Meet the Guru

Since the name of this blog is The Kitchen Alchemist, I should probably get off the politics and historical sentiment once in a while and talk about food. Unfortunately there hasn't been as much of it in my life lately, trying to lose some more weight to go easy on the knees, but I'm looking forward to cooking lip-smacking, fall-off-the-bone, yummy barbecue ribs for friends this weekend. If you want my recipe, well you can't have it...but I will tell you where I got the original foundation recipe:

Alton Brown Sensei is perhaps the only modern celebrity chef that seems to actually teach people how to cook instead of just parrot some recipe and hope you don't put in too much BAM! He's host of Food Network's Good Eats as well as the spectacular road-tripping travel/food-logue Feasting on Asphault (and the upcoming follow-on Feasting on Waves).

Good Eats is where to start if you can't cook. If you can cook it certainly can't hurt. I promise you, Alton will teach you something you didn't know, make you laugh at his science-project approach and along the way show you how to make the kinds of food you actually want to eat.

So watch every episode of Alton Brown's shows until he decides you are ready to learn the techniques of advanced ribbery. Until then you must practice hard. Or you can take the true path and purchase Master Brown's vaunted grimoires of culinary mastery and you too can become a seventeenth level wizard of ribs...leaving you with only twelve more levels to catch me.

"Do not let the body be dragged along by the mind nor the mind dragged by the body"
-Miyamoto Musashi