Project Food Blog 2010, Round 8: Sugar Pie Pumpkin Cheesecake, Gingerbread Cookie Crust and Bourbon Eggnog Anglaise

The eggnog anglaise contains bourbon. You can also add a little bourbon to the whipped cream, if it's been that kind of a year.

Back when I was working as a prep cook at Houston’s Santa Monica, a cracked cheesecake wasn’t necessarily the worst thing in the entire world: It meant that some of the pieces couldn’t be served, and that they would become fair game for the cooks. Of course, for the unfortunate person who actually baked the dessert, it was a little more bitter than sweet, seeing an otherwise beautiful cheesecake suddenly develop an [... read more ...]

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Project Food Blog 2010, Round 7: “Pork Chops & Gravy”

About 10 years ago, I was living in Los Angeles, working at a dying start-up company called the Hollywood Stock Exchange. In 1999, there may have been about 80 employees at HSX, but by 2002, there were only about 20 of us left, occupying a massive, newly-remodeled building that housed about 50 surplus cubicles, all once inhabited by former co-workers. It was all rather surreal, and I have a bazillion bizarre stories about the dumb leading the rich during the dot-com era. But, long story short, when the HSX.com payroll was finally pared down from 20 [... read more ...]

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