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How one decides to roast a whole cow

Posted by Michael J Cirino on Sep 10th, 2012 | 0 Comments

It all started on a simple, if not typical night.  Winter had already made its final grand gesture for the season, leaving a frozen tundra of grime in its wake, before making its annual hiatus to the Southern Hemisphere.  The streets stayed littered with refuse, frozen into piles of browning and crusty snow, streaked with more »

A Casual Sunday Lunch

Posted by Michael J Cirino on May 3rd, 2011 | 49 Comments

On the first of May we hosted a “luncheon” on the L line of the New York City subway. The subway is a familiar place, providing a necessary means of transportation for many New Yorkers. Its stairwells, turnstiles, platforms, trains and unpredictable elements are all-too-familiar to its dedicated patrons. One begins to know the exact more »

Thyme Brush

Posted by Michael J Cirino on Feb 23rd, 2011 | 0 Comments

A simple solution to a problem that we hadn’t known we needed to solve. Lost in the striking rush of action in the kitchen of Norwood, I stumbled through the final steps that I needed to perform before our me al was to begin. Three floors above us, forty locally-made delft china settings, neatly wrapped more »

Corn – Los Angeles

Posted by Michael J Cirino on Nov 23rd, 2010 | 2 Comments

It is our distinct pleasure to announce our next series of events in Los Angeles. With this adventure we will be hosting two types of events, please follow the links below to get more information about these upcoming dinners. Cooking workshops – Half-day cooking workshop at Surfase Thursday, December 2nd Friday, December 3rd Corn Tasting more »

A year ago

Posted by Michael J Cirino on Jul 1st, 2010 | 2 Comments

One year ago I woke up not feeling great. I had just returned from Los Angeles and a speaking date at the Dwell on Design Conference. I had arrived the morning before, after an overnight flight and flew headlong into a twelve-hour workday. As morning broke, a slight shiver crawled over my skin, which I more »

Italian Christmas 2009

Posted by Michael J Cirino on Jan 8th, 2010 | 0 Comments

Like many an Italian-reared-child, I grew up learning to cook on the heels of my grandparents and parents. Every year, in honor of my grandparents, a razor, a shiny knife prepares two meals around the holidays. Christmas Eve and Christmas Day feasts mark the pinnacle of traditional Italian cookery — even for those of us more »

Liquid Centered Meatballs

Posted by Michael J Cirino on Nov 20th, 2009 | 4 Comments

Daniel and I designed these meatballs with Josh Ozersky to compete in the 2009 NY Wine and Food Festival Meatball Madness. It was essential that we include all three main meats in our meatball for flavor but instead of mixing the ground meat together we allowed each meat to express itself  in a different layer more »

24 hours of Le Mans

Posted by Michael J Cirino on Jun 24th, 2009 | 0 Comments

A time lapse video of our 24 hours of cooking this past weekend. Thank you very much to Colin McCabe and Mike Lee / Studiofeast for putting this together. Thank you to everyone who made this possible, especially those at 90N 5th for the space! www.aptsandlofts.com More to follow.