When Snacks Attack….

May 24, 2016March 29, 2020 / The Black Hat Baker / 1 Comment

Good afternoon, friends and neighbors! How did your mead turn out? Tasty, I hope!
I keep meaning to make this blog a bit more frequent than bi-weekly, and once my secret project finally unfolds, I think I’ll have more than enough material to do that!
“Wait, what secret project?”
Oh, you’ll see… In about two weeks.

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Wherever You Go…

February 25, 2016March 29, 2020 / The Black Hat Baker / Leave a comment

Good evening, friends and neighbors!

On my current schedule, Thursdays are my first day off of the week. While there is plenty to be done around the house- cleaning, planning, organizing, errands, and so on- Thursdays are MY day. While wandering the city, I learned of the existence of the Oregon Jewish Museum and decided to mosey down and check it out- get a little bit of my family’s history and culture in this strange new land.

Which is why I am currently sitting in Lan Su- Portland’s Chinese Garden in the heart of its Chinatown.

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What’s A Guy Gotta Do To Get A Drink (after work) In This Town?!

January 28, 2016March 29, 2020 / The Black Hat Baker / Leave a comment

Good evening, friends and neighbors!

It’s been a while since I’ve done a simple, less-guided entry, hasn’t it? Ever since the move out to the Pacific Northwest, I’ve had to re-establish a few things that I generally took for granted in my daily (and writing) life: favorite dives, favorite restaurants, local bars that I’m pretty comfortable walking home from when I’ve had too many. With Portland’s fairly-excellent public transport, “stumbling distance” can mean a few miles- provided you can keep straight enough to hop the right bus/train combination.

Hey, you aren’t driving, right?

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What Learning to Cook REALLY Teaches

January 21, 2016March 29, 2020 / The Black Hat Baker / Leave a comment

Good evening, friends and neighbors!

on the BHB’s “On The Bench”…

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Teach the Children to Cook

January 8, 2016March 29, 2020 / The Black Hat Baker / Leave a comment

Good evening, friends and neighbors! Happy New Year! I hope your New Year’s Eve was spent with friends and loved ones, eating good food and giving 2015 a fond farewell- or maybe a swift kick on it’s way out.

Well, we can try anyway…

In a few previous entries, I wrote about education, but only as far as culinary school- that is, education for adults that want to make a career in the food industry. In my opinion, however, culinary education should start LONG before that.