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Japanese BENIHANA VILLAGE Las Vegas Hilton, 732-5111. Japanese tabletop cooking at its finest. The chefs deliver great steaming-hot food, as well as an entertaining show.
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BMW, French Laundry’s Keller Cook Up New Partnership
Bayerische Motoren Werke AG, the world’s largest maker of luxury autos, has a new ingredient to target high-end customers: Chef Thomas Keller.
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Raising a crop of foodies
JUNIOR MasterChef is set to change the future of meal time in Australia as kids across the country ditch the fish fingers and go gourmet.
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Take it easy and use healthy canned beans
Beans are somewhat of a nutritional miracle worker. Along with being an excellent source of protein, they’re packed with fiber and other plant-based nutrients. Plus, they’re extremely low in fat, can prolong the feeling of fullness after a meal and can help control blood sugar levels.
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The Flint Journal Women’s Expo on tap next weekend
FLINT, Michigan — Jessica Smith can tell who’s serious about sampling food at the Flint Journal Women’s Expo. Smith has seen women bring Tupperware containers and wait in 45-minute lines to taste and take home samples of everything from gourmet…
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Misto M100S Gourmet Brushed Aluminum Olive Oil Sprayer

• To clean, fill with hot water and a drop of mild detergent, and spray.
• 7-5/8-Inch high by 1-7/8-inch in diameter
• Satin-finish aluminum
• Spread olive oil on focaccia or spray muffin pans
• Pumps up to spray any vegetable oil

Misto Gourmet Brushed Aluminum Olive Oil SprayerFor spreading olive oil evenly on bruschetta, focaccia, and grilled or roasted vegetables, and for spraying muffin and cake pans with vegetable oil, this dispenser is a nifty tool. A plastic cap underneath the sprayer’s top twists off so the sprayer can be half-filled (1/3 cup) with oil. Inside the top is a plastic tube that fits over the spray nozzle. Push the top up and down to pump air pressure into the canister. Then spray for 10 seconds and pu

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How To Become A Gourmet Cook – Some Simple Tips

Gourmet cooking seems to be hoplessly beyond the reach of most of us. We are used to preparing a hurried meal for our families or carefully following the instructions in a recipe book when we have guests to dinner. Gourmet cooking seems to be the preserve of five star restaurants and top professional chefs who have access to the most luxurious ingredients.

But gourmet cooking can be achieved at home if you are willing to devote some time and attention to it. Gourmet cooking is essentially good cooking that uses the best ingredients and has a certain integrity to it.

Gourmet cooking can be simple food. Increasingly, even top restaurants are serving food that would once have been regarded as the food of poor people. But today when our palates are assaulted by some much processed food this kind of food has an authenticity that most of our diet lacks.

A simple meal of cheese sourced from a farm’s own dairy and hand made bread is a gourmet meal. A braised leg of spring lamb with minted new potatoes dug up only hours ago is a gourmet cooking.

Regional specialities cooked slowly with care and attention are gourmet cooking. When most food is fast food, slow food is gourmet food.

If gourmet cooking is about paying attention to ingredients it is also about paying attention to yourself. A gourmet cook must have integrity too. It is important to take pride in yourself. Hone your skills and always be prepared to learn more.

Books are useful. The best books are those that explain techniques rather than just give you recipes. It is your skill in technique that will make you a gourmet cook once you have good quality ingredients.

Some skills need to be learned from the experts. Consider enrolling on a course. A few days spent with a chef, a baker or a butcher will impart skills that cannot be picked up from a book. Not least working with a real artist in these trades will inspire you in your quest to become a gourmet cook.

Equipment is important to a gourmet cook. This doesn’t mean acquiring a battery of fancy gadgets. All you need are knives and pans but they should be of the best quality you can afford. That goes especially for knives and take care to keep them sharp. Have respect for your equipment and it will help you to become a gourmet cook.

If one word sums up what being a gourmet cook means it is that – respect. As a gourmet cook you must respect your ingredients, the skills of others, your diners, your equipment, and above all yourself. That is the only way to become a gourmet cook.

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Gourmet Meals in Minutes

We live in a hectic world where there isn’t a lot of time to spend on meal preparation, but we still want to enjoy the food we eat. Gourmet Meals in Minutes will show you how to create a wide variety of mouth-watering, nutritious meals without spending all day in the kitchen.

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How to Cook a Gourmet Meal in 15 Minutes

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