A Guide to Exotic Fruits For Chefs

We will explore the fruit varieties of the world which are far removed from the usual fare. For the bold, the creative, or the daring gourmand…
Hautbois – Or “musk strawberry” to we common folk. Musk strawberries grow wild in forests in and around Central Europe, Scandinavia, and Russia. The gourmet community has held it in [...]

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Ideas For Cookware And Selling Recipes

If she’d just like to sell recipes, not food, there are a few potential markets, many newspapers and magazines offer a recipe column, some grocery stores provide free recipe cards as a service to customers, and a growing number of internet sites will pay for contributions. She can contact editors, webmasters, and managers of publications [...]

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A Chefs Guide to Sweeteners

The Industrialized world is obsessed with diets, and yet has the raging sweet tooth of a child. Everybody wants non-fattening food that tastes fat. And so here we are in the industrial age, working our laboratories round-the-clock to come up with a way to have the taste without the calories. This has given us a [...]

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Chef Career – A Chefs Guide to Exotic Fruits

Ah, the everyday fruits at the English-speaking table: apple, orange, banana. Tangerine, peach, strawberry. Maybe a bunch of grapes or the occasional kiwi. As anyone can see, the fruit table at the typical banquet is stuck in a rut. We haven’t seen nearly enough exotic offerings to invigorate our taste buds with a new experience… [...]

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The Distinct Advantages Of The Ceramic Tea Kettle

Tea kettles are one of the oldest pieces of kitchenware. In fact, recent archaeological finds suggest that tea kettles might even date back to the time when tea was first discovered in Ancient China.
The earliest form of tea kettle were stone earthenware pots. Later on, stone teapots were replaced by porcelain. Porcelain tea kettles were [...]

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A Restauranteur's Eye View of Vodka

To get one thing straight off the top, there should be two ingredients in vodka: water and alcohol. Barring any flavoring ingredients, of course. And the two kinds of ingredients you can get the alcohol from are either potatoes or grain. Potatoes were used first, in part because potatoes are almost the only crop they [...]

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