Category Archives: The Heartland

The Docsconz Top 25 Restaurant Meals of 2017

Posted on January 1, 2018 by docsconz

I apologize. I have been quite remiss when it has come to this blog. While 2017 was a great year for me from a dining perspective, it was also a very, very busy one. It was the first full year […]


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Dan Barber’s The Third Plate

Posted on April 4, 2016 by docsconz

I used to be a voracious reader, devouring books as if they were Benton’s bacon at a buffet, but then, I centered much of my world around the universe of food. I still read quite a bit, but my focus shifted […]


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Roots Action 2015 – Fermentation in Action

Posted on November 11, 2015 by Rocco Verrigni

Presenters: Kevin Farley, co-owner of the Cultured Pickle Shop in Berkeley, CA and Chef Edward Lee, chef/owner of 610 Magnolia in Louisville, KY and author of Smoke and Pickles: Recipes and Stories from a New Southern Kitchen.
The following is an addendum to […]


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Roots Action 2015 – Connections Between Seaweed and Health

Posted on October 19, 2015 by Rocco Verrigni

From Ocean to Plate: Seaweed’s Potential to Change the World
Author of Irish Seaweed Kitchen, the ultimate bible for cooking with sea vegetables, Dr. Prannie Rhatigan is a medical doctor with a lifetime experience of harvesting, cooking and gardening organically with sea vegetables. […]


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Roots Action 2015

Posted on October 5, 2015 by Rocco Verrigni

After returning home from attending the third annual Chef’s Garden Roots Conference, I feel akin to Moses coming down from the mountain after having received the tablets. The mountain being the Culinary Vegetable Institute in Milan, OH ( My-lin), and […]


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Big Apple BBQ 2015 – Meat, Music & Memories – Personal Highlights

Posted on June 16, 2015 by docsconz

The weather forecast earlier in the week wasn’t particularly encouraging, but fortunately, in this case, at least, the lack of long-term forecasting accuracy worked out splendidly as it proved to be another perfect weekend for the 13th annual Big Apple […]


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Bocuse d’Or USA at The Culinary Vegetable Institute – In Good Hands

Posted on March 28, 2014 by docsconz

Competitiveness is a basic human trait that has been around for as long as history has been recorded and likely well before that too. At its basest level, competition can bring out the worst in human nature, but at its […]


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The Chef’s Garden – Eden Exists in Ohio

Posted on March 27, 2014 by docsconz

Ohio is not the first place that would have come to my mind when thinking about sourcing a wide variety of top quality vegetables, herbs and flowers, but it is the home of what may very well be the finest […]


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