“In Japan, we eat the golden-fried pork chop, tonkatsu. I don’t make that. I use a soy sauce base that is fruity and sweet, with apple, ginger and honey. This is the secret: Sake! Makes it sweet; makes meat tender. When I’m in a restaurant, I always sit at the bar to see the cook [...]
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The Gravy: In the Kitchen with Bill Summers
December 1, 2011 – 12:21 am
“I have a system, and I like to stick to it—it’s not having one. This is an expensive meal, this. It cost me $50 to buy all this stuff. I like to cook with palm oil, and it’s really not good for you. It’s saturated. So I cut it with olive oil, which is good [...]
The Gravy: In the Kitchen with Mystikal
November 1, 2011 – 12:24 am
“I do most of the morning cooking. I’m the breakfast chef. I grew up in New Orleans, Uptown, in the 12th ward, a block off of Louisiana and a block off of Tchoupitoulas. My mom cooked everything. Gumbo, all the traditional New Orleans cuisine; the red beans, the crawfish etouffee. She got down, from the [...]
The Gravy: In the Kitchen with Big Al Carson
October 1, 2011 – 12:20 am
“I grew up right here in New Orleans. I’m homegrown, as I always say. I grew up in the Seventh Ward and the Lafitte projects. I’m right here in the midst of things. Homegrown. I used to cook more than I do now, because I just can’t stand up at the stove like I used [...]
The Gravy: In the Kitchen with 10th Ward Buck
September 1, 2011 – 12:18 am
“I like hot. I like to use Crystal because I’ve experienced it and it’s not too salty. Some hot sauces have their own taste. Men love spice. My Mardi Gras [sauce] is not too hot, where my women are starting to take onto it also. We call it the Mardi Gras sauce because it has [...]
The Gravy: In the Kitchen with George Schmidt
August 1, 2011 – 12:17 am
“Painters mix stuff together, and you’ll find a lot of painters who are cooks because it’s an extension of this, instead of colors you’re mixing flavors. I got myself Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking, but French cooking is like a mist before the eyes while Italian cooking is like a pat on [...]
The Gravy: In the Kitchen with Trixie Minx
July 1, 2011 – 12:20 am
“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
June 1, 2011 – 12:16 am
“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 Brint Anderson
March 1, 2011 – 12:20 am
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 Martin Krusche
January 1, 2011 – 12:23 am
“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 [...]
