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Legacy
I’ve never grown older before, so forgive me if you have and I’m just being obvious. The older I get the more I think about the balance between the entropic impermanence of all things and the human urge to continue creating and planning and hoping in the face of that impermanence. I think it is
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How to be a Photographer.
Three dSLRs Four GoPro action cams. Two tripods. One flash. Nine lenses. A fistful of memory cards. Drawers packed with gadgets, clips, hooks, meters, caps, filters, batteries, microfibre cloths, and a random assortment of other camera accessories. And in 2021 I took a lot of photos like this… on my iPhone. What do you wish
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Simple Pan Basics
I continue to look for interestingly complex recipes to cook and share on this blog (though I’ll admit this is neither a major theme nor the sole purpose of this site to share recipes) and occasionally I’ll post one. But then other times I like to retreat to something more simple and remind my readers
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Strip this Pan, Part Four
In short, and to conclude this short series of posts, the effort to strip and re-season the twenty-inch reversible grill was a modest success. In the end, it was a combination of elbow grease and chemical oven cleaner that seemed to net me the best result of the multiple methods I tried. I found that
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La Cocotte est Neuve
I’m not sure how the rest of the world fares, but in Canada we have this side effect of those nearby American holidays wherein (despite celebrating local Thanksgiving a month ago … the right way!) we still get this post-Thanksgiving (American version) event called Black Friday falling out of their long weekend. I’ve lately not