About Us

Simple Food, Simple Guys is a food and cooking blog, straight from the fevered and twisted minds of the Perry boys: Brent and David. We both happen to like cooking, and at some point during a frenzied night of “taste testing” various and many lovely wines, thought that starting a blog to detail out this interest would be a good idea. How wrong we were.

Turns out that blogs are hard work when you’re as lazy as we are. Not only do you have to set up the stupid blog, but then you have to think up stuff to (regularly) put in it. And to top it off, you have to pen a completely narcissistic “About Us” section, so that other people who are just tuning in know what’s going on.

Well, here goes…

The title of our blog, as well as our philosophy on cooking, is that the best approach to food is usually the simplest. Simple (and therefore, natural) ingredients, combined with some simple, uncluttered processes = good chow. In order to teach ourselves a little extra “sumpin” about cooking, we are chronicling the ins and outs on this here blog, and in the process hope to become a little bit more adept and proficient in the kitchen. In fact, we invite you to join us on this journey.

In addition, we are using this site as an outlet to discuss food and drink items in general. Plus, as self-proclaimed beer snobs and wine guzzlers, you can expect some random outbursts about liquid food as well, so hide the kids before our rambling becomes saucy.

Well, that about covers it, I think. If you have any questions for us, please don’t hesitate to ask. Bon Appetit!

Brent & David

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Food Books We Like

  • Fast Food Nation
    Think there's nothing harmful about frequenting the drive-thru for your meals? Here's some well researched info you might want to consider.
  • Food Matters
    Much in the vein of Pollan's In Defense Of Food, Mark Bittman examines our current nutritional landscape and proposes why (and how) we should be cooking our own, healthy food. Recipes included.
  • Gourmet Today
    We're gonna try our best to cook through this mammoth tome!
  • In Defense Of Food
    Michael Pollan's follow-up to The Omnivore's Dilemma, this book takes the knowledge learned about food and food production, and turns it into practical advice for how to eat more healthfully.
  • The Art Of Simple Food
    An excellent cookbook covering the basics of cooking, technique and eating quality food. We like this book's style.
  • The Omnivore's Dilemma
    Michael Pollan's examination of the different ways we as humans can feed ourselves, and the effects that choice has on our lifestyles.

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Food, History, Money and Math

Posted by David on 2009-10-19

Gourmet TodayWhen last we left you, I teased a new feature/series/focus for the website related to a new cookery book of almost mythic girth. A thousand-page testament to food on paper that we would not only use in exercise by simply picking up, but also something that we would be cooking from. And I’m here to tell you a little bit more about that.

The title in question is a lime-green offering by the name of Gourmet Today. And oddly enough, it arrived on my doorstep just a handful of days after its namesake magazine closed its doors…

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Call To Action

Posted by David on 2009-02-03

Ok, in order to get this blog started off right, I think we need to begin by issuing a call to action.

If you’re reading this site, it probably means one of two things: (1) you know one or both of us personally, find us both physically and mentally irresistible, and would therefore probably read any site that we started, be it for competitive yoga or minutia on historical tantric chant; or (2) you are interested in food and cooking. We’re going to assume that most of you are in the latter group, mainly for tax purposes.

Which leaves us with food. I like to think that we’re all food lovers here, and as such we should have some interest in spreading that excitement around a little…

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