Cooking Is About Creativity This is probably a topic I’m going to burn out on with this blog, but for me, cooking is about creativity. When I was in college, I had a cinematography professor who said that rules are often meant to be broken. That has stayed with me ever since. Of course, he also said we can't break the laws, like the law of gravity, but rules are different. We can absolutely break the rule of thirds, or whatever creative rule is standing in our way. For me, th

The Martini Problem It frustrates me whenever I go to a bar and my drink comes out wrong. I understand that knowing every cocktail in the world is almost impossible, but how do you mess up a martini? To be fair, martini drinkers speak their own language. Dry, wet, dirty, extra dirty, shaken, stirred—everyone seems to have a different preference. So I understand why it can get confusing. In this blog, I’ll teach you how to make the Golden Martini while I enjoy one myself. What

I know some of you would rather be struck by lightning than eat blue cheese. And that’s because you’ve never tried the right recipe. I know this because I used to be one of you. Back when chicken tenders and fries were the greatest meal on Earth, I thought blue cheese was one of those foods people pretended to like. It was too strong, too funky, and frankly, a little suspicious. It wasn’t until much later that I realized the problem wasn’t blue cheese itself. I simply hadn’t