RECIPE: Classic French Pastry

Profiteroles are pâte à choux, filled with ice cream and topped with chocolate sauce. Pastry chef Jean-Yves Charon was born in Brittany, a region in the northwest of France. Growing up in France, Jean-Yves got to experience some of the best pastry the world has to offer. He recently shared his knowledge of the classic…
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CONTEST: Win $5,000 With Your Tilapia Recipe

Tilapia have lovely pink scales. Good news for people who like cooking with tilapia, saving money and winning contests! Regal Springs Tilapia seeks contestants to submit cost-effective and family-friendly tilapia recipes. The person to submit the most creative, most thorough and, of course, most delicious dish will win a grand prize of $5,000. Read the…
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RECIPES: Tequila Cocktails For Cinco De Mayo

Tequila is North America’s first indigenous distilled spirit, a strong distilled alcoholic liquor. It’s made from the blue agave plant (photo #3), and is produced via double-distillation in the area around the city of Tequila, located in the western Mexico state of Jalisco. The agave plant grows exceptionally well in the volcanic soil of the…
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RECIPES: Elegant Tofu

Koketsu’s Spice-Seared Tofu. To any suspicious foodies out there who think of tofu as a little more than the poor man’s protein: Executive Chef Craig Koketsu of Park Avenue Spring and Quality Meats has recently proven you wrong. As it happens, April is “Soy Foods Month,” and in honor of the sometimes-stigmatized soy product Koketsu…
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RECIPES: A Time to Grill

Turns out there is no such thing as Grill Season. Serious grillers and so-called barbecue-tionists use their grills all year round, according to a recent survey by The Hearth, Patio and Barbecue Association. Still, when the rains pass and the weather gets warm, we find ourselves drawn out of doors…into the streets…and, inevitably, toward the…
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