I’m Roger.

I do tech product management at work, and cook stuff at home.

This is my food and not food blog.

I also like: wine, comics, more wine, modernism, drag, board games, lizards, painting miniatures, cardigans, and a little bit of wine to round it all off.

I will not lie to you about onions.

You can also find me on Instagram

Hello

About the recipes – quantities,
specificity, etc

I’m often blogging something I’ve just cooked, so between that and being profoundly forgetful, I may not consistently list exact quantities, temperatures, or times.

The more recent recipes are a bit better for that, because I realised it was bloody annoying.

The title, “louche gastronomique”, what’s up with that?

It’s an adolescent pun.

Larousse Gastronomique was one of the great early food encyclopedias. I used to work in a book shop, and I also used to go in for a lot of cringe-inducing fey self-styling. It made sense at the time.

Oh, and don’t buy Larousse Gastronomique as much other than a historical curio. Harold McGee’s bookMcGee on Food is far more interesting and useful.