Humorist Dave Barry, author and columnist for the Miami Herald, wrote an article in 1993 about the flamability of Kellog’s Strawberry Pop Tarts. It seems that a family nearly lost their house when a defective toaster held onto a Pop Tart just a little longer than the pop-tart wanted to be held. News of this fire [...]

From the Millennium Restaurant (in San Francisco) Newsletter: As of July 23rd, Millennium Restaurant will no longer offer imported bottled mineral water. We are very excited to introduce this system to the guests of our restaurant and hope you will enjoy San Francisco tap water safer & more delicious than ever! A charge of *$1/per [...]

Have you every tried to recreate a  recipe you had a restaurant but it just didn’t taste the same? Have you ever made a recipe from one of your favorite cookbooks and it just didn’t work? What went wrong? First, you might actually read the entire recipe. I had a reviewer, referring to a mayonnaise [...]

confiture de figues A confiture is the French name for a jam or a preserve. My favorite fruit is Black Mission figs. In fact, my secret comfort food are Fig Newtons. That being said, I love making fig jam to savor all year. Here is a recipe from one of my French culinary mentors for [...]

Here is the continuing countdown of My Top 10 Techniques Every Cook Should Know about Continental Cuisine. Lets first review #10- #6: Number 10, Spatchcock Number 9, Sautéing Number 8, Dicing Number 7, Blanching Vegetables Number 6, Cooking Pasta