Sunday, September 30, 2018

MTN Venice Ramen

https://www.instagram.com/p/BmzRtCcFE0l/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=aorsz6xtsx8z

little rocket man closes / a tribute to toast

one of my favorite menus from the now-closed little rocket man.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BnWUP90AJ5A/?taken-by=littlerocketmandurham

the initial ideas for the menu were:

Carolina Jammer - ricotta, jam, herbs
Avo - Avocado, masala, almonds
Pan con Tomate - Cherry Tomatoes, olive oil, flake salt
Scuttlebutt - hard boiled egg, pimenton aioli, pickles, herb mix
(tribute to saltie)
Mama's Boy - Butter, Cinnamon, Sugar
use unsliced bricohe, unsliced country loaf

Wednesday, September 5, 2018

To Be a Baker

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Chad Robertson

To Be a Baker

what does it take?

a personality type.
a calm neurotic

like chad robertson
tall and rangey
to be a baker
waking before daybreak, working physically hard before daybreak,
it's a push to the last loaf,
here you stand before the oven, to stand underground and bake bagels,
carry the flour back centuries to
your ancestors, with
poppy seed, sesame, and flax.  

It’s a blue planet,
Powered by calories derived from bread,
The technological revolutions,
In our Modernity,
There was bread,
Religious warfare,
And the bread as ritual.

An evolution,
Of bread and of society,
From bourgeosie to poverty,
In every neighborhood and shtetl.