January 7, 2011 · 12:17 pm
Finally Friday! That’s the good news – more snow is the bad. We, however, will focus on food as is our custom to end the week.
There’s a show on the Food Network called Worst Cooks in America. The premise of the program is that 2 professional chefs teach incompetent amateur cooks basic culinary skills and if the amateurs don’t learn they get tossed off the show. Not that I’m a pro, but the contestants they brought to the program seem to have trouble making toast or peanut butter sandwiches. The show is fun even if one wants to feel a bit better about one’s own meager skills but it turns out there was a business lesson as well. Continue reading →
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December 17, 2010 · 11:36 am
Let’s end the week with some drinks. It’s Friday and that’s sort of food-related, right? I’ve written before about the “Eat This Not That” series which took a foray into the world of cocktails the other day. Turns out there was a business point to be made along with all the health talk. The newsletter featured four of the world’s healthiest cocktails since, as they put it, if you’re going for the buzz, you might as well get some benefits right? Not so much. Continue reading →
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December 3, 2010 · 12:08 pm
Today’s Foodie Friday question is pretty simple: what do chocolate chip cookies and molten chocolate cake have in common (other than the chocolate)? Given today’s headline, this really shouldn’t be too difficult. Right! They were both mistakes. In the case of the cookies, the baker at the Toll House Inn was trying to make chocolate cookies and ran out of block baker’s chocolate to melt. She tried adding little pieces of sweetened chocolate she had hoping they would melt. In the latter case, Jean-Georges Vongerichten (who may or may not have actually invented it but did popularize it) was trying to bake a traditional Chocolate Torte and undercooked it. The results were, and are, fabulous. My point? Continue reading →
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