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Behold The Radish!

This week, as you might have guessed from the headline, our Foodie Friday Fun topic is the radish.  More specifically, the business lessons we can learn from using radishes in cooking.  If you’re like me, your exposure to radishes has been mostly through salads, at least for the most common variety, the red radish.  You might also have had daikon radish in Japanese food, and if you’re a fan of French eating you might even have smeared butter on a breakfast radish and eaten it to start your day.

Radieschen - Raphanus sativus - Marktware

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If I asked you to describe the taste and texture of the radish, you’d probably say it was crisp and firm, with a sharp (it is a member of the horseradish family, after all) taste.  And that’s where the business point begins. Continue reading

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Potato Ricers

Potato ricer

It’s Friday and so on to something food-related. Today it’s something you might own or something of which you’ve never heard – potato ricers. For those of you in the latter camp, this kitchen tool is sort of like a huge garlic press. It’s a hand-held thing and you put the spuds into a box that holds one or two. You bring the handle over, push the cooked potatoes through a disk sort of like a meat grinder and the results can resemble rice, hence the term.
Of course, I think about ricers in terms of running a business. Continue reading

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