Chef Bolek

When I saw the beer on the board, I was skeptical. A Cinnamon Bun Imperial Stout. I am a big fan of Imperial Stouts, but I am also tradi...

As I stood before the seafood counter of my local Korean supermarket, a certain fish caught my attention.  The fish had been cut into ste...

Over the next few months, I will be doing a lot of traveling for work, which means that I won't be doing a lot of cooking.  The trave...

Last year, there was a time when I was making many different oyster shooters.  It all started with the Oyster Shooters with Tomato, Lime ...

One caveat at the outset of this post ... this is the very first time that I have smoked ribs of any kind.  While there are quite a few S...

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wagh'nagl fhtgan ("In his house at R'lyeh, Cthulhu waits dreaming").  ...

I would have never guessed that cranberries have a dark side . But, those berries do.  It is a story of corporate hegemony, regulator...

Vindaloo is one of my favorite dishes in Indian cuisine; and, as it turns out, it is one of those dishes that did not originate in India....

The oyster stout has always perplexed me.  I am not a brewmaster. I have never brewed a beer. However, I have shucked many an oyster.  An...

For a while, it seemed that the trendy thing for trendy restaurants to do was to offer a small plate or appetizer of blistered shishito p...