Archive - Line Cook Chronicles

Musings on a special ingredient

May 31 •

March 2025

I am a line cook

Every day I write a list Iced coffee, check resos, ibuprofen Dice, cut, sear Roasting bones, bending over, twisting Mistreated back protests, keep going…

Mar 24 •

February 2025

Potluck Dinners

The 70s were different.

Feb 20 •

January 2025

Creativity that Inspires

Things I find inspiring.

Jan 17 •

July 2024

Puerto Rican Rice Recollections

Jul 17, 2024 •

May 2023

Beans, Beans, the magical fruit.

A case study in humility.

May 30, 2023 •

March 2022

A typical day isn't typical

Random notes on random thoughts.

Mar 23, 2022 •

February 2022

Rice by any other name...

Arroz con Gandules

Feb 16, 2022 •

January 2022

A study in Balance

Jan 27, 2022 •

What's happening?

So I didn’t send out a newsletter last week, I gave myself some time to adjust to a new schedule.

Jan 19, 2022 •

What's in a name?

Why is it that a lot of people want to be referred to as chefs?

Jan 7, 2022 •

December 2021

New Year's Eve 1997

When I got on the subway it smelled as if someone had been using it as a bathroom.

Dec 31, 2021 •

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