About the Rogue Gourmet
Welcome to the Rogue Gourmet,the Rogue Gourmet is my kitchen diary, online cookbook, reference guide and more. I started the Rogue Gourmet as Chilefire.com back in October of 2005 to help me share my recipes with friends and family. Today the Rogue Gourmet has a database of 240+ recipes exploring foods from all around the world.
the Rogue Gourmet began in the modest galley of our live-aboard houseboat the Bobbel K, on the Potomac river in Washington DC. Today my wife Naomi, daughter Fiona and I (Bryce) live, cook and eat at the foot of the Rocky Mountains in Laramie, Wyoming.
Being a die hard "foodie" and living in a region that is both high altitude (7200 feet) and that the US government lists as a "Frontier Community" has it's challenges. For the first 4 years, this site focused on a more urban existence. Washington DC, with its remarkable cultural richness has nearly unparalleled culinary resources, wrought by an enourmous and varied diaspora. Living in Wyoming... well it is different, to say the least, and over the last three years I have grown to love it here and today I am happy to call it home. That said, cooking in Wyoming is a wholly different experience, from a complete lack of any fresh ocean based seafood of note, to water boiling at 198 degrees Fahrenheit.
For a time, as I learned my way around a new kitchen, more limited ingredients, a new food culture, and new high alititude cooking rules, I put the brakes on Chilefire and didn't write much, partly because I was learning new things, and partly because I didnt' feel like I could speak with much authority on livng, and cooking in a place that is as different as Wyoming is from Washington DC. Luckily time has passed, and I am feeling much more confident about living and cooking here, and I happy to restart the blog, but with a new name to better reflect my new place, new home, and new attitude.
I am a great lover of experimentation, and many of the recipes you find here will reflect far flung tastes and specialized ingredients. But I have also reserved a place for the more traditional dishes that have been handed down from family. If you look you will find some of our family classics; from both my mothers family in Virginia, and my fathers family that has a culinary soul forged in the years his family spent living in Puerto Rico.
I hope that you enjoy the Rogue Gourmet, try out some recipes and come back for seconds. And always, please feel free to contact me with any of your questions, recipes, or thoughts.
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The Rogue Gourmet is an entirely Not-About-Profit affair, and is run for entirely for the joy of it. I do not do advertising on the site, or take payment for anything I do on the site, rather I prefer to participate as a positive citizen of the web and help make it interesting by doing this site for the enjoyment of others, and for the pure interest in the material I present.
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Disclaimer: All of the information contained in this website is intended for educational purposes only. Bryce Tugwell makes no guarantees, warranties or representations, implied or express, as to the appropriateness, timeliness, accuracy, completeness, and/or usefulness of any of the information in this guide. There may be errors in the information presented. Bryce Tugwell assumes no risk or obligation for your use of this website or the information which it presents.
