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• 2012 (10)
  • April (4)
    • Sussing out Inspiration
    • Creative Work is Still Work
    • Why I keep a garden
    • Seeds and Seasons
  • February (3)
    • The Importance of Failure
    • Between Quality and Preference
    • Are you open?
  • January (3)
    • The Chef & John Coltrane
    • 24 albums to set the mood
    • We're not leaving until this gets done
• 2011 (58)
  • December (4)
    • The Constant Work of Assembling a Team
    • 2011 New Year's Eve Dinner
    • No Trespassing
    • Saying Yes When Everyone Else Says No
  • November (1)
    • The Art of Eating and Feeding
  • October (2)
    • The Ebb and Flow of Local
    • What I wish I knew
  • September (7)
    • My Celebriti-festo
    • Can you feel the changes coming...
    • A wahn..anna..two..anna..three...
    • A wahn..anna..two..anna..three...
    • Why go through all the trouble
    • Making Hay While the Sun Shines
    • Making Hay While the Sun Shines
  • August (6)
    • The Gravity of a Restaurant
    • Now whoever thought of doing that?
    • Now whoever thought of doing that?
    • Knowing What Business You Are In
    • Knowing What Business You Are In
    • Four Years and a shot of Dimple Pinch
  • July (8)
    • Mortadella
    • Mortadella
    • One of these things is not like the other
    • Wait and See
    • Relief
    • The Peter Principle
    • No news is good news
    • I get by with a little help from my friends
  • June (3)
    • All that glitters is not gold
    • Charcutepalooza - Stuffing Sausage
    • Why I agree
  • May (7)
    • Gratitude: One Year Later
    • Why eating for pleasure is your best hedge against gluttony.
    • The Culture Code
    • It’s our own fault
    • Go ahead and say it
    • Going off code
    • Defining Your Success
  • April (3)
    • Adopting vs Adapting
    • Understanding what it is you do
    • So how’s Karen doing?
  • March (5)
    • Learning to say I can’t
    • Changes of the Season
    • Why you should hear this band
    • The Craft of Brining
    • Making Local a Habit
  • February (5)
    • Alone in my restaurant
    • Bacon
    • Happy Valentine's Day 2011
    • Current Inspirations
    • Winner of our 1st Annual bread&cup Graphic Design Contest
  • January (7)
    • How Blue Man Group helped create bread&cup
    • January Charcutepalooza Challenge - Duck Proscuitto
    • Why stay open during a snow storm?
    • So how is Karen doing?
    • Starting the New Year Right - Part II
    • Abundance or Scarcity?
    • Starting the New Year Right
• 2010 (104)
  • December (8)
    • How to deal with negative criticism: Anonymity
    • How to deal with negative criticism
    • The Problem with a Concept Like Ours….
    • New Year's Eve at bread&cup
    • Scroogie McGrincherson
    • All I Ever Get For Christmas is Blue
    • The Security of Treatment
    • Gawd, look at all that food...
  • November (9)
    • Restaurant tools that work at home - The Deli Cup
    • That for which we are thankful
    • Restaurant tools that work at home
    • I'd like to split those, please...
    • Inspiration = the drawing in of air, as in breathing
    • How to leave a job
    • It needs a bit more salt
    • The Secret Ingredient
    • The Push
  • October (6)
    • Charlie bit me…
    • What do you want to be when you grow up?
    • Why you may want to think about going into the food business
    • on being labeled a Food Snob
    • The First Finish Line
    • Stored Potential
  • September (6)
    • Why I did Groupon
    • Monday, Monday
    • Helping you get through winter
    • Technological Discretion
    • Game Day
    • How to Fire a Customer
  • August (7)
    • The Perfect Storm
    • Day 65
    • Welcome, Erik
    • Eat until you're hungry
    • Blue Woman Group
    • From Here to There
    • Inception
  • July (11)
    • I hate to burst your bubble...
    • Remembering the process
    • Three Years
    • The taste of summer
    • I'll take another cup...
    • Day 24
    • ...there is no place to eat breakfast downtown...
    • What aspiring chefs need to know about their career
    • On schedule
    • Why I write
    • There is no "supposed to"
  • June (8)
    • ...and a scotch for the gentleman
    • A drink out of the hose
    • How would you describe your food?
    • How am I supposed to feel?
    • Look before you leap; back with a knack
    • Ready For The Fight
    • My Favorite Fruit
    • The Luck of the Irish
  • May (18)
    • Holiday Weekend as a Chef
    • A New Chapter
    • Market Photos
    • How much longer...?
    • What I like about cooking from the Market
    • 25 cents a bale
    • The Road to Market to Table
    • The Road to Market to Table
    • The Road to Market to Table
    • The Road to Market to Table
    • The Road to Market to Table
    • The Road to Market to Table
    • The Road to Market to Table
    • The Road to Market to Table
    • The Road to Market to Table
    • The Road to Market to Table
    • The Road to Market to Table
    • A New Title
  • April (5)
    • Time off
    • The Growing Season
    • The Sustained Chef
    • 20
    • Boy, he sure seems grumpy today...
  • March (9)
    • When the customer is absolutely right
    • When the customer isn’t always right
    • Sticking to the plan
    • This Offal is Awful
    • So you want my job?
    • Inserted back into the Matrix
    • Excuse me, but could you tell me where the...
    • The Definition of a Gastropub
    • Chicago
  • February (10)
    • An Evening with Woodsmoke
    • A game of inches
    • Why I’m voting Yes on the new Haymarket Arena
    • Breathe in; Breathe out
    • Objective #4 for 2010
    • Making Pasta from Scratch
    • What the Chef does on his day off
    • Objective #3 for 2010
    • Objective #2 for 2010
    • The Kitchen and the Table
  • January (7)
    • Objective #1 for 2010
    • The Stomach and the Soul
    • May I have an application, please?
    • Goodbye
    • First Slow Meal of 2010
    • Maybe I'm just an optimist...
    • Happy New Year
• 2009 (67)
  • December (7)
    • New Year's Eve 2009
    • Vince Guiraldi and a 471
    • It Doesn't Feel That Cold In Here...
    • Let Me Digress...
    • A Word About Substitutions
    • Put Bisquick on the list...
    • 41 said it was bland...
  • November (5)
    • One Thing
    • It's not gross tasting, is it?
    • A friend of mine raves about this place...
    • Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner...
    • You have 12 Mac n cheese all day...
  • October (4)
    • Fifty Five Degrees and Counting
    • Cause her hair was black and her eyes were blue..
    • Irish Music in a German dug cave
    • Back off the throttle just a bit, son
  • September (4)
    • Bringing the Season to a Close
    • Supply and Demand
    • Monks and Chefs
    • Mild, with a low of 55 degrees
  • August (5)
    • The Face of bread & cup
    • Thanks, Kerry
    • Thanks, Julie
    • Alive and well in Lincoln, NE
    • Thanks, Kris
  • July (4)
    • To the aspiring chef
    • Fresh Hops
    • Thoughts about Panera Bread
    • Stage, with an "ah"
  • June (5)
    • Aim High, Trojans.
    • What, did you steal that pan from a hotel?
    • More than just tying on the feedbag...
    • Order in
    • 72 and sunny.
  • May (4)
    • Order up for 62
    • Market Meal Photos
    • On Fungus and Fireworks
    • How We Plan a Market Meal
  • April (4)
    • The Economy
    • Working in the kitchen
    • Why we travel.
    • More on Ireland
  • March (10)
    • In Memory of Travis Hendrick 1928 - 2009, Part II
    • In Memory of Travis Hendrick 1928 - 2009
    • It keeps getting better...
    • Day 3
    • We have an Irish President?
    • Made It Here
    • 15 hours
    • Modern Monks St Meinrad Belgian Quadruppel
    • Jobs I Never Want To Do
  • February (12)
    • Keep the heat low all morning
    • More with malted wheat
    • Malted Wheat
    • What did you do on your day off?
    • 86 the Pork Loin
    • A pleasant surprise
    • Reservations are fully booked...
    • Did you know we are low on...
    • Printer is out of paper...
    • Is the oven at the right temp? Check it again...
    • There will be about a 30 minute wait
    • Brandywine, Rutgers, and Principe Borghese
  • January (3)
    • Downtime
    • Reading
    • Kernel & Grain
• 2008 (76)
  • December (3)
    • Miles Davis, Anchor Steam and a Quiet Restaurant
    • What I mean, not what I say
    • Gramma, can I pump the water?
  • November (5)
    • Old Stock, Bill Evans Trio, and a Few Thankful Thoughts
    • Do Less in More Time
    • Do as I say, and as I do
    • Staying Put for the Winter
    • Maybe you should have left 30 minutes ago
  • October (6)
    • On baking bread and building guitars
    • Our next Slow Meal, Thurs, November 20
    • Chef & Artist
    • Making Pasta
    • Learning to fly when you ain't got wings
    • Soup List for October
  • September (9)
    • Ben Bernanke and Green Bean Casserole
    • Whole Food
    • Bourdain, the World Herald and the need for more bread
    • A Nice Way to Start the Weekend
    • Heirloom Pumpkin with Apple, Sage & Coconut Relish
    • Chicken in the bread pan pickin out dough
    • How did I ever live without it?
    • Bread and Cup's smells, plates, bottles overfloweth - Arts & Entertainment
    • The frost is on the pumpkin, and the hay is in the barn...
  • August (9)
    • Cherry Tomato and Walnut Pasta Sauce with Honey & Lime
    • How to kill your restaurant (or any business for that matter)
    • A Monday Afternoon Drive
    • Working for the weekend
    • Restoration
    • The importance of a father
    • All you can eat for $4.99
    • It smells good in here
    • No regrets
  • July (9)
    • We got a man down
    • 120 gallons of sauce
    • Saturday’s Market Meal
    • Order up
    • Dave
    • Two sides of the coin
    • The Kitchen Garden
    • New improved website
    • Green Scrubbie Things
  • June (7)
    • @!#$@#$
    • Market Meal for Saturday, June 21
    • Thank you, Dad
    • Market Meal for Saturday, June 14
    • Place the 6 and 8 and give me all the hardways
    • Tonight’s Market Meal
    • Saturday Market Meal
  • May (7)
    • Hanging out your shingle.
    • New website soon
    • But I hate asparagus...
    • Tonight's Market Meal
    • How I build a soup
    • Breasts vs Thighs
    • Chefs and Bakers
  • April (7)
    • Working for the weekend
    • Let me tell you why we do it this way...
    • Coming Soon...
    • No Weekend Entree
    • Could you wipe that down?
    • The Soul of a Chef
    • First Friday in April
  • March (6)
    • The challenge of eating food
    • Eat when you're hungry
    • Next Slow Meal
    • New Soup Schedule
    • New Soups for Spring
    • bread&butter
  • February (4)
    • A Slow Meal - March 15th
    • Announcing Modern Monks Arctic Storm
    • Plant a garden
    • Why Miles Davis?
  • January (4)
    • Icons
    • Cold
    • Bread Shapes
    • Soup
• 2007 (78)
  • December (7)
    • Simply good coffee
    • Cinnamon Rolls
    • Tour bread&cup
    • 5 Tools I Won't Do Without
    • Freezers and Microwaves
    • Back to normal
    • Still Open
  • November (3)
    • Beer and the Monks
    • Stories
    • An Ideal Holiday
  • October (2)
    • Where am I?
    • Long hours and sore feet
  • September (4)
    • Revolution
    • Soup season
    • Simple Advice
    • What's it worth to you?
  • August (14)
    • Perspective
    • Wine & Husker Football
    • What do you want to do when you grow up?
    • The Influence of a Garden
    • 08 16 07
    • 3 Hats
    • Thanks!
    • Making Babies
    • The First Few Days
    • Now Open
    • Will it be today?
    • Not Yet.
    • Remembering Dad
    • Before and almost After
  • July (7)
    • Inspection
    • Countdown to Friday
    • Catch-22
    • Paying Attention
    • We are hiring good people.
    • Opening
    • Red Pop
  • June (5)
    • "You know, my grandmother used to make this....."
    • Making memories
    • Mission Statement
    • Feedback
    • Sky
  • May (3)
    • Recreation
    • Construction progress
    • What is simple food and drink?
  • April (7)
    • Grass
    • Carbs
    • The Pursuit of Happyness
    • Inside the space
    • Dogs and Fire Hydrants
    • Beer
    • Peeps
  • March (12)
    • Wine
    • Coffee
    • Cheese
    • When to eat at bread&cup
    • How to eat at bread&cup.
    • The Name
    • The Calm before the Storm
    • An environment where we would LOVE to bring our friends.
    • Serve food we LOVE to make and eat.
    • Getting Warmer
    • A workplace in which we LOVE working.
    • What's at the core?
  • February (12)
    • The Symbol II
    • The Symbol
    • The Logo
    • Brrrr!
    • The Paradox of Choice
    • A Very Small Farm
    • Good News
    • Pesky Seed Catalogs
    • Cold and Snowy
    • Dream Fatigue
    • 8th & "s"
    • In that dumpy place?
  • January (2)
    • Location 6
    • Location 2a