Year: 2012

TIP OF THE DAY: Daikon Radish Recipes – How To Use Daikon Radish

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[1] Daikon, a long white radish variety (photo © Umami Information Center). [2] Low in calories, high in flavor: daikon slaw with crab, black sesame seeds and radish sprouts. Here’s the recipe (photo © Williams Sonoma). [3] Shredded daikon atop cold soba noodles, along with shredded basil, shredded ginger and sesame seeds (photo © Soba…
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EVENT: We Meet Iron Chef Hiroyuki Sakai At Benihana

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The original Iron Chef cooking show, devised by Fuji TV in Japan, ran from 1992 through 1999. We were mesmerized each week, as two Iron Chefs had less than an hour to cook a multi-course gourmet meal based on the ingredient of the week (which remained a surprise until the filming began). What emerged in…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Home Dehydrating

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Chef Johnny Gnall hasn’t made kale chips yet (see the review), but he does dehydrate. Dehydrated foods are used in a myriad of applications, says Chef Johnny. From Michelin-star kitchens to backwoods cabins full of deer jerky, people have long been removing the moisture from their food in a variety of ways. The technique began…
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