Rufus Blooter

Sous vide usually ends up as one step of several. There are exceptions: salmon is a nice single step. Chicken breast for chicken salad needs...

I've had my sous vide setup since July. I use it frequently. It's been a good purchase so far. So what have I learned? Vegetab...

Recently went skiing and at the start of the week it was shockingly cold. Before it warmed up and dumped a bunch of lovely fresh snow on ...

oven ready John's Stewart's tantrum about Chicago style pizza was funny but really dumb. People seem to get hung up on the fact ...

or possibly moron food safety: I'm really not bothered. I have never gotten sick from my own cooking and very, very rarely from restau...

I don't remember where I found this chart [apologies, kudos, and thanks to the originator] but it illustrates a key concept in cooki...

For Thanksgiving this year I cooked the turkey breasts sous vide, to rave reviews and enthusiastic overconsumption. For years I've been ...

I wanted to make a nice chocolate dessert for one of our Thanksgiving guests who is highly nut-allergic but I could not find any brand of ch...

In for a penny, in for a pound: went to Covent Garden last night to see our first opera and pulled out all the stops. We aimed for maximu...

I've identified a key management skill: Tactical Forgetting. There are some things a manager doesn't need to know, and if a team acc...

In honor of JustJoeP , some wildlife photography. (1) Get tasty caterpillar for youngsters. (2) Test voltage. Why yes, we DO want ...

http://xkcd.com/1252/ Two problems. XKCD perfectly describes one, which is that a relative risk increase is just about useless if yo...