“I have a problem with wine. Once I find a wine I love, well, eventually it goes away. They only make so many cases in a year, so it’s a constant hunt for that next beautiful bottle. I started making cocktails in New Orleans because that’s what everyone wants. Everybody drinks. I got into bartending [...]
The Gravy: In the Kitchen with Sean Yseult
“This is my dad’s skillet, and the only thing he left me in his will. He was an English professor, so he didn’t have a lot to leave any of us. I guess he felt that I’d been self-sufficient in life. When I toured with White Zombie I was a vegetarian. I became a vegetarian [...]
The Gravy: In the Kitchen with Barbara Menendez
“My son Weston, who is also in my band (the Help), he put it to me this way about cooking. He likes to cook because I’ve always cooked, and I said to Weston, ‘You know, one day, everything that you’ve ever learned about cooking just gels, and it’s like an epiphany.’ And he goes, ‘Like [...]
The Gravy: In the Kitchen with Renard Poché
“I don’t exactly have a name for this, but I guess we can call it a citrus fruit cocktail. How this came about is, I’ve always liked lemonade, and a few years ago I went through a really bad time, so I was looking online for natural anti-depressants. Citrus fruit was high on the list: [...]
The Gravy: In the Kitchen with Brint Anderson
I was born in Natchez. We always ate well because my mother was a great cook. She was one of the first housewives in Natchez to have Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking. In fact, I’ve got it here. I got all her books after she passed away in ‘04. Her name was [...]
The Gravy: In the Kitchen with Johnny Vidacovich
The poem, yes. We call it “Getting Ready Spaghetti.” The name of the poem is “Oh, it’s Fun to Play the Drums,” but the best part of playing the drums is eating spaghetti. Oh, it’s fun to play the drums. Getting ready, eating spaghetti. Going to the gig, feeling like a pig. Oh, it’s fun [...]
The Gravy: In the Kitchen with Martin Krusche
“Let me show you my pot. I fill this one. Magnetic Ear will play every Sunday in January at the Allways Lounge, and the main selling point is free food at 8 and then we play at 8:30. When we did Live at the Saturn Bar, I wanted to make a live record, and to [...]
The Gravy: In the Kitchen with Theresa Andersson
I didn’t cook much when I lived in Sweden. I was 18 when I moved here, and that was basically when I started my own home. We planted our lemon tree five years ago. I grew up on a farm so I love plants. I didn’t know this before I moved here; I love being [...]
The Gravy: In the Kitchen with Big Chief Monk Boudreaux
“When I was a kid, I did never go outside. Always stayed inside, and my grandmother used to cook. I helped her cut up the seasoning. Then when my grandmother died, I liked to stay home and watch my mom cook. I just wasn’t interested in being outside. I don’t go nowhere now, you know, [...]
The Gravy: In the Kitchen with Susan Cowsill
“My mom and dad both came from Cranston, Rhode Island, outside of Providence. Lots of Italian, Portuguese and Irish Catholic, which is what we are. The meat loafs and the stews and the roasts, that’s all Irish. Anything you can put a potato in. The roast was always smaller than all the potatoes. My mom [...]
