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May 25, 2011
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Dear Food Lovers,
For our featured recipes, we thought we’d feature Filipino cuisine. Not everyone is familiar with the food of our Filipino friends, but let us tell you – Filipino dishes are DELICIOUS! Just delicious! You should check out these recipes and you will also love them. We recommend the adobo.
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Bangladeshi firms have joined Chinese and other companies looking to lease farmland in Africa as part of efforts to feed a growing population and offset creeping urbanisation at home. The inaugural Los Angeles Times and Food & Wine’s THE TASTE is set to bring together last year’s most successful Southern California gastronomic events and the creators behind them. Google provided The Times with a snapshot of the most popular searches in one week in late March, removing queries that seemed like spam. There are three main types of oatmeal to choose from in the cereal aisle of the grocery store: regular oatmeal, quick cooking oatmeal and instant oatmeal. What kind of oatmeal is the best for baking? Not only eating vegetarian food on the Vesak Day or Buddha’s birthday (May 16), many people in HCM City decide to take vegetarian in the entire fourth lunar month to wish for peace. The year has brought a rush of new recipe search engines designed to solve dining challenges. But will they evaluate the recipes the way a good cook would? Here’s a look at some search engines. Plus, a recipe for Double Asparagus Vinaigrette. Gaba rice producer applies new techniques to ancient wisdom to create healthier grain. What’s in a name; they are called Jiozi in Beijing, pearl balls in Shanghai or spicy huntuns in Szechuan but for us these soft steamed stuffed dumplings are momos. Nothing tastes as good as fresh homemade butter on your garden veggies or just made whipped cream to dollop on your home grown strawberries. You can make your own butter from raw cream from your cow or a share in a cow from a local homesteader. The kitchen steward is responsible for cleaning the kitchen filters, but cleaning this is not just about wiping the grime and dust off. Here is a detailed process of cleaning the kitchen filters and why it should be done. RECIPES!!!
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Archive | May 2011
CBD Ezine: What is Adria’s Final Menu?
Posted on 26 May 2011.
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CBD Ezine: What’s Next for El Bulli?
Posted on 19 May 2011.
May 19, 2011
Perhaps, like we are, you are a huge fan of Ferran Adria as well. Not everyone has tasted the succulent feast that El Bulli has to offer. So, it doesn’t really sit well with any foodie to hear about El Bulli closing. So, what is up with El Bulli? What is next for Ferran Adria? In honor of the greatness that is Adria, we included several articles on El Bulli in this week’s ezine. But that’s not all. Check out the article on the robot waiter or Harvey, the 10-year-old published cookbook author. These are really interesting posts.
May 19, 2011, Volume 1, Issue 69
Your editor: Matthew Goudge, matthew@chefblogdigest.com
Featured Articles
- After El Bulli, a Sweet Taste of Life
- Food Oscars give nod to Jose Andres, Danny Meyer
- Harvey 10-year-old is published cookbook author
- Why Pastry Chefs Are the New Rock Stars
- The Diet Secrets of Foodies
- Cooking With Green Garlic
- The Rise Of The Robo-Waiter
- What next for El Bulli?
- Le Fooding for thought
- El Bulli: the gruelling tasks behind the famed culinary creations
- Chief Steward Checklist
- Book Review: Deceptively Delicious – Simple Secrets to Get Your Kids Eating Good Food by Jessica Seinfeld
- 45th Pillsbury Bake-Off® Contest Lets You Be the Judge
America to Help Decide 10 of the Final 100 Creative Recipes Competing for the $1 Million Grand Prize
- New rules usher in a tasty comeback for Cuban food
After years spent working in dreary state-run restaurants and hush-hush culinary speakeasies, restaurateurs and chefs are operating under a set of new, less exacting rules that allow their talents freer reign.
- Top Chef Canada Angers Viewers with Horsemeat Dish
A Top Chef Canada show set to air May 16 featuring a French horse meat dish sparks outrage and controversy about eating horses.
- Top 10 Beverage Stocks with Highest Return on Assets: HANS, BORN, ABV, KO, SAM, FIZZ, AKO.A, BF.B, CCU, DEO (May 15, 2011)
Listed here are the top 10 Beverage stocks with highest Return on Assets ratio (ROA) for the last 12 months, UPDATED TODAY before 4:30 AM ET. ROA shows a company’s efficiency in making profits from its assets. It is equal to net profits divided by total assets. One Chinese company (BORN) is on the list.
- Foodies vs. Techies
- 12 Seriously Tasty Apps for Foodies
Here is you essential guide to social media for foodie.
- Three Simple Tips for Making Raw Food Recipes for Beginners
Though these recipes may be intimidating at first glance, there are four easy tips that can help beginners navigate complicated recipes and create simple raw food recipes for beginners.
- Riesling and Chardonnay: The Most Popular White Wines
When thinking about white wines, Riesling and Chardonnay probably come to mind first, with Pinot Grigio coming in a close third.
- Make Good Homemade Red Wine - Cheap and Easy
How about some good homemade red wine for about $2 a bottle? No problem. I am not talking about using an inferior grape or grape juice. I’m talking about wine from a vinifera grape, the best grapes in the world for wine making.
- How to taste cheese like an expert: Get a journal
Forget James Beard and Julia Child. When it comes to American cookery, I’m for their foe: Poppy Cannon, food editor of Ladies’ Home Journal and House Beautiful and much-mocked author of “The Can-Opener Cookbook.”
Keeping a cheese journal has multiple functions – most obviously, you can keep track of cheeses you like.
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CBD Ezine: Do you regard yourself as a foodie elitist?
Posted on 12 May 2011.
Wednesday, May 12, 2011
May 12, 2011, Volume 1, Issue 68
Your editor: Matthew Goudge, matthew@chefblogdigest.com
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- Benefits of Joining Culinary Associations
- What is the best restaurant in the USA?
- Alain Ducasse Takes Center Stage at Cannes
- Inside Pepsi’s Secret Labs: Taste Robots, Bee Larvae And More
- Food Detective: Going for grotesque in cuisine
- L.A. Times Test Kitchen Tips: Storing potatoes
- Wines to wash down oysters
- The Duck Starts Here
- From outer space to Brazil: Why Kraft is taking Tang to Pernambuco
- Why Being a Foodie Isn’t Elitist
- Restaurants
- The Amish Cook: Whole family pitches in to help plant the garden
- Cleaning the Kitchen Trolley
- 25 Mispronounced Foodie Words
- The Perfect Roast Chicken
- Kids’ Food and Beverage Market to Grow 40% by 2015
- Malaysia’s Kitchen Programmes Can Be Used For Food Diplomacy
- Make Good Homemade Red Wine – Cheap and Easy
- Coffee and 10 Health Facts
The “elitist” epithet is a familiar line of attack. In the decade since my book “Fast Food Nation” was published, I’ve been called not only an elitist, but also a socialist, a communist and un-American.
When Tony Brenner perused his “automatic reject” list in March 2010, he decided to check out what was going on with one of the stocks that had been forgotten about by most of the investment world: Krispy Kreme Doughnuts Inc.
Lovina Eicher, a member of the Old Order Amish, hand-writes this column from her Michigan home.
Of course, as in anything found inside the kitchen, the kitchen trolleys and carts should also be washed and clean appropriately to ensure cleanliness.
Pronunciation can be tricky and many of us can go our whole lives mispronouncing basic words. As I eat my way through the world, I don’t want to be the one who is still asking their server for a knee-coise salad and a glass of pee-not nor.
Here’s a few more tips to ensure you achieve perfection in your kitchen.
Kids Food and Beverage Market in the U.S. by market research publisher Packaged Facts cites recent developments as evidence that the industry is on the brink of a breakthrough and growth of 40% is expected from 2010 to 2015.
The Malaysian External Trade Development Corporation (Matrade) must be lauded for popularising Malaysian food through its much-publicised Malaysian Kitchen Programme which has entered into its second year.
How about some good homemade red wine for about $2 a bottle? No problem. Let’s do some home wine making
To learn more about the health impact of coffee, keep reading for 10 critical health facts about coffee.
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CBD Ezine: Do You Know How Modernist Cuisine Came About?
Posted on 06 May 2011.
Wednesday, May 6, 2011
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May 6, 2011, Volume 1, Issue 67
Your editor: Matthew Goudge, matthew@chefblogdigest.com
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- Eat by type: 6 new Singapore restaurants
- Are you happy with just desserts?
- 36 Hours in Singapore
- Bee force’ set up to stop dangerous threat
- Tips to Keep Your Kitchen Safe and Clean
- Restaurants Serving Up Social Media Connections
- S. Pellegrino World’s 50 Best Restaurants 2011
- Modernist Cuisine: Taking the Culinary World by Storm
- Asia offers growth opportunities for chain restaurants, finds Technomic
- Tips for Buying Real Extra Virgin Olive Oil
- McDonalds, Starbucks, Subway rank as biggest chain restaurants
- A Book of Recipes Gathered From Holocaust Survivors
- Combo Plate: Jamie Oliver delivers, sea salt myths and more
- London Chefs Raise Money for Victims in Japan, Australia, N.Z.
- Restaurant app wins OnStar student competition
- Come on, Aussie, come on
- Thomas Keller on Chefs and the Modern Definition of Success
- Argentina wins 12-year Rioja wine dispute
- Why Wood Pulp Makes Ice Cream Creamier
How can consumers be sure they are purchasing the highest-quality extra virgin olive oil? One expert, Ruth Mercurio, managing partner of We Olive, a premier retailer of California olive oil, recommends the following tips.
McDonalds, Subway and Starbucks are now the top three largest-selling chain restaurant in the United States. Darren Tristano of Technomic explains.
Recipe books based on the memories of Holocaust survivors might seem to trivialize the horror. But Dr. Ruth Westheimer, one of the survivors featured in “Recipes Remembered: A Celebration of Survival,” said that food represents identity for these people who did not have a real homeland.
Jamie Oliver scores: TV chef Jamie Oliver joined L.A. schools Supt. John Deasy as he announced that, starting next fall, LAUSD will no longer offer chocolate- and strawberry-flavored milk.
London chefs and restaurateurs are seeking to raise money for the victims of natural disasters, including last month’s tsunami in Japan, floods and fires in Australia and the earthquake in New Zealand.
A group on MIT students developed an app that lets OnStar subscribers search for restaurants and make reservations without needing to talk to the maitre d’.
The dust has settled on this year’s S. Pellegrino World’s 50 Best Restaurants Awards, held in London on April 18, 2011. Where to, from here? And where does Australia fit in a list of the world’s best restaurants, now and in the future?
The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books took place this past weekend at U.S.C, and while this annual event is more about the authors than the food, Eater camped out at the Cooking Stage to stalk listen to Sir Thomas Keller promote his cookbook Ad Hoc at Home.
Argentina has won the right to label its wines La Rioja following a 12 year diplomatic and legal battle with the Spanish wine-producing region of the same name.
What is often in shredded cheese besides cheese? Powdered cellulose: minuscule pieces of wood pulp or other plant fibers that coat the cheese and keep it from clumping by blocking out moisture.
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