tom hudgens

author of The Commonsense Kitchen and the WHOLE HOG blog

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Camino Restaurant Menu
Here is the poetic, inspiring, daily-changing menu of one of my new favorite restaurants, where most of the seasonal fare is cooked with live fire.
Culinate
This terrific website has featured an excerpt from The Commonsense Kitchen!
Cool House
Check out my Slovene friends' cool gourmet food store in Ljubljana (I am a guest blogger on their site, too, if you'd like to see my recipes translated into Slovene).
Bookpod.org
A weekly podcast of thoughtful "audio essays" by novelists, memoirists, playwrights and non-fiction writers of lasting value. Tom's interview is entitled "Cooking with Commonsense."
The Shiksa in the Kitchen
A wonderful guide to Jewish comfort food!
Smitten Kitchen
One of the most popular independent cooking blogs in America today.
Saving the Season
A fine, sumptuous blog about home canning and preserving.
the weekly menus at Chez Panisse
I love to read these menus each week--an excellent resource for cooking and "thinking" seasonally.
Deep Springs College
Find out all about the renowned college-in-the-desert where the cookbook was "born!"

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(red cabbage, Deep Springs Garden, Summer 2007)

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"I believe the dawn of human civilization occurred not at the moment we learned to build a fire, nor at the moment of killing and butchering an animal, but rather at the moment we learned to carefully cook bits of that animal's flesh over the fire without burning it, to brown, smoky, juicy perfection."

--from the essay "Learning to Cook," The Commonsense Kitchen

(the meat grinder, Butcher Room, Deep Springs Boardinghouse, Fall 2006)