Banana Peppers

My pepper plants are starting produce quite well.  The banana peppers are the front runners only in that the cayenne peppers have not yet started to turn their beautiful red.  Once that happens the plants themselves will look like a southwestern imprestionist painting of a Christmas tree.  Pictures of these will hopefully soon be online [...]

Crazy Fruit Article

You definitely have to check this one out.  I got this from a friend.  It was in the New York Times dinning section today and it sounds amazing.  People talk about plain goat cheese tasting like cheese cake and vinegar tasting like apple cider.  I have to wonder how this could all fit into the [...]

Coriander Seed

I love cilantro.  To me it says summer, Mexican food, bright, fresh, bold, all things I like in foods.  The ironic part of it all is that the cilantro plant (as it is known in North America) does not like the hot summers of Charleston.  I have tried to grow it for three years now [...]

New Book I am Reading

After my last trip to New York City with my wife Kelly I sat down and decided to write letters to all the places I had been to just to say “Thank You”.  One of the letters I wrote was to Danny Meyer, the CEO of Union Square Hospitality Group.  This group owns ten restaurants [...]

New Logo

                                                              
We finally have a new logo and I have to put it out there for all to see.  I think it finally embodies all that we are trying to accomplish.  Classic and timeless in every way.  Being something you not only remember but can see in your mind anytime someone mentions the name…..Red Sky.
 

The Perfect Pig Book

Here is an image of the book I just mentioned.  I am sorry for the Amazon like look, but that is where I got the image from, and a good place to get the book as well.
                                                                             

New book to read

My wonderful wife bought me this new book after she learned I was having a horrible day (isn’t she great).  I don’t have many fortunately and after hearing about some of it she decided I needed another book about pork, one of my favorite, if not the number one on my list, proteins.  This book [...]

Living in Cuba

Ever since I lived in Tampa Florida I have loved the thought of living in Cuba.  I know that some would say why?  And my answer would be simple, get to know a Cuban individual or family and you will understand.  I have since then always had a place in my heart for the mystic [...]

Permission given

Now that I have permission from the man and the company I am happy to start being able to talk about a great project that I had mentioned earlier.  My friend Dave Brown (owner of Coastal Cigars) and I have an idea that we hope is going to provide us and a select few a [...]

Fennel, how sweet it is

Without a doubt one of my favorite vegetables is fennel; so versatile, so delicious, and so easy to use.  Fennel will withstand a lot of punishment before it gives up the fight.  I am not suggesting that you beat it up, obviously, what I am saying is that the novice cook can push a little [...]