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It’s just the best cookware out there. Period.

D’Artagnan, the long-standing purveyor of gourmet meat, game and other culinary products, has a party in the making…cassoulet with all the proper ingredients!  For one price, you get duck confit, duck and armagnac sausage, garlic sausage, duck fat, demi-glace and the very important Tarbais beans that create cassoulet as authentic as any you’ll find in […]

These sturdy, carbon steel pans are a great alterative to cast iron.

Stone crabs are one of my favorite foods in Key West. Their sweet, firm meat not only tastes amazingly good, but it also signals that the summer season is over and the weather in Key West is going to be perfect for the next eight months.

This Vietnamese fish sauce is the best I’ve ever tasted.  Just anchovies and sea salt flavor this rich sauce.  This is the type of crafted sauce is exactly what a good cook is looking for.  It’s perfect for a simple, spicy Thai sauce for fish (see my recipe).  redboatfishsauce.com

Founded in Illinois by Conrad Boos in 1887, this company makes outstanding chopping blocks and cutting boards from rock-hard maple and oak harvested in the Great Lakes area.

Espadrilles are the perfect shoe for warm Key West. They can be very casual or make a dressed-up look feel beachy and cool. I bought my espadrilles from France until I discovered Soludos, a New York brand that makes the real thing.

I’ll admit to being a bit in love with knives. Sounds creepy when said that way, but I am of course talking about the kitchen variety. I really have all I need, but I still had one knife crush unfulfilled…the nakiri.

We discovered Arkenstone wine at Thomas Keller’s Bouchon Bistro in Yountville, California in late September 2010. It was their barrel selection and the staff was very excited about it.

These knives were written about in the New York Times not long ago as being a favorite of chefs all over the world.