About
Welcome to Up Chef Creek.
A name for this blog completely stumped me. It kept me from reserving a domain for months. I brainstormed myself into circles upon circles…nothing seemed to fit. Up Chef Creek came in a deal I made with myself: ‘the next name you think of will be IT even if it is ridiculous’ so I just went with it.
I thought it a halfway amusing name because in cooking, following a recipe is not the most difficult part, but finding yourself in a bind, having to rescue a recipe when something goes wrong, now that is where ingenuity and terror and terror-inspired ingenuity step in. Plus, it sounds adventurous (in a steak-house sort of way) and I love to travel, as you will learn.
Otherwise, I am a NYC-based chef and caterer and educator. Making art and creating cocktails are also apsects of my endeavors. On this site you will find the following:
- idolatry: things I like (people, places, products, etc.)
- recipes: things to cook
- healthy: enthusiastic rants about a food’s health benefits
- projects: stuff I do and events around town, culinary and other
- reviews: opinions, usually in the form of a love letter
- paintings: a current series of still-life food paintings
- To see other (past) work, visit oriwashere.com
RECIPE INDEX: provides the site’s recipe at a glance and links to them
RESTAURANT LIST: chef approved places to eat
My general philosophy regarding the acts of eating and drinking is to always keep the greater good in mind. That is a very wide open statement and I like it that way.
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In order to contact me, please leave a comment anywhere on upchefcreek.com
love the whole concept- am an avid fan- will i be able to receive your blog automatically?grace c.
I am also an avid fan. Grace C seems to have a motherly quality about her and I would also love to receive your blogs automatically.
louis t.
To subscribe, click on the link under ‘Subscribe’ located on the right side of any page. I think it’s pretty self-explanatory from there. Yeah!