January 2012
4 posts
Birds, birds and more birds with Cap't Dennis and...
Last week I took a few of the cooks from Tertulia out to eastern Long Island for an early morning of pheasant hunting. Getting up at 5:30 for cooks who often are usually going to sleep at that hour, is tough, but I commend the guys, no one overslept and the only one who was late, was me (as usual.) Our friend and brilliant wine-maker, Pepe Raventos, joined us. Pepe recently moved to New York...
November 2009
12 posts
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Tunis lamb slaughter in Vermont
I had the incredible honor of spending the weekend with friends and family in Vermont on my mother’s farm, slaughtering, dressing and cooking lambs that one of my oldest friends is raising. The breed is a heritage breed, originally brought over from north Africa, then crossed with other breeds as a meat lamb. We slaughtered four 9 month old lambs early on Saturday morning, strung them up...
October 2009
1 post
