When I started cooking more seriously again in college, I found myself dependent on discount grocery stores and occasionally a specialty food shop (at the time known to me as the famous Ukrop’s, Richmond VA’s brilliant equivalent to Whole Foods) to supply my kitchen with meats, produce and the like. My affair with grocery shopping [...]

I was first introduced to Steak Au Poivre in the Summer of 2000 when swimming and training in Auckland, NZ.  After one afternoon practice, several of my teammates and I wandered through the city streets from our hotel and found ourselves at a small french restaurant, almost hidden off of an alley-like street.  Ravenous for [...]