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What Is Corked Wine?
What is corked wine? Keeping a wine bottle-sealed is probably the most important factor when it comes to maintaining a good wine. A cork is essential, as it keeps oxygen out of the wine bottle. If a ...
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What is Fair Trade Coffee and Why Should We Buy It?
Today's society is very familiar with fair trade coffee, yet it is unclear whether the true meaning behind the economic, environmental and social impact of purchasing and drinking it is understood...
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What is Nouvelle Cuisine?
The 1970's brought a great deal of upheaval and new ideas to the forefront, and the world of cuisine was no exception. In June of 1975, the British magazine Harpers & Queen coined a term to refer to ...
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What is Sustainable Coffee and How Does it Affect My Wake Cup?
Gourmet coffee lovers have been seeing a few new terms in the
local premium coffee shop as they file past the seasonal retail
displays of roasted whole bean bagged coffees. Phrases include
eco-friendly, organic, shade grown, fair trade and certif...
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What Should You Serve If Some Of Your Dinner Party Guests Are Diet-Conscious?
You are planning an elegant dinner party, with delicious food and drinks. But you know that two or three of the guests you really want around your table are trying to shed a few pounds. Can you invit...
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What Wine Really Is (Just In Case You Thought You Knew)
Although millions of people across the globe enjoy wine, very few of them know exactly what it is about a particular wine that they enjoy. By understanding each of the different components of wine, y...
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What Wise Guys Eat
When I lived in the North End of Boston, in the nineteen eighties and nineties, I hung around a neighborhood bar from time to time, called The Corner Café. It was located on Prince Street near the corner of Salem Street. And it was indeed a neighborhood p...
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What You Need In a Gourmet Kitchen
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 rea...
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What's Cookin' - Warm Chicken Salad with Orange Sesame Dressing
(NC)-Serves 4 6 cups mixed salad greens 1/2 red pepper; cut into strips 1/2 small red onion, sliced 1/2 lb Maple Lodge Farms Premium Rotisserie Seasoned Chicken Breast cut into strips 1 tbsp olive ...
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What's So Special About Cinnamon?
I don't know about you, but just the smell of cinnamon makes me feel warm and fuzzy all over. My favorite cookies to make is Snickerdoodles because I just LOVE the smell of them baking. There's just...
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What'S That In My Food!
If you drop a bomb, you kill not only your enemies but your friends as well. This is the effect food additives have on humans. Man has existed for thousands of years, and only started using additiv...
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What’s the Thick on Roux? Thickening Soups and Sauces
Soups and sauces can be thickened in a variety of ways. A sauce must the thick enough to cling to the food, but not so thick it stands up on its own. Starches are by far the most common thickening ag...
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When It Comes To Sushi, I Have No Class
While I was growing up on Cape Cod I would go to the fish pier every Sunday Morning with my Dad to pick up a fresh fish.. Part of the ritual would be to stand on the dock and watch the boats unload....
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When it comes to sushi, I have no class.
As I was growing up on Cape Cod I would go to the fish pier every Sunday morning with my Dad to pick up a fresh fish.. Part of the ritual would be to stand on the dock and watch the boats unload. While the men all exchanged their secret language o...
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Which is for You - Blended or Varietal Wines?
Blended and varietal wines.
Novice wine lovers soon come across the concept of blended and varietal wines. The two questions that spring to mind are, “what does it mean?” and “does it matter?”
At the basic level, the difference is quite sim...
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Whine and Dine?!
To many of us, entertaining is associated with formal dinner tables adorned with carefully laid out place settings and stuffy seating charts. One may also think of multi-course meals that contain dishes the average person has never heard of. In the 1950...
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White Chocolate Carousel Cake
Cake: 2 eggs 1 tsp (5 ml) vanilla 1-1/4 cups (300 ml) Five Roses All Purpose Flour 1 cup (250 ml) granulated sugar 2 tsp (10 ml) baking powder 1/2 tsp (2 ml) salt 1/2 cup (125 ml) butter, sof...
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Who said low carb diets ever meant no carb??
A little information if often a dangerous thing... and many people trying low carb diets failed miserably in the long-run because they took the concept to its extreme figuring that if low-carb diets were good, then no-carb diets must be better? Wrong!...
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Whole Wheat Raspberry Muffins
1 cup (250 ml) Five Roses Whole Wheat Flour 1 cup (250 ml) Five Roses All Purpose Never Bleached Flour or White, or with Wheat Bran 1 tbsp. (15 ml) baking powder 1/2 tsp. (2 ml) salt 1 egg, lightly b...
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Why Chocolate Melts In Your Mouth, Not In Your Hand
(NC)—Ever wonder why those delicious little chocolates hardly ever melt in your hand? Pop them in your mouth, and they transform into soft, gooey liquid. Here's the secret… The way chocolate is manuf...
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Why Culinary Education
If you are thinking about a career in culinary arts then studying in a culinary school is a must. You may be a great cook but you will never become expert learning culinary arts yourself. Farther tak...
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Why Do Make-Ahead Recipes Work So Well To Reduce Your Dinner Party Stress?
One of the “tricks” I find most useful for hosting stress-free dinner parties is to make some of the recipes ahead. I find that too many last minute jobs can overwhelm me, so I plan ahead to eliminat...
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Why is My Restaurant Not Full Every Monday Night?
Restaurant owners are always wondering why their tables are not booked on Mondays - Restaurant marketing experts at HJ Ventures report that this lack of customers is due to a poorly executed or many times no marketing plan at all -
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Wine Etiquette With Ease
Correct wine etiquette makes the tasting experience more comfortable and enjoyable. Like most interests, there is a set of protocol that most wine lovers adhere to. Good taste dictates that tasting...
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Wine Tasting -- The Traditional way
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 vintag...
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Wonderful Holiday Recipe Ideas
The Holiday Season is upon us and soon we will be frantically searching for yummy recipes to serve our family and friends. Many of the leading food manufacturers have spent 1000's of hours testing a...
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Would You Like to Learn How to Bake Bread?
Even if you have never baked bread before, I can just about guarantee that your very first loaf out of the oven will be so mouth-watering that you’ll amaze yourself (not to mention family and friends...
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Wrapping Up the Cigar Boom
At age 98, the infamous cigar aficionado George Burns said, "If I had taken my doctor's advice and quit smoking when he advised me to, I wouldn't have lived to go to his funeral." While it's tempting...
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