/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Thoughts?

>>10736548
go re-read the thread and AB's bio. he did work briefly as a line cook after finishing culinary school. that is legit credential that he was trained to cook food.

Your 9 year old retard is not the author of multiple cook books that are among the best selling in the category. Alton Brown is. His books were published because the recipes were good, his show was popular because his recipes were good, and people buy his books because the recipes are good.

AB was not just a paid actor. He wrote, directed, and produced Good Eats. He used his background from film to curate Good Eats to be exactly the show he wanted it to be, with as few compromises as possible.

His awards are the outcome of being good at what he does: teaching people how to cook by showing them why and how recipes were created.

You can squabble over whether or not AB is "universally respected" but it's pretty hard to find a hater that isn't just jealous of his success and/or butthurt that Good Eats removed a lot the gatekeeping around cooking good food for a lot of people

>>10629907
>Stick to the most famous producers of Spain (La Rioja Alta, CVNE, Lopez de Heredia, Muga, Pesquera, Vega Sicilia, etc) and you're good.

This is just straight-up, fully biased shill talk. Ignore this poster and drink what you like.

If the wine tastes good to you, note the grape varietal(s) that were used to make it and look for more wines of the same type next time you shop. Getting "into" wine requires that you learn what different types of wine taste like. That means you might want to do some reading and/or keep a journal of what you taste.

If you want a crash-course in wine, watch "Somm" and "Somm: Into the Bottle" on the Netflix. They give an excellent overview and summary of the history and technical knowledge of wine making.

Have you ever had Ortolan? What did they taste like?

>>9918470
I hear tail that it's blowfish.
But I'd say Ortolan. Look it up and visit the Cracked most cruel foods article and just give that a scimmy, that'll give you an idea.

>>9889609
the wife rates it "ragamuffins"

i rate it one clinically depressed male trying to recapture the glory days of his youth to avoid dealing with his inevitable journey into middle age.

>>9782847
I hide my face when I eat them. please don't judge me

I want to try Ortolan at least once in my life. It's definitely one of the most interesting eating experiences that I've ever read about.

>>41885
>tfw you will never try ortolan