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My Take on Basque Cheesecake: Creamy Chaos, Controlled
(The picture is from La Vasca, for me the best I’ve ever tried, the recipe is a take on AMA’s Cheesecake. Both are inspired by a crossover of La Viña’s style and Hilario Arbelaitz’s legendary recipe.) Check out our cheesecake podcasts episode 1 and episode 2 The first thing you should know about Basque cheesecake is that it’s not some centuries-old recipe […]
Raw and Rare: A Steak Tartare Expedition Across Continents
My earliest memories of tartare come from Venezuela, where my parents would take me to this restaurants where a waiter at the table served up this finely seasoned, slightly spicy raw meat mix. If there’s tartare on the menu, I’ll have it. It just makes sense to me. I don’t like the grotesque, ketchup-rich, soccer […]
Boston’s Decadence
My friends from New York often tell me that I have a liking for Boston because it has a “European feel.” I’m not quite sure how to take that. Boston’s old colonial-style brick buildings, take you back to scenes of HBO’s ‘John Adams’ when it was the USA’s capital and the Boston Massacre occurred. But […]