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Epic Meal Time
Posted in fish, popular culture, Video Also tagged Epic Meal Time, fish and chips, jamie oliver Comments closed
Friday Cocktail Hour: Pink Lady
(from a cool new digital book)
I first read about a new self-published iBook, 25 Classic Cocktails, published to iTunes, when Tampa journalist Jeff Houck wrote about entrepreneurial food people turning to digital devices. Donna and I recently published The Book of Schmaltz to the iTunes app store, a short cookbook on making and cooking with rendered chicken fat, an underappreciated cooking technique. Meanwhile, ingenious folks in Tampa came together to publish a book whose title requires no explanation.
But the book does warrant explanation. Each recipe, some common, some I hadn't heard of (one per screen), includes the recipe, a very brief history, one instructional video of the drink made and one quick montage video. At the bottom of the screen is a fat bar that, when tapped, ...
Posted in Books, Cocktails, Video Also tagged 25 classic cocktails, book, Clover Club, itunes, Pink Lady, recipes Comments closed
Home Cooks’ Biggest Disadvantage
Dull knives. It's the single biggest problem in home kitchens. The. Single. Biggest. Problem. It's the main reason cooking seems more difficult than it should be. And I'll say this again, too. Guys and girls, the best Valentine's Day gift you can give your lover/cook, get his/her knives professionally sharpened or buy a good sharpener. Again: Nothing says "I love you" like a really sharp knife. I get mine—I use Wusthof, btw—professionally sharpened at a wet-grind sharpening place, and OpenSky found this astonishingly effective and easy-to-use sharpening "stone," called the DMT Sharpening Stone. (It's not really a stone, but rather a patented diamond-dust coated perforated steel sheet on rubber; see video below.) If you have to saw on a lemon rind to get the ...
Posted in Kitchen Tips, Kitchen Tools, Video Also tagged How to Sharpen a Knife, knife, sharpen, sharpening stone, skill Comments closed
Cranberry Harvest
Posted in american regional cuisine, Business, Farming, Food Business, Food History, Video Also tagged bogs, cranberries, how to, Yahoo Comments closed
Next: Kaiseki
Posted in chefs, Ethnic Cuisine, Food Adventure, Restaurants Also tagged Chicago, japanese, Kaiseki, Next Comments closed

















