Parent Company of Food Network to Launch New Cooking Channel
Scripps, the parent company of the Food Network, has announced that it will launch a new Cooking Channel in 2010. With primetime Food Network shows sliding into the “entertainment” category, they realize that their offerings are not for serious cooks anymore (remember the original MTV - it was actually about music videos?). They will be [...]
Dress Up Your Cupcakes with Cupcake Couture
Cupcakes are all the rage now, with cupcake bakeries popping up everywhere and young couples serving cupcakes at their weddings instead of the traditional cake. So why not get in on the cupcake fun at home? Bella Cupcake Couture has fun cupcake wrappers for every occasion. Plus the creator of the company, Carrie Middlemiss, [...]
David Lebovitz’s Best Desserts
David Lebovitz, the former pastry chef at Chez Panisse and food blogger, has just had his latest book released and it looks like a must have for the adventuresome baker. “Ready for Dessert” contains some creative new recipes - peanut butter and jelly linzertorte, persimmon cake with cream cheese icing, banana souffles, fresh fig and [...]
So You Think You Know How to Make Pesto. . .
This charming video of Chef Paola Laboa at Farina shows how to make their perfect pesto with exceptional ingredients and lots of heart. Don’t bother getting out your Cuisinart.
Never order a wine that is listed second from the bottom on the menu. Try not to order wine by the glass or Chardonnay. These are some of the suggestions from Dottie and John, the great wine writers over at the Wall Street Journal. They have put together a must-read list of “Ten Ways to Save Money Ordering Wine”.
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Behind the Scenes With The Chef Who Cooked for the Movie “Julie & Julia”
The executive chef who was in charge of all the food during the filming of the movie “Julie and Julia” speaks with blogger Amanda Benson in this post on Food & Think. Colin Flynn dishes about behind the scene stories on the set, the vast quantity of food required for a movie shoot and what [...]
Firelilly Truffle Cones - Perfect Little Favors/Treats for the Holidays
Got a party coming up? Or a wedding or even just a small dinner party? These truffle cones from Firelilly Chocolates are the perfect little dessert. Use them as a favor to pass out or as an after dinner treat. Stick a tub of them out at your Christmas get together or place one [...]
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That was a great article about ordering wine. We now look for restaurants where we can bring our own wine (and not pay corkage or minimal corkage). Seems I’ve made that mistake of ordering a glass of chardonnay many many times. We recently were at a new so called chic restaurant and chardonnay was at $15 (and this is Nashville). Appetizers were terrible and it made that $15 glass of wine seem even MORE expensive because it was washing down bad food.