Will Griffin
Will Griffin
Recent Stories
Macho chefs chop just like Ahhhhhnold
I’m not a very manly man. I don’t pump iron, I don’t leave the seat up and I don’t know who is in the playoffs, ever.
Spring’s caffeinated aphrodisiac
Can you feel that vague sense of euphoria welling up in the pit of your stomach, reaching up to your eyeballs? Do you know why its there, or what it’s trying to tell you?
Henri fancied absinthe and the odd rummage
For me, the enjoyment of food is divided into three categories: 17 percent cooking-pleasure, 17 percent eating-pleasure, and 71 percent rummaging-pleasure.
Fiery crepes fussy, but fun
Work is one of the things that can really make you feel alive (eating and sex being the other two that immediately come to mind).
In search of the ideal Oysterville stuffing
In reading a book, we all inevitably refract the words before us through the lens of our current concerns. We are not surprised to learn that Santa Claus thinks books on various topics are all somehow allegories of the Christmas story. It won’t surprise you then to discover that I have been reading Proust’s “In Search Of Lost Time” and finding it impossible to keep my mind off Madeleines.
Geronimo and chili peppers: a love story
If restaurants were named after what they do best, New Haven’s newest restaurant would be called “The Chili Pepper.”
‘Guide Culinaire’ to finger-lickin’ chicken
When it comes to food, I subscribe to the following formula “Good Things Are Found in Weird Places,” and to the related formula “The Older the Weirder.” That’s why I have been cooking out of Auguste Escoffier’s monumental cookbook, “Le Guide Culinaire.”