For those who have yet to know the background let me give it as briefly as I can. Charlie graduated from college in Madison, Wisconsin and took a job working as a busboy in a restaurant in Lake Forest, Illinois where I was the Executive Chef. It was the fall…
Category: Time Pieces
Smoking Fish and Listening to ‘Layla’
Last week my good friend Amy Drew Thompson … who also is the Food Editor of the Orlando Sentinel asked me if I had a memories of smoked fish I’d like to share with her readers. Amy a.k.a. ‘AD’ is person of journalistic energy like few I’ve known. She loves…
Miami. A Poem for Her
Miami. You and I meet each daybreak with Café con Leche and a vow of silence. We are old Lovers who became old Friends too. You and this dark brew fire my engines as I conjure the next recipe I dedicate to life lived in your warm arms… of so…
On Fusion Cooking
“The fires of fusion are coming.” —Norman Van Aken, On Fusion Cooking 1988 35 + years ago I wrote the words above sitting in a small, unpainted wooden building in Key West, our southernmost of the contiguous forty-eight states. The building had most recently housed a woman’s hair parlor. It…