Comments on: “Take Control of Thanksgiving Dinner” released

By: kalyn

kalyn — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 12:31:54 +0000

Hi Joe, Sorry to be off topic here, but I just wanted to say thanks for the help on Food Blog S’cool. Really appreciate the simple explanation so a non-geek (me!) could understand it.

By: Turkey Giblets | The Geeky Gourmet

Turkey Giblets | The Geeky Gourmet — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 23:04:13 +0000

[...] In the process of working on Take Control of Thanksgiving Dinner, I mentioned the items you’ll have to remove from the inside of your fresh or frozen turkey: the neck and the giblets (heart, gizzard, and liver). These parts aren’t usually eaten, but they can be used to make an excellent gravy. I wanted to make the point that I recommend leaving out the liver, which might add undesirable flavors to the gravy, but in order to explain to the uninitiated which one of these weird tissue masses was the liver, I had to give a verbal description of the size, shape, and color of each item that constitutes the giblets. Upon reading my description, the publisher felt that a picture would serve better, and I agreed, so I snapped a shot of the neck and giblets sitting on my cutting board the next time I roasted a turkey. [...]

By: Toast Eatery | The Geeky Gourmet

Toast Eatery | The Geeky Gourmet — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 23:03:57 +0000

[...] A couple of months ago, I started running into my dentist pretty frequently while walking around and shopping in my San Francisco neighborhood. He told me he’d recently opened a new office, which conveniently is only a few blocks from my home. Shortly thereafter, I ran into him again at, of all places, a restaurant supply store. I was there shopping for apparatus I needed in the course of testing recipes for Take Control of Thanksgiving Dinner. He told me that along with his brothers, he was about to open a new restaurant just over the hill in Noe Valley, in a space formerly occupied by a diner called Hungry Joe’s (no relation). [...]

By: Recipe: Roasted Green Beans | The Geeky Gourmet

Recipe: Roasted Green Beans | The Geeky Gourmet — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 23:03:36 +0000

[...] By the way…personally, I still feel that the only valid food colors in a Thanksgiving dinner are shades of white, yellow, orange, red, and brown. However, if you must cook something green on Thanksgiving and your family isn’t pushing for the green bean casserole, consider giving these beans a try. [...]

By: Introducing The Geeky Gourmet | The Geeky Gourmet

Introducing The Geeky Gourmet | The Geeky Gourmet — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 23:03:10 +0000

[...] Little did I imagine a year ago that I’d be starting my own food blog. After all, what can I say about food and cooking that people far more qualified than I couldn’t? Then, with the encouragement of my publisher, I began writing Take Control of Thanksgiving Dinner, an experiment in which we’re taking our computer ebook model and applying it to the world of cooking. In that process, I discovered that I did have quite a few things to say that I wasn’t seeing anywhere else (that being the reason for the new book in the first place). [...]