Bread has always been something we have always been slightly obsessed with.  Our pursuit of learning how to make the perfect loaf eventually brought us to a small village outside of Rome to apprentice in a family bakery.  There, our bleary eyed 4 am mornings were spent watching an old man and his son work [...]

Lately, it seems that pork belly is all the rage.  We’ve seen it prepared on Top Chef, have had it out a few times in restaurants, and Thomas Keller’s new book, Ad Hoc at Home, has a quite involved multiple day process for making the fatty cut.  We thought we would try it out to [...]