My Name is Big Rob -

I am BIG and I am ROB, I am an informally trained chef / music junkie, I have done radio for the past 10 years and restraunts for the last 20 years. There are 2 things that make a kitchen run smooth, the right chef, and some good tunes. I like to think I contribute to at least one of these things at all times. I’m not afraid to take some chances and start dumping and mixing the nontraditional items together to try and come up with something creative, and I’ll deep fry just about anything once, twice if it works!! I’m a big fan of down home grub, latin(mexican, spanish, and cuban) , asian fare, and fusing just about any styles of cooking, or at least trying to. I like the trials and accept the errors, but sometimes you get it right the first time…….So, join myself and the Doormouse as we partake of this endevour we call “THE METAL CHEF”

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My name is the doormouse. I am I. That’s all that i am. I am not a trained chef. I am a trained musician. I am not a trained writer. I am a trained marketer. I am not a trained prognastigator, I am a trained percussionist. I studied and adore metal, punk and hardcore, Jazz, big band, bebop and avant-garde. I am French-Canadian and Portuguese with a love of Creole, cajun, delta, Louisissippi, Southwestern, TexMex, Mexican, Acadian, Quebeca, New England and Iberian cousines. I am also from NJ and the meltingpot that is the region also means I have a love of short-order cooking being in the home of a Diner and a special place in my heart for the music that goes along with those latenight dive experiences from pickup blues to garage punks and everyone inbetween. To your gastro-aural senses, eric the doormouse