Gaston — After a lifetime of drinking, selling and cooking for the pleasures of the table, finally I met the land of fabled vines…the first of a series of explorations. This is the first wine I drank from v...
Portland — We are all searching for our tribe whenever circumstances propel this one & only life we each & every unique one of us carry, like a hobo knapsack of our dreams & achievements & all th...
Tokyo — 定 tei – fixed, constant / 食 shoku – food, meal Most restaurants in Tokyo are hard-coded to satisfy a specific person or group of people, at a specific moment in their existence, with just the right...
...in a meadow of vines, greeting the unexpected, the weird & the wonderful.
What happens when a New Orleans chef finds pirate wine & Szechuan food side-by-side? Joyful mischief ensues...
Literally, a flight into the Willamette wine country begins...
I have my reasons for not eating, nor as a chef for not cooking, the sensual chameleon of the sea, whom we call the octopus.
Heads down, hands and eyes on the katsu, at the Kanda teishoku peep show.