09th November 2005
Chop, chop, chop! No kitchen is complete without a set of cutlery. When it comes to cutlery for your kitchen, you have lots of choices. But the most important thing to have is a Chef's knife. A high quality chef's knife will cost you at least $50, but pla...
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09th November 2005
Gourmet Food at Home
If you would love to prepare gourmet food in your kitchen, here are some great recipes and food preparation techniques. You don't have to be a gourmet chef to enjoy gourmet food in your home. Each recipe is simple and will leave y...
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09th November 2005
Satisfy Your Wine Desires - Join a Wine Club
If you are a wine fanatic, you have many options to satisfy your thirst. But before you choose an option, you should know how to taste wine.
In order to do a proper wine tasting, you need to swish the w...
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09th November 2005
Gourmet Coffee in Your Home
So you'd like to make coffee house coffee in your home?
Let's take a tutorial of the creation of coffee house coffee.
First you want to assess the aroma and taste of the coffee house coffee beans. This is known as ...
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09th November 2005
Wine Accessories - The things you need.
What is soup without a spoon? What is pen without paper? What is wine without accessories? If you said "incomplete" then you are correct.
Let's start with the basics. In order to enjoy wine properly you need...
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27th August 2005
The best way to decide what you need in your kitchen is to first decide what it is you are going to be cooking in there. The best suggestion I ever heard on this matter is to find five dishes you really love. The dishes you like to find on menus at restau...
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27th August 2005
Barbecue is a mix of talents. There is the choice of meat (or in some cases vegetables), the creation and choice of sauce, and of course the flame. Once the components are gathered together, then the real talent starts with the maintenance of the flame, s...
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27th August 2005
A friend of mine once told me there is more to the culinary life than chile peppers. He might be right, but he keeps telling me this over my diner table, so go figure.
The habanero chile (Capsicum chinense Jacquin) is the most intensely spicy chile pe...
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27th August 2005
Wine tasting is properly known as 'Wine Degustation'. It is the art of being able to note the various differences between difference types of wine, and even the various differences between the vintages of the same type of wine.
There are basically two...
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23rd August 2005
The coffee plant has two main species. There is the Coffea Arabica, which is the more traditional coffee and considered to be superior in flavor, and the Coffea Canephora known more commonly as Robusta. Robusta tends to be higher in caffeine and can be gr...
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