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SHORT TV I use Roku and Amazon Prime to stream when I can: • Escape to River Cottage and Return to River Cottage—This is by far my favorite food series, and Escape to River Cottage is the strongest. Absolutely wonderful. • Heston Blumenthal’s “In Search of Perfection” on YouTube. • Top Chef season 6, episode 13: “Goodbye to Vegas”—Features Thomas K
... See moreTimothy Ferriss • The 4-Hour Chef: The Simple Path to Cooking Like a Pro, Learning Anything, and Living the Good Life

Monday? It's merchandizing night, when whatever is left over from the weekend is used up, and hopefully sold for money.
Anthony Bourdain • Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
In Naples they base their ingredient quantities on one liter of water, whereas in French baking we base ingredients on 1 kilogram (2.2 pounds) of flour. This turned on its head my French baker’s method (and my mind-set) of mixing flour and water, letting it rest for 15 to 20 minutes (what we call the autolyse period), then adding salt and yeast, th
... See moreKen Forkish • The Elements of Pizza
Shallots are one of the things — a basic prep item in every mise-en-place — which make restaurant food taste different from your food.
Anthony Bourdain • Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Mise-en-place transformed Ruhlman’s life outside the kitchen. For a while he ran everywhere, trying to maximize every moment. But what Ruhlman retained from the kitchen was its sense of unrelenting honesty about time and space, success and failure. Good chefs and cooks feared and dreaded failure.
Dan Charnas • Work Clean: The Life-Changing Power of Mise-En-Place to Organize Your Life, Work and Mind
