My life with the culinary director of Serious Eats

My life with the culinary director of Serious Eats

HomeCooking Tips, RecipesMy life with the culinary director of Serious Eats

The trials and tribulations that come with being married to a professional foodie.

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Tour of our Culinary Director's Kitchen | Serious Eats At Home

It’s a Wednesday afternoon just before Christmas and Daniel and I are stuck in traffic in an Uber on our way home to Queens. He’s just woken up from anesthesia and his right arm is strapped into an absurdly large foam box that’s more of a recliner than a cast meant to protect his newly operated wrist. He’s dizzy and serious shaking from having spent the morning in a cold operating room. His eyes are brighter and greener than I remember. He’s cute and handsome and… he’s somehow inexplicably listing every cut of beef he’s recently tested for a Guinness stew recipe. He keeps listing off cuts of beef I’ve never heard of. For God’s sake he’s just had three hours of surgery is numbed down to his collarbone and all he can talk about is beef?

Yeah all he can talk about is beef and that's what I'm going to talk about. Because this is what it means to be Daniel Gritzer's dedicated partner.

Now I know what you’re thinking because it’s what everyone says: You live with Daniel Gritzer the culinary director of Serious Eats? That must be incredible! You must really enjoy having a personal chef sharing his in-depth knowledge with you and hand-crafting three superlative meals a day right? And you’ve probably become an expert home cook too!