Boat | Anchor
Weapons of Mass Disgusting, aka Tasty Fruitcake. Culinary Conversations with Brian Brooks Fruitcake can be so much more than a door stop or boat anchor. Sure, you’ve had a horrible fruitcake. It was probably made with those eerie glow-in -the-dark candied “fruits.” (And “fruit” is a generous word to use.) Why? Why shouldn’t fruitcake be [...]
Teriyaki | Chicken
LBV welcomes Culinary Conversations with Brian Brooks… Chickity China the Chinese Chicken. I love Chinese food. The problem is the buffet. All the spoons and twice as many unwashed hands. The whole proposition gives me a complex. So when Pei Wei won’t do I bust out the wok. And you can too! I made my [...]
Taste | Encounter
Culinary Conversations with Brian Brooks… Taste is a matter of self-discovery. No one but the taster can find that rare combination of flavors that will satisfy. So, when I encounter a new chef armed with a thick book of recipes I search for his incarnation of a food that I dislike. Thus is was with [...]
