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…a series of adventures

Posted by Michael J Cirino on Nov 15th, 2008 | 0 Comments

Recently we decided to embark on a series of adventures. It was our hope to learn through emulation and execution of what would be some of the most exquisite food in the world, cooked by two of our generation’s greatest chefs. It was on September 17th, 2008 when Grant Achatz and Thomas Keller announced to [...]

A Stark Meal

Posted by Michael J Cirino on Nov 10th, 2008 | 0 Comments

At the end of October we sat down with our good friends Alex and Aki from Ideas in Food and wrote up a menu for a seven course meal that we had been kicking around for a little while. It was a difficult balancing act getting four such divergently creative minds to come together to [...]

Brunch in Boston

Posted by Michael J Cirino on Nov 6th, 2008 | 0 Comments

Brunch is always one of those meals you love to eat but never think about cooking yourself. It requires getting up early after a long night of doing things to yourself that were probably inappropriate and then cutting stuff with sharp things and cooking things near hot stuff. It is really the realm of Dad’s [...]

Harvest Dinner – New English

Posted by Michael J Cirino on Nov 5th, 2008 | 1 Comments

Harvesting a Dinner from a New English Harvest So I have a good friend of mine, who occasionally sleeps on my couch and plays music for me. He lives in a house in Boston, a refined part of Boston called Lower Alston, which, unfortunately is above most of Alston and is one of the neighborhoods [...]

The New York Times

Posted by Michael J Cirino on Oct 15th, 2008 | 0 Comments

After long delay we are proud to display some additional images from the boar dinner we held on Saturday, August 15th of this fine year two thousand and eight, in the municipality of Homer, NY. I will attempt to preserve brevity in our hopes to just dazzle you with the brilliant photography of Jennifer May [...]

Dinner Theatre

Posted by Michael J Cirino on Oct 8th, 2008 | 0 Comments

About a month ago I was relaxing with a friend of mine named Jonathan over a long late summer weekend, drinking Korean beers that taste enormously like Miller High Life and enjoying the lack of breeze. We were sitting in my back yard, watching my dog viciously lie in the sun and while talking about [...]

Irving Saladino

Posted by Michael J Cirino on Sep 16th, 2008 | 0 Comments

Panama was probably the best vacation I have gone on in a while. There are many reasons for this but the primary two are: I had practically no travel responsibility; insomuch as all I had to do was wake up and be in paradise, eat, nap and then go to the beach. I got to [...]

NY Times – Article

Posted by Michael J Cirino on Aug 29th, 2008 | 0 Comments

A couple of weeks ago we spent a weekend in the country and had a feast based around a wild boar. The New York Times was gracious enough to come and write about it, here is a link to the beautiful photography and words that told the story of Lewis and our gastronmic appreciation of him. More [...]