The March Towards Spring

Food in Season on BBC.co.ukThe first crocuses have made their appearance and a trickle of early season produce is injecting market stalls with the first hints of spring. Now's the time to know your onions, ...... gulp down oysters, get stuck into sole food and go wild with passion fruit. As the days...

Wales, St. David's Day - Mwynhewch eich bwyd!

Food Events on BBC.co.ukCulinary diversity can often be closer to home than we think. This weekend, pay foodie homage to the Welsh in celebration of St David's Day. ...... From cawl to Caerphilly, the principality is bursting with distinctive seasonal produce. The fresh flavours of Welsh national dishes...

Baking - Gluten-Free Recipes

Healthy Kitchen on the TimesAndDemocrat.comMs Harter, a lady from South Carolina, shares her gluten-free recipes. She started cooking everything from scratch after being diagnosed with celiac disease. ...... "It's hard, but once you do it, you've got it. At first, I bought a bunch of recipe books, but...

Nutritional Benefits of Eating Berries

Nutrition on About.comA healthy food can bring you a number of benefits, from feeling good to helping your body to fight aging. Berries, for example, provide the body with nutrients and much more (not to mention they are delicious). ...... If you have ever had the pleasure of picking berries right from...

Meaty Bones Give Soups a Leg Up

Dining & Wine on The New York TimesAdding soup bones to the soup pot actually saves a step because the stock is created alongside the soup. Several recipes are included. ...... MY pipes froze. I had shoveled 1,350 linear feet of snow in the last five months. I wanted soup. If it’s damp, I haul out...

Organic? Free-range? How Do You Know What's Your Beef?

Food News on the OregonLive.comConsumers looking for more healthful, sustainable meat often are confused by labels and marketing promising that the meat is grass-fed, organic or free-range. Explanations are provided here, along with several recipes. ...... When I read the press release, something didn't...

Plunging Lobster Prices Inspire Indulgent Recipes

Luxury on Sale: The Lobster Glut | nytimes.com Lobster prices are about a third lower than they were last year at this time, making them a relatively affordable indulgence. An opulent dish such as lobster with herbed egg noodles, sherry and salmon caviar is one way to enjoy the bounty. .....

Lentils and Cabbage Pack a Nutritional Punch

Fitness & Nutrition> Recipes for Health on The New York TimesA hearty dish of stewed lentils with cabbage is satisfying and nutritious. The recipe calls for cooking the cabbage with onion and garlic in a wide-lidded skillet to release its sweetness. ...... An article last month by Tara Parker-Pope...

Fried Crickets Taste Better Than They Sound

World> Today's Dessert on Boston.comDuring a visit to Beijing, this writer had a dessert of fried crickets that "tasted pretty good." Skewers of edible insects, plus snakes, sea horses, starfish and other things you never thought of ingesting, are sold at the outdoor Donghuamen Night Market. .........

How to Skim Stocks & Sauces

Tips & Methods> Cooking on SaveurDifferent sauciers have different methods for skimming, but all share the goal of removing as much unwanted foam as possible while retaining the pure meat stock. Four techniques, including the cold-spoon method and the spin method, are discussed. ...... The French...

Fresh and wild: Chicory

Life & Style> Food & Drink on Times OnlineThe ancient Greeks ate wild blue succory (chicory) when the leaves were young and not too bitter. Today’s version has larger and much less bitter leaves, but the transformation was a slow process. ...... The most dramatic breakthrough came in the...

Sampling the Signature Flavors of Chennai, India

Travel Feature on TheAge.com.auA masala dosa with warm potato curry, a glass of lassi, and a tomato and lentil rasam spiced with chili and turmeric are among the flavors found in the southern Indian city of Chennai. The capital of Tamil Nadu is known for its vegetarian, fish, seafood and rice-based...

Balancing the Power of Anchovies

Food & Drink> Recipes on Times OnlineAnchovies are more of a seasoning than a sustenance, the salty base that adds depth to sauces and stuffing. It pairs well with garlic, stands up to Parmesan cheese and makes an excellent addition to pasta sauces. ...... Anchovies are strange creatures, more...

A Humane Way to Cook Lobster

Lifestyle> Food and Drink on the Telegraph.co.ukLobster enthusiasts there is a good news: a lawyer has invented a device that will finish the crustaceans kindly and in a way that makes it taste better. Food lovers no longer have to feel guilty about how their feast died. ...... Occasionally something...

10 Techniques Every Cook Should Know

Food on the San Francisco ChronicleTrained chefs fold fearlessly, braise boldly, and temper without trepidation. These are the sorts of kitchen techniques that shape the pros' culinary language. ...... Yet, these same techniques can panic less-practiced cooks, many of whom, with the economy stumbling,...

A Perfect Valentine's Day Dinner

Food Events on BBC.co.ukThe authentic no-nonsense approach of Jill Dupleix to a sensational and stylish supper will calm our pre-date nerves and shall let us the time to concoct the way for love. Some dishes can be made in advance, leaving us time to clean the house, choose the music, ...... buy some...

From Russia with Gusto - Taste of Home

on my.telegraph.co.ukCulinary Notes of an Italian emigrants in the land of Russia. ...... Although I came to Russia 19 years ago, my kitchen is still a reminder of my family kitchen back in Italy, from the spices to my family’s farm olive oil and dried-peperoncini hanging on the wall. ...Full Story:...

Cozying Up to a Valentine's Day Dinner at Home

Food on the Chicago TribuneIf there is an upside to the downturn in the economy, it might lie in the fact that we're being forced to go back to basics. We're eating out less, spending more time at home ...... entertaining ourselves, and figuring out what's really important when it comes to material...

Excess Cooking Oil Concoction Makes a Cleaner and Cheaper Fuel

N.Y./Region News on The New York TimesA yearlong experiment of mixing vegetable oil with diesel to fuel vehicles has proven successful and economical. VATS of grease may make health advocates cringe, but Westchester County officials see excess cooking oil from the county’s 3,500 restaurants as a means...

Slow Food USA Concoction with a Practical Syracuse Twist.

Business News on Syracuse.comPaul Mercurio is an advocate of Slow Food, but he also recognizes that Syracuse, N.Y., is not the ideal place for a trend that relies on locally grown food. When he shops, ...... he weighs the energy-to-calorie ratio in food shipped from all over the world. A Swiss chard...

Hunger for Love

'The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.'Mother Teresaaddthis_pub = 'skipper8'; ORGANIC LIFESTYLE: ≈ ≈ TRAVEL ≈ ПУТЕШЕСТВИЕ: @ § §...

The Catch of the Day, Straight from the Ice

Food on Chicago TribuneChefs who are familiar with ice fishing say simple preparations are best to highlight the flavors of the fresh-caught fish. Recipes for panfish tempura, pickled pike and more are included. ...... For those willing to brave the cold, ice fishing yields some of the year's best-tasting...

An Unusual Marinated Rib-Eye

THE MINIMALIST on The New York TimesTHIS is a column about luck, not skill - or at least not mine. Having become enamored of Peasant, on Elizabeth Street, I discovered that the chef, Frank DeCarlo, also ran the newer Bacaro. (Bacaro is the name given to a Venetian bar ...... serving what are called...

A Sure Guide to a Restaurant’s Quality

Food & Drink on The Financial TimesVernon Mascarenhas knows his onions. Having had his own restaurant in north London for 14 years, he is now managing director of Secretts farm near Godal-ming, Surrey, in south-east England. ...... After supervising the picking, which starts at 5am, Mascarenhas...