Fight 4 Taste

One of my friends at work today said, I don't think you guys eat anything normal. At first that is an easy statement to accept , but as I think about it it makes me realize why I am cooking in the first place. I actually want the food that I am cooking to become my normal. If I can see the progression of Trying a recipe and progressing to getting good at it and developing my own style then I can own it. Then i have acheived normal. Bibimbap is like that for me. In a subliminal quest to eat better I need the flavors to be like snapping life out of the jaws of death! people like George Stella and Juan Carlos on the Food Network told us many years ago that if we wanted to change our diet we could actually enjoy food even after you've made drastic changes to improve your health. I think we do eat normally. Eating a box of Kraft Mac and cheese (which I did try a forkful one time) would be the weirdest most NOT normal thing I could eat. So, what is "normal"? It is differen...

One of my friends at work today said, I don't think you guys eat anything normal. At first that is an easy statement to accept , but as I think about it it makes me realize why I am cooking in the first place. I actually want the food that I am cooking to become my normal. If I can see the progression of Trying a recipe and progressing to getting good at it and developing my own style then I can own it. Then i have acheived normal. Bibimbap is like that for me. In a subliminal quest to eat better I need the flavors to be like snapping life out of the jaws of death! people like George Stella and Juan Carlos on the Food Network told us many years ago that if we wanted to change our diet we could actually enjoy food even after you've made drastic changes to improve your health. I think we do eat normally. Eating a box of Kraft Mac and cheese (which I did try a forkful one time) would be the weirdest most NOT normal thing I could eat. So, what is "normal"? It is differe...

This summer while camping I took on something I never thought I would, reading the novel, "Julie and Julia". When Donna first mentioned it to me, that the campground office had a book exchange library and this Julie Powell piece was available, I declined. This was because I saw the movie. Later that day, while at the office, I took the book down and began to read the reviews. It sounded abrasively riotous, complicated, rudely sarcastic and witty. In other words, I was beginning to think maybe the movie only shared a title with the book. I decided to try it. I was right, the screenwriters told a completely different story. They " Brady Bunched" Julie's story. The Julie Powell in the book was unstable, often selfish, envious, injured and direction-less. So, I concluded, she was human. I gave real Julie a try. Most know, the author decided to cook her way through Julia Child's "Mastering the Art of French Cooking." 524 recipes in 365 days. It seeme...

In 1999 a spark happened. Korean Garden in Junction City, Kansas. My National Guard unit, the 744th Transportation Company was running special missions with our trucks. It seems that the military, during Desert Storm had made one of the most shocking decisions of the entire conflict, by which I mean they forced us (surprisingly not at gunpoint) to wash our army trucks and trailers in saltwater. In the years that followed, not surprisingly to anyone breathing air, the trucks were categorically rusting out and were catching fire and electronically shorting out due to widespread corrosion in the electrical systems.  So, 8 years later, the state of NH found a shop in Saginaw, TX to refit the tractors and a maintenance company at Fort Riley Kansas to refit the trailers. 60 trucks and 122 trailers needed transporting. We arrived at Fort Riley in the afternoon and changed into civilian clothes. We called a taxi to take us into Junction City just a few miles outside of the post. Riley h...