Month: June 2018

Food and Film: The Last Magnificent – Jeremiah Tower

Jeremiah Tower - Pre-Superstar It is fitting that this post celebrates a documentary Anthony Bourdain produced, before his death stunned...

In My Neighborhood: Precision Knife Sharpening Service

Yes, Virginia There Is A Real Knife Sharpening Service High on the list of laments when La Cuisine closed and...

You Need This: Cutting Edge from Messermeister

Why The Cuisinettes Chose Messermeister Joe Raffa was La Cuisine's knife skills instructor, and in his off hours (!) he...

Recipe: Doris Canfield’s Tomato Aspic

Travel Alert: Scopello, Sicily – The Anti-Disney Resort

Ocean's Twelve Was Here In all my scheming to go to Sicily, I had never heard of Scopello.  Once I...