Le Chef's Kitchen

Hello all,

If you’re reading this you’ve either made it all the way back to the first post of my blog after years of great successes and hundreds of interesting posts, or you’re simply the first person to whom I’ve sent the link to this little web page.  Either way, thanks for being here, and thanks for reading!  I decided to start this blog, today, simply to have a way to document and share my cooking, eating, drinking, and general culinary experiences with my friends, family, and the internets in general.  I’ve been cooking now (non-professionally) for about 15 years, and have waited far too long to get a blog about it up and running.  So, I hope that you enjoy reading about my culinary exploits, and I hope that you might try cooking some of the dishes that I put up here.  This will by no means be a “learn-how-to-cook” blog, but I will do my best to share the process as well as the end product, and hope that you find what I’ve written here to be interesting and informative.

A bit about the blog title:  my friends, a few years ago, decided to nickname me “Le Chef”.  This is in part because my last name sounds French (Lambert), which it is not (it’s English, and we hate the French, or at least they hate us).  It is also for the most part because I like to cook a lot, and I wind up cooking up elaborate feasts for pretty much no reason, and generally make a large mess in doing so.  I have been known to cook and eat wild mushrooms after a quick internet consultation to determine (probable) toxicology, and to cut open and consume raw sea urchin off the rocks on a remote Brazillian beach.  Some people call this “risky behavior”.  I consider it haute cuisine.

So, join me for what will hopefully be an interesting exploration of the world of food, in and around New York City, and beyond!

Drew Lambert

The hand-stitched London broil meat fedora, circa October 2008.