Source: Washington City Paper Young & Hungry
Chef Jeremiah Langhorne pulls a thick red book with gold-embossed lettering out of a wooden drawer. The spine is broken, but he’s patched it up with clear packing tape. The pages are yellowing. It looks kind of like a Bible.
“No one is allowed to touch it. I’ve used the hell out of it. It’s falling apart, “ Langhorne says. “I love this book. It’s very humbling to read this book.”
Langhorne is talking about his own bible of sorts: Housekeeping in Old Virginia, a cookbook first published in 1897. The Virginia native flips through to show the Langhorne ...