A blog about food and cooking by Chris Norris
Day 5: CIA Boot Camp 9/28/2007 It’s graduation day for the boot camp crowd as well as the graduating class of regular students at the CIA. The school has a different feel today – less frenetic and busy – but maybe that’s just the Friday […]
Day 4: CIA Boot Camp 9/27/2007 I’m in the CIA library with only one more day of “cooking college” to go! Tomorrow is graduation day for the current senior class, and proud parents and grandparents are swarming the campus, taking tours, and creating long lines […]
Day 3: CIA Boot Camp 9/26/2007 Woo-hoo! I got coffee today BEFORE class started and actually understood some of the first hour of lecture… My job today was to make spaetzle (a german ‘pasta’) and a tomato herb sauce, both of which came out pretty […]
Day 2: CIA Boot Camp 9/25/2007 Today started early after a 5 hour night and no time for coffee before class. It’s clear that the whole California thing of showing up 10 minutes or so after the scheduled start time is NOT how things are […]
Day 1: CIA Boot Camp 9/24/2007 Wow, what a day – orientation at 6 AM and no slow down for the next 16 hours! Today was spent learning and perfecting knife skills that we inflicted on onions, garlic, celery, carrots, potatoes, mango, oranges, grapefruit and […]
Day 0: CIA Boot Camp It’s 10 PM New York time, and I’m watching the clock with increasing agitation since I have to be up at 5 AM tomorrow morning for a 6 AM orientation meeting. This wouldn’t normally be such a big deal, but […]
One Tequila, Two Tequila, Three Tequila, Floor! While in Cabo I had the chance to catch up on my tequilas again. Tequila is made by distilling a syrup of blue agave (a big spiky plant that looks like an overgrown aloe plant) and is only […]
Cabo Wabo A month or so ago, we took a weekend and blasted off to Los Cabos (“the capes”) in Mexico! From the SF Bay Area, Cabo is a direct flight that takes about two and half hours, not much different than traveling to Denver. […]
Big ol’ jet airliner … I’m getting ready to travel to New York next weekend for CIA Boot Camp, and have been thinking about the mess that is called air travel in the US. Isn’t it strange that essentially no new form of transportation has […]
Shabu-Shabu While eating at Restaurant Michael Mina recently, I had the opportunity to try the French Chef version of shabu-shabu. If you haven’t experienced shabu-shabu, you have missed out on a true delicacy. The dish is Japanese, and is essentially very thinly sliced Kobe beef […]