Bill St. John has written and taught about restaurants, food, cooking and wine for more than 40 years, locally for Rocky Mountain News, The Denver Post and KCNC-TV Channel 4, nationally for Chicago Tribune Newspapers and Wine & Spirits magazine. The Denver native lives in his hometown.
Contact Bill St. John at bsjpost@gmail.com.
Whatap Easter without a haunch of ham or leg of lamb? (For those born since Watergate, “haunch” is a cool old term for “large end of animal meat with a...
Many, if not most, foodstuffs in other countries take their name from their place of origin, such as practically any cheese from Europe (as do the continentap wines).
Excluding lentils, most dried legumes cook best after a night of soaking (brining, really) in deep salty water, three tablespoons non-iodized salt for every four quarts of water.
For however much we (claim to) shun it, we appreciate fat in our cooking and eating ever too much to abandon it completely. Nor, really, should we. The reasons alone...
However you slice it, homemade carpaccio isn’t easy. This simplest of preparations -- super-thinly-sliced something, dressed — isn’t simple when you pick up your knife and get to cutting.