Monthly Archive: March 2011

Egypt: A Culture of Contrasts

Started off with a lot of apprehension today, but it evaporated like the fog after an hour wandering around Coptic relics in Cairo.  There are so many things I wonder about here, about how...

Giza: Desert City

Imagine a huge sandbox, swirling and rocky, out of which huge, massively organized, contradictory structures arise.  Everything is the color of sand, and yet it is still not warm despite the sun has past...

Cairo, via Istanbul

A day full of new. Of shifting, moving, adapting and finally settling.  Left ORD Friday night, and woke up 10.5 hours later in Istanbul not knowing what to expect.  We checked a couple bags...

Ask Chef: Stainless Steel Cookware

Q: Chef, I used a stainless steel pan to make bacon last weekend, and ended up with perfect bacon but a grimed up pan.  All the scrubbing in the world doesn’t seem to remove...