Morocco: A Mosaic of Cultures

Morocco: A Mosaic of Cultures is Now Available on YouTube

I’m very excited to present to you the next film in my unexpected travel series: Morocco: A Mosaic of Cultures. The full film is now on YouTube, check it out.

It is 40 minutes long, which I fully realize that in today’s 6 second attention span economy, is an eternity to ask of people. But it is long form story telling, which to me has a lot of value and has a special place in this world.

This is the type of content that I want to see in this world and quite frankly, it doesn’t really exist anymore. Not in the form that I’m interested in watching anyways. So, that means that I need to make it. Which brings us to now… here we are…

Making Butter from Scratch

"I don’t care what they tell you they’re putting or not putting in your food at your favorite restaurant, chances are you’re eating a ton of butter." - Anthony Bourdain

Homemade Butter - Dall·e AI

An interesting thing has been happening recently, every time I go to the store (which admittedly is not often) and every time I buy butter (which is an even rarer occurrence), the butter always seems to be twice as expensive as last time I bought it. I'm not sure how something continues to double in price but this is the world we live in.

I've always wanted to try making my own butter but haven't had much incentive to actually give it a whirl. After realizing how expensive butter has gotten, I found myself with some leftover Heavy Cream from making Ice Cream (which you should most certainly make if you haven't). Rather than let it go bad, I threw it in the stand mixer and turned it into butter. It really is that easy.

Making Ice Cream from Scratch

"If you made all the French fries you ate, you would eat them much less often... The same holds true for fried chicken, chips, cakes, pies, and ice cream. Enjoy these treats as often as you're willing to prepare them - chances are good it won't be every day."

- Michael Pollan

Homemade Ice Cream - Dall·e AI

One would think that the history and invention of ice cream would be relatively straight forward along with having a fun story associated with it. One would also assume that modern refrigeration would need to exist. Naturally the 1950's seems like ripe ice cream invention time and would have an interesting tale, such as:

Invented on a blistering hot summer's night in 1950's Iowa, dairy farmer Herbert I.C. Cream had copious amounts of leftover milk that was destined to spoil so he gave it to his kids to play with (prime 1950's entertainment), one of them, for no reason at all, poured some of the milk into a bucket and started stirring it with a paddle, an hour later this kid ran over to their father excitedly to proudly show them what had come of their impromptu science experiment, a thick substance which became known as cream, they added flavoring to it, threw it in their brand new General Electric freezer and the rest is history, ice cream was born.

Sadly, no such story exists. If you assumed the same assumptions that I did and also thought it had a modern backstory then you can proudly join me in the Wrong Assumptions club. Your membership card will be in the mail after a short 6 to 12 week waiting period. Unless it happens to be a day of the week that ends in "day" then the mailing date will be left as "to be determined" for a day that does not end in "day" which I assume will be at some point in the future.