Culinaria

Here's a cool video I found via the Chicago Reader. It's of George Gelashvili and Arkady Kats making puri and shoti – Georgian breads – in a toné which is a Georgian brick oven. Kats is the co-owner of Bread ’n’ Bowl Company in Niles, a northern 'burb of Chicago.


Making Georgian puri at Bread 'n' Bowl Company in Niles, IL from mike sula on Vimeo.

If anyone wants to get me a Christmas gift, might I suggest the Ferran Adriá Sferificación Mini Kit?



Adriá is a Spanish chef known for his work in molecular gastronomy, a.k.a. – the applied science of deliciousness. His kit allows one to make perfect spheres of liquids. Think having a piece of roast with balls of gravy on top.

And to round out this culinary post, I read that a book of this woman's recipes has been published:



That's Emma Darwin, wife of Charles. The poor woman had to feed not only her husband as he sussed out evolution, but also seven children and twelve servants. Why a servant or two was not doing the cooking remains a mystery.