Category: FRANK
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A FRANK Tale: Side B
Photos in this blog appear courtesy of Christian Eggers, unless otherwise stated. It has been 1 year, 1 month, and 2 weeks since I blogged last. I’m lame. Actually, I’m just incredibly busy. FRANK’s momentum has skyrocketed (along with its popularity…we’ve got almost 8,000 people on our list now) and it has kept me so…
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Savory Goat and Wild Mushroom Hand Pies
Empanadas, pasties, hand pies, meat patties, clangers, sfhias, kreatopitas…little meat pockets surrounded completely in crust and small enough to fit in the hand are popular across the earth, from Natchitoches to Nigeria, and from Jamaica to Jaipur. We recently served these rustic goat hand pies at a FRANK dinner, to nearly rabid acclaim. The flavor…
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Cooking with Tobacco
As popular as tobacco is in this world, and has been for centuries, it’s a little strange to me that we don’t cook with it more often. Granted, I don’t smoke cigarettes (though I’ll enjoy the rare cigar or pipe on special occasions), but tobacco has a wonderful, deep, earthy, hay-like flavor which can be…
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Tobacco Chocolate Ice Cream
Tobacco is little-used in cooking, which is a shame, because it has a marvelous flavor. Tobacco contains nicotine, a stimulant that is deadly in the right dose, most folks shy away from cooking with it. But the National Institutes of Health has done plenty of research about nicotine toxicity, and I published an article that helps consolidate…
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Buttermilk Sweet Potato Ice Cream
At FRANK recently, we did an Americana menu, and needed to conceive an ice cream to go with our bourbon pecan pie. Chef Jennie suggested a sweet potato ice cream, but that just sounded too sweet to me. After all, pecan pie is very sweet, and to pair it with a super-sweet ice cream would…
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A FRANK Tale: Passion
(Most images in this post are courtesy of Stephanie M. Casey at Real Fine Food, a blogger who often attends our dinners to photograph and blast them onto social media. Find her on Facebook and Instagram also. Thanks, Stephanie!) FRANK has been getting an uncomfortable amount of press recently, and while we shouldn’t complain…(all the…