devotay

active 7 hours, 8 minutes ago

Iowa City

Birthday	April 9, 2009
Where do you live?	Iowa City
Where did you grow up?	Never did.
Full Name	devotay
Your 140 character blurb about yourself	Chef/Author/Advocate, passionate foodie, unabashed omnivore, authoritative wino
What do you do?	Own a restaurant, cook, write, drink, garden, bike, drink

What was your first food epiphany?	Coq au vin when I was 6. My Uncle Jim made it. He nearly set the kitchen on fire. Coolest thing I had ever seen.
What are your five favorite cookbooks and why?	Escoffier, Julia’s “The Way to Cook, ” Culinaria Spain, Irena Chalmers “Good Old Food, ” and the Joy of Cooking. They’re all about foundation, about technique, which frees the cook to be creative
What are your three favorite recipes and why?	I rarely ever use recipes except as inspiration, a sort of a “hey that’s a good idea, but what if I did this and this instead?” kind of thing
What are your three favorite tools in the kitchen?	My hands, my 10″ Wusthoff, and my garlic peeler
What concerns you most about food?	The industrial standardization of flavors, the people who mistake frenzy for efficiency and are willing to settle for expedient mediocrity, and the wrongheaded belief that good food is only for the rich
If you could give your best friends--or children--one piece of advice on anything food related, what would it be?	The closer the source is you your kitchen door, the better it will taste on your plate. Know the farmer, know the food. Oh, and if it wasn’t food 100 years ago, it isn’t food now.

devotay posted on the forum topic Gardening in the group Eco Bites: 14 hours, 59 minutes ago

Pamela – The healthier your soil is the less bug trouble you'll have – so sounds like your doing well on that scale so far!
devotay posted on the forum topic Gardening in the group Eco Bites: 16 hours, 56 minutes ago

My wife and I are avid gardeners, both for home and for our restaurant, on about a half acre. To read my most recent take on gardening in the Huffington Post, "Channeling David Attenborough," check out http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kurt-friese/the-modern-primitives-of_b_490137.html
devotay and Sherrilyn Askew are now friends 1 week, 6 days ago
devotay posted a new status update: 2 weeks, 2 days ago

The Root of the Issue: http://nourishnetwork.com/2010/02/18/root-veggies/
devotay and Jessica Blaire Rodriguez are now friends 2 weeks, 4 days ago

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On January 4, 2010 Sara Kuhs said:

Hi there–love your comment on the use of recipes! here here!!
On January 1, 2010 Lia Huber said:

Oooh, I could go for that elk loin!
On November 16, 2009 said:

Thanks for the add!
On November 14, 2009 Lia Huber said:

Will definitely check that out. Isn’t he the one who wrote everything is illuminated?
On November 11, 2009 Lia Huber said:

Shot your Grandma’s cranberries in our china handed down to my husband by his late step-mom … beautiful. Thought you’d like that.