Joe Ratner AKA 841519

about me

After spending 20 years in the Navy enjoying food and wine from all over the western world compiling fabulous recipes and creating my own I decided it was time to start organizing them. I will be placing mostly my originals here and ones that are not will be noted. Many of the recipes I was given from faraway places had no measurements and, in an effort to create a cookbook I have to come up with appropriate measurements. I will need you the chefs of Recipe Czar to help me out and make sure that my recipes are good and repeatable before I finish writing my cookbook. As an added bonus, the top 20 chefs who give me the most help will get signed copies (not that it will be worth anything) and special mention in the book. Assuming we all live long enough for me to finish it. Thanks in advance for all your help.

Joe

More about me....

Don't you just love talking about me?

Currently I work as the maintenance department in a medical distribution center here in RTP, NC. In my spare time which isn't very much I like to watch hockey. Go Devils!!! While I am at work my mind always thinks about food and strange but wonderful flavour combinations. I seem to have a knack for finding good drinkable wines for 3-5 dollars. Not 2-buck-Chuck either. However when I cook with alcohol ie bourbon gin, etc i refuse to skimp. My favourite Rum is Venezuelan and my favourite chocolate is alos Venezuelan. If you must know it's El-Rey. My mom loves having me around as if I am having dinner with her and the fam she gets the ingredients I have to come up with the meal. I can and always will rise to any challenge I am faced with. Give me your list of unrelated ingredients and I promise in 2 hours I can have a wonderful meal. Assuming you have as well stocked kitchen as i do. For those of you who don't believe I have a collection of sea salt from over 11 countries. Each one is different and imparts its own characteristics into the food. Honey to me is the same. Anyway I could go on about food for ever but I won,t If you want anything from me please just ask. I love to talk food. My yahoo IM is...thedevilshockey

Favorite Foods:

I have no favourite foods. However if I had to choose or die Sardinian would be my choice. The best reason I can explain why is that Sardinian cuisine is so simple yet packs so much punch on the pallet. Second best would be Italian, obviously. I chose to consider Sardo a cuisine category in and of itself because after having lived there for 2 years and visiting all over Italy, I realized that there is much more to Sardo food than just rustic Italian food, not to say that rustic Italian food isn't good it is. With the infusion of middle eastern, African and some French (due to the proximity of Corsica, birth-place of Napolean) I find the Sardo cuisine wonderfully rustic and very exuberant.

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