TIP OF THE DAY: How To Check If Fish Is Cooked

Yesterday we suggested that you roast fish more often and included an easy recipe. The only difficult part of roasting fish is determining when it’s done. A key reason some people don’t like fish is because they grew up with overcooked, dry, “fishy” fish. While each recipe has time guidelines, it requires some experimentation with…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Try A Roasted Fish Recipe—It’s Easy!

Roast salmon atop sauteed spinach and mushrooms in a lemon butter caper sauce. Photo courtesy Restaurant i at the Charles Hotel, New York City. Too many people shy away from cooking fish because they feel it’s difficult. That’s a myth: It’s easy to cook healthy and delicious fish fillets, steaks and even whole fish. (Whether…
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NEWS: The First Coca-Cola Recipe

Asa Candler, who purchased the Coca-Cola recipe from John Pemberton in 1887 for $2,300, worked on the original recipe to turn it from a medicinal tonic to a soft drink. Candler was maniacal about protecting his secret recipe. He demanded that no one ever write it down. All labels were removed from ingredient containers. Staff…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Make A Cheese Fondue Recipe

Call friends over for a fondue party. Photo courtesy Emmi Roth Käse. February is National Fondue Month, a fun food to celebrate and a reason for a casual dinner party. There are three traditional types of fondue: beef, cheese and chocolate. Beef fondue consists of cubes of meat dipped into hot oil to cook and…
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TOP PICK OF THE WEEK: Sustainable Coffee

We were thrilled to discover Tiny Footprint coffee, an organic brand that is doubly sustainable through negative carbon emissions. We taste most things blind. So before we knew it was organic or carbon negative, we thought it was a great cup of coffee. Then, we found out how sustainable it is, first through organic agriculture…
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