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  • Recipe Daring Cooks September 2010: Food Preservation-The Apple Butter of Knowledge
    Daring Cooks September 2010: Food Preservation-The Apple Butter of Knowledge
    When I was little, I used to watch my grandmother bring fresh fruits and vegetables in from her garden. Once all the yummy produce was harvested and brought inside, my grandma would make magic by canning and preserving. She would make[...]
  • Recipe DARING COOKS 2010 CHALLENGE: FOOD PRESERVATION: THE APPLE BUTTER OF KNOWLEDGE
    DARING COOKS 2010 CHALLENGE: FOOD PRESERVATION: THE APPLE BUTTER OF KNOWLEDGE
    I am posting this 5 days late! Not that this was a tedious recipe to make. It was infact very easy and quick. Because I am allergic to nuts, I regularly make fruit butters to use as spreads. I have made apple butter a lot of times before and I[...]
  • Recipe Test Your Culinary Knowledge With Escoffier
    Test Your Culinary Knowledge With Escoffier
    We’ve created a fun new game to test your culinary knowledge (and an amusing way to kill time at work on a boring Monday. Shhh, we won’t tell!)  It’s called Escoffier , and it’s the game that makes you hungry for more![...]
  • Recipe Slow Food University
    Slow Food University
    . Nary a pot or pan in sight. 300 college students from around the world have come to Italy’s University of Gastronomic Sciences to learn about food. They are not training to become chefs or hospitality workers, food chemists[...]
  • Recipe Food for the Brain
    Food for the Brain
    . Architect and food urbanist Carolyn Steel shows how modern cities have been shaped by food. Malcolm Gladwell tells you why spaghetti sauce is a metaphor for happiness. Self-proclaimed anti-foodie Fred Kaufman[...]
  • Recipe A Witch in the Kitchen: Food Superstitions
    A Witch in the Kitchen: Food Superstitions
    image via Ware You Fit In . Who couldn’t use a little help in the luck department? You throw rice at weddings and snag the long end of the Thanksgiving wishbone, toss salt over your left shoulder, blow out the candles on your[...]
  • Recipe The Food Pyramid is Illegal. And Racist.
    The Food Pyramid is Illegal. And Racist.
    . These are the claims made in a lawsuit filed against the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The [food] pyramid scheme Round 1 has been won by the Physicians Committee for[...]
  • Recipe Filth in Food: We might as well drink out of the toilet.
    Filth in Food: We might as well drink out of the toilet.
    . Let me state at the outset: I am not a germaphobe. I don’t have food rituals, issues, or obsessions. I use the silverware set out for me, I let different foods touch on my plate, and I am well-acquainted with[...]
  • Recipe A Salute to Ramen.
    A Salute to Ramen.
    . Moses: Whatcha eating? God: Ramen. (from the Urban Dictionary) ,( P erh aps ambrosial is a bit of an overstatement, but ramen is hard to beat. There are foods out there that are tastier; plenty that are[...]
  • Recipe Fantasy Camp for Cooks
    Fantasy Camp for Cooks
    Cincopa video hosting solution for your website. Another great product from Cincopa Send Files . document.getElementById("_prewig_4c0afdcef0d49").innerHTML=""; . You’ve heard of rock and roll fantasy camps where aging[...]