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 book, McGee on Food is far more interesting and useful.