My Dad would have loved Del Rancho, and I’m sure if he ever spent enough time in Oklahoma City to need a meal, that he ate there. Dear old Dad had a homing beacon for greasy dinners and most of my fondest memories of Dad are of my brother, me, and Dad sitting in a small booth with a tiny jukebox. It’s worth noting Dad died of multiple system failures at the ripe old age of 62. Anyway. Del Rancho is famous for it’s Chicken Fried Steak Sandwich. For those of you North of the Mason Dixie Line, a chicken…
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Cooking Dirty-Living The Life
If you could put your feet behind your head, you’d be the perfect woman. I can. She said. Want to see? That’s my favorite bit of nonsense from the wonderfully twisted chef bio called Cooking Dirty about one man’s wasted life in food service. Along the way he learns to cook meat, do endless bumps of coke, drink near lethal doses of alcohol, and have to prove that he is a really lousy pastry chef. It’s the book that Anthony Bourdain would have written if he hadn’t pulled so many punches in Kitchen Confidential. Cooking Dirty makes most of Tony’s…