by Dave Arnold You need to grind a small amount of spices and your mortar and pestle isn’t handy. You don’t want to clean out your pepper-mill. What are you going to do? Those damn coffee/spice grinders do a crappy job on small quantities. The spices just sit there under the blades. You have to […]
by Dave Arnold Hello all. I just got back from Tales of the Cocktail, the cocktail world’s booze-soaked yearly festival in New Orleans. I will post about the seminar I was in, The Science of Stirring, very soon. In the mean time, if you want to learn some techno-cocktail techniques, Nils and I are doing […]
by Dave Arnold Lime Juice and Simple Agar Clarification. It has been a year since quick agar clarification changed my life.  I was looking for a way to clarify lime juice without the help of a $15,000 rotary evaporator or a $20,000 centrifuge.  Even if you have the equipment, these techniques produce only small quantities. […]
by Dave Arnold This 4th of July weekend I visited family in the town of Truro on Cape Cod –lobster country. I stopped at a local fish and lobster shop and asked the owner how big his biggest lobsters were. The answer shocked me: twenty pounds. “Do you normally get 20 pound lobsters?†I asked […]
by Dave Arnold I recently posted on manna, the stuff that God sent to the Israelites in the Bible. You can read the post here, or read the New York Times article I wrote here. Manna isn’t one single thing, it is a category of foods –sweet to the taste and providential in nature. Most […]
