the expensive one earned it
I asked you about the cigar you expected nothing from, and then the priciest, most decorated stick in my humidor went over an hour and burned my fingers. Not the story I was setting up.
From the shelf.
bottle, flame, and now smoke
There is a spreadsheet on my laptop called Cigar Humidor Tracker, and I never decided to become a cigar person…
where do you even put the probe
Two rules for grilling a T-bone, both of them correct, and they do not like each other.
crispy skin or one pan. pick one.
I put a spatchcocked chicken straight onto a skillet of potatoes and got a fantastic dinner with disappointing…
toasted bread can hold anything
It started with a forty-cent slice of Trader Joe's white and two presses of the Breville's A Bit More button. …
trust your wine people
I bought a bottle of Aligoté because a friend posted one on Instagram. It turned out to be one of the best whi…
detroit pizza, take three: don't rush the dough
I finally got the pepperoni right, then found a whole new way to trip: I served my family a dense one. Here's …
Writing from Lake Oswego.
Bottle & Flame has been a notebook since 2013 — kitchens in London, Shanghai, and now Oregon. Brian cooks from memory as much as from recipes: what a market in Xintiandi taught him, what a Sunday roast in Islington required, what the pantry in Lake Oswego demands on a Tuesday night.