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Want to become a more impressive cook instantly? Use compound butter! Also known as finishing butter, or beurre composé in French, it’s unsalted butter that has been blended with seasonings. There are endless variations. Escoffier published 35 combinations in 1903, and cuisine has evolved in many directions since his classic renderings of anchovy butter and…
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Here’s a fun, educational and tasty summer activity for adults and kids alike: Grow mushrooms in your kitchen. Back to the Roots shows the joy of home farming via a small cardboard box that produces two micro-crops of mushrooms. Two UC Berkeley students came across the idea during a class, which mentioned the potential to…
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Sugar dissolves slowly in cold liquids. Photo by K.G. Toh | CSP As most people have discovered, table sugar is slow to dissolve in cold drinks. Whether you’re sweetening iced coffee and iced tea or making a sweet cocktail, there are better products to use than conventional granulated sugar. Superfine Sugar Pick up some…
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Q Kola, an elegant mixer. Photo courtesy Q Drinks. A few years ago, a young Brooklynite enjoying a vodka and tonic happened to notice the calories on the tonic water bottle, along with other ingredients not up to par with his top shelf vodka. He became a man with a mission: to make an…
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July 26th is National Pisco Day—a day to drink Pisco, and to try Brazil’s national cocktail, the Pisco Sour (recipe below). We’re about to introduce you to Pisco. Below you’ll find: The History Of Pisco Pisco Cocktails Pisco Sour Recipe But first: WHERE WOULD WE BE WITHOUT THESE FOOD STAPLES FROM PERU?…
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