Today we are going to talk about High End Cars, Premium Jewelry, Owner’s Box Stadium Seats and Pots and Pans. Okay, we’ll we’re really only going to cover those last two: Pots and Pans but I think you will find it useful. Hexclad! Staub Enameled! La Creuset! Made In Cookware! Celebrity Chef Sets like Guy…
It’s 11:30PM on December 31st, 1973, right in the middle of The Golden Age of Pompous Dinning. My Mom is handling front of house stuff as Hostess, my sister is working the coat room and the future Chef Hacker is still only a 16 year old weekend line cook who’s shift just ended after serving…
Some folks love them and others would rather endure an ice bath in winter than eat leftovers. This should be an interesting discussion.
Dateline: Somewhere in the 1960’s My Aunt Shirley makes a few dozen of her legendary Cream Puffs for a holiday dinner she is hosting. She tents the several dozen puffs with aluminum foil and sets them on her kitchen counter to rest until dessert. My Uncle Bill arrives and surreptitiously reaches under the aluminum foil…
If you’ve spent any time at the Chef Hacker Kitchen website or YouTube page you may know that I have an early model Ducane Grill that I absolutely love. I bought it in 1997 and I’ve been using it several times a week, winter and summer, for the last 25 plus years! But what I…
I had lunch at a local diner yesterday. I’ve been there before. In fact, I’ve been there many times over a period of almost 30 years. On my first visit to the property I dined in a traditional looking diner car that may have served as the artist’s model for a Rockwell painting. Several years…
Yes, that IS me being man-handled by Donnie Wahlberg in an episode of CBS’ TV show “Blue Bloods”. So how does something like this happen? Well, if you live in or near New York City and you want to be on Blue Bloods or several other NY area productions you can sign up with Central…
