Meals Prepared By A Chef Who

...trained in a lumber camp not an Art College.

George Jonas: Cooking lessons from a time traveller

Lumber Camp Cooking-$4.95 + tip

Art College Haute Cuisine - $49.95 + Gratuity

I don’t cook, but I like eating and reading, probably in that order, so I curl up with a cookbook once in a while. Don’t take this literally. I seldom curl up with anything these days, but I find a well-written cookbook almost as enjoyable as a well-prepared meal and significantly healthier.

People may be equal, but cuisines definitely aren’t. Neither are periods. A gourmet should travel not only geographically but in time. Ideally, I’d take my breakfast in Edwardian England and my lunch (except it would be called dinner) in Prince Metternich’s Austria. For a supper of game, I’d go back to the 18th century, and for a supper of seafood, across the Labrador strait to Newfoundland.
Have you ever had steamer clams and a dish of seal meat, washed down with callibogus? No? If you’ve delicate taste buds, it’s just as well, but if you’re looking for a gastronomical experience, you’ve missed something.

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