posted by Dave Arnold (Hey, what is this SkÃ¥l Project anyway?) We are starting the new year off with a bang. We flew across the country and skoaled country music legend Merle Haggard –one of our musical heros. Readers might remember our excitement at the opportunity to meet Mr. Haggard, expressed here. How do you […]
posted by Dave Arnold Happy New Year. If you are more interested in a bottle of bubbly than in bubbles, perhaps I can interest you in one of our old posts, a tutorial on how to saber a bottle of bubbly. Everyone here at Cooking Issues is a huge fan of bubbles.  Let’s just say we […]
posted by Nastassia Lopez and Dave Arnold (Hey, what is this SkÃ¥l Project anyway?) To celebrate the season of good cheer and good eats, we’ve compiled some of our favorite food-folk skoals. First up, a gang of New York City’s top chefs: And people who like to eat their food and write about it: Too Many Cookies: Making and Shipping FCI’s Holiday Cookies, […]
posted by Dave Arnold Turns out the way we are taught to sauté mushrooms is dead wrong. If you want the highest quality mushrooms what you want to do is soak your mushrooms and then crowd the hell out of them in a pan. Let me explain: We are all told not to wash our mushrooms […]
posted by Dave Arnold A couple of years ago I got interested in alternative chocolates. I wanted to create foods that were hard and shiny like chocolate, melted in your mouth like chocolate, were impeccably smooth like chocolate, but didn’t taste like chocolate. I wanted them to taste like other things – so we made mustard “chocolate†[…]
