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Shepherd's pie resting on the stove

Reflections on the Manifestations of Umami

I’m assuming that you know what the word umami means. If you don’t, I recommend reading the Umami wiki-page at Wikipedia. The most elusive of the flavors, umami rounds out savory dishes. A difficult concept to grasp but, when making beef dishes, one knows immediately what making a dish savory is all about. As a [...]

chile

Beagle’s Breath Chili

If there is one food item that I have a love/hate relationship with, it is chili. Good chili is sublime: bursting with complex, interconnected flavors, hot enough to make you sweat but not so volcanic that you hesitate to shovel more of the heavenly mixture of meat, peppers, and sauce into your gaping maw. And [...]