Category — Culinary

In addition to Cinco de Mayo and Memorial Day, May hosts yet another spectacular celebratory occasion. It’s officially salad month! But, if you’ve found salads just too boring to celebrate in the past, the Association for Dressings & Sauces (ADS) offers a number of ways to make this dish more tantalizing to your palate. Moreover, with the right combination, your salad can deliver healthier, more youthful skin.

The ADS has spotlighted the nutritional benefits of salad ingredients that you can toss together for a rejuvenating meal:

Romaine

Plenty of potassium, [Read more →]

For some people, an education in culinary arts institutes or cooking schools can improve their quality of life. This is regardless of whether the student is just taking a few classes to improve on his cooking skills or genuinely interested to pursue a degree course. It also does not matter if the person was born with a natural talent for cooking or simply not very good at it. It is never too late or early to start seeking out opportunities in the culinary field.

Most of the local culinary arts institutes hold recreational classes in a fun manner for absolute beginners or amateur chefs. These are ordinary people who love food and just want to learn how to cook better. Such courses usually cover the basic aspects of cooking and the essence of good nutrition. The students will learn how to prepare healthy meals and snacks for [Read more →]

When I was a freshman in college my father had a heart attack. This was in the late 1970’s and bi-pass surgery was a new procedure. The only place in our area that you could have the procedure performed was at the University hospital. This is a teaching hospital and so there are many innovative procedures that are preformed there. The hospital receives patients from

all over the United States so there was a four month waiting list prior to dad’s surgery. He was sent home with medication and a restricted diet. Suddenly my mother was looking for healthy recipes to cook. This was a great change for her because she used a great deal of butter and salt in her cooking, and they ate out in restaurants a great deal. Neither one of my parents had ever given a thought about healthy recipes and fat or salt content in their foods.

The heart attack really frightened my mother. She was determined that dad would regain his strength and be healthier. [Read more →]

This article treats one of the world’s most successful marketing campaigns – the French red wine that arrives just in time for Thanksgiving, Beaujolais Nouveau. At one minute past midnight on the third Thursday in November, this wine is released for sale. Talk about market share, in the next 24 hours over one million cases will be sold. During the coming year, consumers all over the world will buy more than 65 million bottles. There will be about 4 million bottles exported to the United States, and 7 million to Japan and to Germany. About seven hundred thousand bottles will be exported to Italy, which makes a similar wine, Vino Novello, reviewed in our article I Love Italian Wine and Food – Vino Novello (New Wine).

What is exactly is new wine, whether Beaujolais Nouveau, Vino Novello, or some other, similar product? New wine is the first of the harvest, released in early November. The exact date depends on the country. New wines are produced by a special method, [Read more →]

Locating good Arizona Diet Green Tea info and suggestions can be a burdensome task. Although internet searches provide tons of content relative to this subject, it is often too perplexing to understand. This article will help minimize the difficulty of searching through the bevy of pages returned by a standard web search and present the information you need about benefits of green tea.

Even noting the possible health benefits of a green tea diet, many people are apprehensive to make the drink a part of their diet. A few decline because of the strange taste of green tea. Others simply do not want to give up the trusty cup of java that they are so accustom to no matter what the benefits. You will be excited to know that any taste issues you might have had in the past with traditional green [Read more →]

For some time now I have been watching an Emmy-winning television personality and author who hosts at least four different programs on U.S. cable television’s Food Network. Rachael Domenica Ray, has become one of my favorite culinary experts as her energetic personality and her smile have been enough to keep me in front of the TV screen to watch her teach simple recipes that she claims can be prepared in thirty minutes or less.

Being an amateur cook myself, I was pleased to discover that she shared the same view that I have in relation to food measuring. As she emphasized, “it takes away from the creative, hands-on process of cooking.” Her “eyeball it” expression has stayed with me every time I am about to experiment with something new and taste my efforts. Even though she has been heavily criticized for her appearance, her voice, her [Read more →]

In 1827 “theine” was discovered. It had close to the same effects as caffeine in coffee and we actually know it as black tea caffeine. As time went on it was discovered that it was actually tantamount to caffeine and so the term has been dropped.

By drinking black tea caffeine a person can receive relief from fatigue. It has been shown to be a stimulant, to increase speed in reaction time, increase alertness, and to improve concentration.

There are also some physical effects. It stimulates the digestive juices, the kidneys, and the metabolism. This means it could [Read more →]

Often times people will describe their taste in wine, and when they describe their ideal white wine, they will say “I like Chardonnay”. Of course, there are a growing number of wine drinkers that are saying “ABC” or “Anything But Chardonnay” a backlash to the prevalence of the wine, but that is another matter. This very commonly used grape is used broadly across California, France and Australia, but while it may be similar in being grown, what comes to consumers in the bottle is often different than they might expect.

California Chardonnay is what most Americans think of when they describe their taste in the wine. California Chardonnay is commonly (but not always) described as creamy, buttery, oaky, with vanilla and honey notes. The main reason for this is really in the fermentation process. The secondary fermentation process is called [Read more →]