Jenn Garbee

It's hardly surprising that a cookbook that begins with a pig slaughter and ends with trying to sneak a whole ham past airport security (TSA officer: "Is this human?") had us hooked from the word "ham." Ham, An Obsession with the Hindquarter by the culinary duo Bruce Weinstein and Mark......

Trade shows like this weekend's Natural Products Expo West in Anaheim are ideal for studying the brilliant beginnings and soon-to-be lifeless remains of capitalism. It's here that you can almost taste product success in the the tiniest nibbles of caramelized peanut and sea salt-sprinkled milk chocolate bars, which inevitably will......

When Melkon Khosrovian and Litty Mathew decided to launch Crusoe rums, the Monrovia couple knew they had months of tinkering ahead before settling on just the right flavor profile for the light and dark rums. But they were certain about one thing from the start -- the rums had to......

There's a new tequila in town, and it's going to set you back a lot more than a bottle of Cuervo. At $250, Casa Dragones is pricier than any of the artisan tequilas that you'll find at Wine Expo, our favorite north of the Border shop to score sipping-worthy tequilas......

If Olympic figure skating hopefuls begin training as toddlers, at what age do future chefs first experiment with their peanut butter sandwich filling-to-bread ratios? For this week's Chef Family Recipes, Squid Ink spoke with Jessica Goin, sister of Suzanne Goin, who is among the semifinalists in the just-announced James Beard......

Cliff Wright's latest cookbook includes bowls of Nicaraguan chayote, Croatian cabbage and Ecuadorian peanut soup. But not to be missed is his good old chicken noodle, a time-consuming recipe that involves making the noodles by hand. Wright introduces the recipe by recounting the history of chicken noodle soup, including its......

Sure, winning several James Beard awards gets you all kinds of press and praise, not to mention a lovely collection of shiny gold refrigerator-worthy medals. As Clifford A. Wright, the Santa Monica-based author of the recently released The Best Soups in the World will attest, you also get to make......

As a kid growing up in Carmel, Nick Roberts, the chef-owner of Beechwood and Hudson House with his wife and chef-partner Brooke Williamson, spent more time perfecting his onion chopping technique than his surfing moves. "I'm not Italian but I was raised by Italians," he says. After his parents divorced......

Vodka is defined by U.S. law as "without distinctive character, aroma, taste or color." Delicious. So Squid Ink was rather intrigued when a bottle of Karlsson's Gold vodka arrived on our doorstep this week, with a teaser claiming the spirit is made from seven potato varieties from Cape Bjäre, a......

Two waiters didn't show up for their shift, the rookie line cook spilled vinegar on the $500 truffle, and Kogi just had to park a few feet from the valet stand. How do chefs cope when Saturday night's dinner service turns into a Kitchen Nightmares episode? Sometimes they pour themselves......