I'm a home cook and love to read about food, but I'm not trained as a chef. I'm just really into cooking and passionate about it.
When I come home from a shoot, I'd rather reheat food I've made than eat takeout.
However, I was a restaurant critic at Chicago magazine before I worked at Esquire, and I've been a really enthusiastic home cook for a long time. It's just something I'm passionate about.
The funny thing about Thanksgiving ,or any big meal, is that you spend 12 hours shopping for it then go home and cook,chop,braise and blanch. Then it's gone in 20 minutes and everybody lies around sortof in a sugar coma and then it takes 4 hours to clean it up.
