#brooks headley

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Universal Order of Armageddon - switch is down 12", 1994

[midirecovery]

Wrangler Brutes house show 2004

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Universal Order Of Armageddon - No Longer Stranger

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Superiority Burger Cookbook | Brooks Headley

[oldpunksgoodstyle]

The Dessert Psycho

I’ve worked in just enough restaurants to recognize an abnormally large pastry station when I see one. It was January, and I was standing in

It was an overexposed recipe—“cornball” in Headley lingo—that had already been used on the savory side, to compliment a serving of goose liver. His research would determine if, and how, it could be incorporated into a dessert. Mark Ladner arrived and jovially discussed the licorice cake. Ladner is a tall man with a quiet presence and an almost military bearing. Brooks had earlier compared him to drummer Chuck Biscuits, meaning: the unsung workhorse of a powerhouse organization. Mark tried some of the licorice cake and commented on its peculiar texture, likening it to cotton candy. Startlingly, he asked my opinion. I took a bite. The creation was so light and spongy that it flirted with nonexistence, tasting of molasses with a faint, ghostly licorice aftertaste. As we three stood there discussing the nuances of something far, far beyond my level of experience, I realized my hooded sweatshirt had a stray cat hair I’d pollinated from California, which I discretely palmed and dropped in the trash with a flush of shame. I spoke with Ladner later. I asked him if any one particular item had grabbed his attention during those initial tastings. “His use of fruit tasted really, really true,” he replied. This was the kind of sentence I would have rolled my eyes at years ago. Coming from Ladner’s deep, imposing voice—and backed with my own limited experience at Del Posto—it made complete sense. The word “true” is one of a handful of adjectives I could myself truthfully use to describe the samples I’d tasted in that kitchen. “And he wasn’t scared to use salt. Until the point where it’s salty, it’s sort of enhancing the flavor of the other components. So he was able to get these hyper flavors out of some fruits that weren’t even necessarily that great. But with the addition of a little bit of extra acid and a little bit of salt, he was able to sort of make these things explode without manipulating them too much.”

[questlovesfood]

Questlovesfood Salon Ep. 5 | Featuring April Bloomfield, Wolvesmouth, and Brooks Headley

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Ink portraits of Dan Barber, Brooks Headley and Meds Refsland for Mental_Floss

Ink on watercolor paper.

4″X7″

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Fresh off his Food 52 Piglet Cookbook Tournament victory, pastry chef and former Born Against Drummer BROOKS HEADLEY is our podcast guest this week.  We met him last week at the All Star Chef Classic in Los Angeles where he was part of a lunch to benefit City of Hope. Afterwards we sat down and chatted about music, selling out, and his cookbook Fancy Desserts- which is littered with tons of music related awesomeness, from a forward by Steve Albini to tons of old band fliers from his days in Born Against and Universal Order of Armageddon.

Download the episode now on iTunes or by putting our RSS FEED into a player of your choice. Or if you’re too lazy for all of that, you can stream the episode below…