Cranberry Sauce in a can. For some reason this product has become a staple of American Thanksgiving celebration. I remember sitting down at the table during Thanksgiving as a kid and noticing right away whether or not the table was stocked with cold canned cranberry sauce that has been pre-sliced on a saucer plate. The tell tale rings around the cylindrical mold of cranberry goodness ensures its authenticity.
Duck Confit is one of those great foods that people created out of necessity. The need was to be able to store duck meat for long periods of time with out it spoiling. You can actually confit most anything and it is actually one of the oldest methods of preserving food. The most popular items to confit are cuts of meat with high fat content and fruits.
To confit something you cook it in a liquid for a period of time and at a high enough temperature to ensure that all bacteria have not survived the ordeal. By doing this to meats you are also imparting a great amount of flavor and it so happens to be that duck fat is the tastiest of fats.
Photography: Shaved black truffle by Allerina & Glen MacLarty Truffles are sort of the Holy Grail of ingredients. Extremely rare, expensive, and flavorful. Prized by chefs from all over the World, Truffles are a delicacy no matter where you are. Let’s learn a little about these fungi.
So I tried some Coconut Water the other day, it’s a Brazilian thing I guess. I actually sampled 5 different brands. They all tasted like back sweat. There was one that was somewhat edible.
When Escoffier began to catalog his culinary expertise into books in a sense he created many standards for recipes and methods to prepare food in the French tradition. By doing so he modernized the culinary arts and made it possible for the common man to prepare dishes like he could.
I like Coffee. The thing is, once you have had great coffee it gets hard to drink that St#rb#cks stuff again. I recently was in Jamaica and had their Blue Mountain Coffee. Probably the best coffee I had ever had. It could be because it might have been the freshest coffee I ever drank, none-the-less, [...]
