Michael Ruhlman's Blog, page 72

Awareness In the Kitchen

This is the last of the whiteonricecouple's video we did at the end of the BlogHer conference in San Francisco last fall. They were off the cuff experimental food and cooking editorials, and this one came on the tail of my linking Richard Wrangham's contention that it was the cooking of food that gave us [...]

Lessons of Guacamole

This is not just a guacamole recipe and preparation, it's a broader lesson about aromatics and acid and using seasonal foods.  It's avocado season, so they're really good now!  And they will be all summer long.  Avocados are one of my favorite fruits; they're kind of like butter, a ready made sauce—all you have to [...]

How To Make Guacamole

This is not just a guacamole recipe and preparation, it's a broader lesson about aromatics and acid and using seasonal foods.  It's avocado season, so they're really good now!  And they will be all summer long.  Avocados are one of my favorite fruits; they're kind of like butter, a ready made sauce—all you have to [...]

Achatz: Life, On the Line

Two very good memoirs have been published by chefs I admire and whose food I have eaten many times with great satisfaction, though the experiences are wildly different.  Gabrielle Hamilton, chef of Prune has published Blood, Bones and Butter, which I reviewed for The Wall Street Journal. It was preceded by a much talked about, [...]

The Breslin Pig Foot

©photos by Donna Turner Ruhlman—see more at: Ruhlmanphotography.com When Donna found herself in NYC at the Ace Hotel last fall, she spent a couple nights in the Breslin kitchen watching executive chef April Bloomfield, Breslin chef de cuisine Peter Cho, and crew rock (that's Peter and April top right). The trotter caught her eye.  It's [...]

Stock Convictions

Last week I posted on Twitter that leaving chicken stock (recipe below) out on the stovetop all week was fine and I got all kinds of mystified tweets about how could this possibly be safe. It is, and it's a great way to have stock on hand all week for a quick sauce, a poaching [...]

Citrus

Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman Long enamored of black and white, my wife and collaborator has been working on a series of food shots featuring not food so much as the color of food. If you like her work, let her know, spread this link on facebook or twitter, or have a look at her [...]

Orange

Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman Long enamored of black and white, my wife and collaborator has been working on a series of food shots featuring not food so much as the color of food. If you like her work, let her know or have a look at her gallery at ruhlmanphotography.com. Update: In response to a [...]

Purple

Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman Long enamored of black and white, my wife and collaborator has been working on a series of food shots featuring not food so much as the color of food. If you like her work, let her know, spread this link on facebook or twitter, or have a look at her [...]

Blue

Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman Long enamored of black and white, my wife and collaborator has been working on a series of food shots featuring not food so much as the color of food. If you like her work, let her know or have a look at her gallery at ruhlmanphotography.com. Update: In response to a [...]