posted by Dave Arnold The Results: If you don’t know Ike Jime, read our Ike Jime saga in Ike Jime Part 1 here. When we left off, Chef Suzuki had sashimied up a bunch of fish for us to taste. Unfortunately, the fish was really too fresh. The oldest fish in the bunch had been dead only […]
posted by Dave Arnold Ike Jime is a Japanese fish killing technique. The spinal cord and main blood vessels are severed at the head and tail, a long needle is pushed down the spinal cord, and the fish is placed in ice water to bleed out. Several months ago, Dave Chang of Momofuku fame called […]
posted by Dave Arnold  You’ve no doubt noticed that when you properly shake an alcoholic drink, the parts of your shaker are drawn tightly together by an internal vacuum force. Why does this happen and how big is the force? A couple of cool things are happening when you shake. First, the air that’s in your […]
posted by Dave Arnold It’s apple season! Really, apple season starts earlier than you think. It started almost a month ago already. Next week we’ll start posting our tasting notes on this year’s crop. This is the first of many posts on apples. We love apples. Apples are delicious. Apples are worth close study. Nils […]
posted by Mindy Lvoff As I was discussing how to describe (and understand) “countercurrent chromatography” (CCC) with Dave and our friend, Philip Preston of Polyscience (who stopped by FCI today to hang out for a while), Philip summarized the process as “just another flavor separation technique…” Â Easy to say when you’re a genius, but I […]
