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A turkey burger Caribbean-style, topped with a grilled pineapple slice. Photo courtesy Kikkoman. America is burger crazy: Burgers are our most popular food. And those burgers are usually beef. But there are other burgers, equally delicious: bison, grain (usually sprouted), lamb, legume (black beans, lentils), turkey and veggie burgers. The next time you cook…
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Looking for dinner salad ideas? Look no further than this alluring interpretation we had at Orsay, a restaurant in Manhattan that specializes in classic brasserie fare (with some modern dishes like this French-style “dinner salad”). You can also serve it as a luncheon salad, or as a first course to a larger meal. The concept…
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Don’t overheat your ham! Photo courtesy Snake River Farms. Cured hams come fully cooked, but need to be heated (that is, if you want your meat to be warm or hot). Micheale Muse, culinary expert for Snake River Farms, producers of “the world’s best” Kurobuta hams, shares this advice: USE MODERATE HEAT. To ensure…
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April 4th is National Cordon Bleu Day. THE HISTORY OF CORDON BLEU Le Cordon Bleu (French for “The Blue Ribbon”) is the world’s largest school for hospitality education, for both cooks, service and management personnel. Originating in France, it now has 35 schools on five continents. The inspiration for the school began in…
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Kurobuta ham has been called the world’s best ham. It‘s also known as the Kobe beef of ham, because of the fine intramuscular marbling that makes the meat melt-in-your-mouth tender. While Kurobuta (koo-row-BOO-tuh) ham isn’t quite as pricey as Kobe beef, it is a special-occasion luxury. Snake River Farms, a Kurobuta producer, has created a…
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