September is National Food Safety Education month! Here are a few basic tips you can learn quickly to keep food safely prepared, safely stored, and safely served at home.
Merlitons are a versatile vegetable used in many Cajun food recipes. Although they are grown around the world, most people have never heard of a merliton. Find out why!
We are made of water; there is no question of that fact. So, making sure the water we are made of is safe and clean impacts every part of our lives and that of those we care for. The advent of whole-house water treatment systems has made this benefit available to all at a reasonable cost. For less than $20 a month you can have clean water from every faucet in your house. Read on to find out more!
A couple of centuries from now, this will be referred to as the Golden Age of the Foodie, without a doubt. Never before have so many cuisines, ingredients and cooking methods been so readily available to so many people. Even the most exotic ingredients can be found, the most obscure of kitchen gadgets located. If you’re into cooking, food or even Italian recipes, you’ll find a wealth of information available.
A lot of the cuisine of Italy can be intimidating, with multiple techniques used to produce a dish, expensive ingredients and complex construction. Many new cooks take a look at some of the more classic “gourmet” Italian recipes and decide such cooking is better left to Olive Garden or Macaroni Grill. This is a mistake, as there are plenty of easy Italian recipes around.
It’s a cliche, although a true one, that America is a nation of immigrants. A huge proportion of the country’s population either was not born within its borders, or has parents or grandparents who were not. Thus, American food history is as yet a fairly short book, with the exception of Indian fry bread and certain other Native American dishes.
Everyone knows the stereotype of historians … they’re dusty old fellows with patches on their jacket elbows who smell faintly of book mold and are forever squinting at something tiny scribbled in the margin of an old book. Let’s face it; historian is not one of the sexiest career choices in the world. Whatever kind of history you pick, be it military history, government history or that popular catchall “world history,” there’s just not a lot of glamour. Food history, however, is a different kettle of (poached) fish entirely.
Foodborne illness are one of the leading causes of emergency room visits in the United States, and account for millions of dollars in expenses and thousands of days of lost work time every year. What are some of the most common bugs?
Home safety is a hot topic, with innumerable TV shows, books and DVDs available to teach you how to keep yourself and your family safe from everything from burglars to house fires. One thing that gets overlooked, though, is food home safety. Poor attention to food safety and lack of knowledge about it contribute to food-borne illnesses, which cause more hospitalizations every year than other home dangers combined.
Most home cooks at some time or another find themselves getting interested in ethnic cuisine. The impetus might come from their heritage … maybe grandma was a German immigrant or grandpa came from Vietnam. Or it could just be simple cook’s curiosity. All of us get tired of cooking the same old recipes over and over, and decide to move beyond, frequently into ethnic food recipes.