If it’s fine wines and great food that you live for, then it’s all about Food and Wine Magazine. This magazine has dedicated itself to the individual who cannot eat his food without the taste of a good wine. Here you can find the best unknown restaurants across America. There are recipes galore and the latest in the newest grape. Food and Wine Magazine also has numerous auctions to benefit charities and group trips to benefit the select palate. If your hobby is wine or if your hobby is food, or if you genuinely enjoy both, than Food and Wine Magazine will become your periodical of choice.

Mardi Gras is a tradition of the French culture. In America we have made a large celebration out of the holiday by having street parties, drinking and plenty of food available. Here is just a sample:

In New Orleans were the biggest Mardi Gras party is held you will find Gumbo, Jambalaya, Seafood, and lots of Bloody Mary’s on the list. These will well and truly get the party underway.

It is always a good time to make something with chocolate. When the mood seizes you, discovering you haven’t got a crucial ingredient can ruin the mood. Knowing its equivalent or substitution can save the day. Today, Mom helps cooks and chocoholics with tips on chocolate and includes the world’s easiest dipped strawberry recipe.

Chocolate, like most ingredients used to prepare food has to be of good quality. So, do not hesitate to buy good or even very good chocolate when shopping. Of course, price will be higher but certainly this is the price of quality. The quality of a cake, a chocolate mousse or any cream or other chocolate preparation will reflect the chocolates quality exactly. Make no mistake; in this case the price plays an important part in the selection of the product.

We’re your drive-thru customers. The ones who pay your bills – so listen up. Ok, let’s admit it, we occasionally find ourselves in your takeout drive-thru line, particularly on football nights. Why can’t we understand anything your menu board says? It’s not a lot of fun sitting out here talking to a backlighted piece of plastic under the best of conditions. But when it spits out a bunch of verbal gibberish, we begin to doubt ourselves. Maybe we just don’t have the right stuff to order drive-thru takeout.

“You rode an elephant?” I asked, my eyes popping in sheer amazement at the photographs taped to the black pages of the scrapbook.

Colorful images of a North African bazaar, elephant and camel riding, tents in the Sahara Desert and cooking over open fires were just a few of the fascinating images that captured my imagination. That scrapbook chronicling several years of far-flung adventures belonged to my dad’s second wife.

During a portion of my junior and senior years in high school, my dad was married to Joyce, a jet setter he met on a barefoot Windjammer cruise.

Chanukah is an eight-day festival of lights, which begins on the eve of Kislev. It is considered a celebration of the triumph of light over darkness. There are many culinary traditions attached to Chanukah; here are just a few:

Items you will find on the menu during Chanukah are Latkes, Cheese Latkes, Rumanian Zucchini Potato Latkes, Jelly Doughnuts, Apple Latkes, Ale Pudding, and Caribbean Boniato Latkes.

While taking a break from required writing, I began to reminisce about a recent trip to Chicago. The growling of my tummy reminded me I’ve neglected to eat today and it’s past four o’clock in the afternoon! That’s not sensible at all. Let me tell you about dining in Chicago before I get a bite to eat.

While in Chicago, I had the exciting task of deciding where I was going to eat. It’s my guess that just about every American and many foreigners have heard about dining in Chicagoland. If you’ve never had a deep dish pizza made in Chicago, you’re missing a treat! I say this and I am not a big pizza lover. I have pizza fewer than six times a year unless I’m in Chicago more often than that. I must include New York hand-tossed pizza, too.

Soup from STEMS OF VEGETABLES

INGREDIENTS:


8-10 stems of spinach leaves

4-5 tender stalks of the leaves just below cauliflower

2-3 stems of coriander leaves

1 small sprig spring onion

1 stalk of celery

1/2″ ginger peeled and crushed

1 clovette garlic crushed

1 tbsp. cornflour

1/4 dried red chilli crushed

1/2 tsp. sugar

salt to taste

1/2 tsp. soya sauce

1/2 tsp. oil or butter

2 1/2 cups water.

A picnic meal need not be a complicated event. Offering cold food items makes the menu easier to control. There will be less equipment to bring and fewer cleanups afterwards.

Sandwiches are a preferred picnic item. In the past a sandwich consisted of two pieces of bread and lunch meat. Sandwiches have been given an overhaul in recent years.

To add variety to ordinary sandwiches, choose from a variety of breads. Sandwiches are being made from pitas, flatbreads, and tortilla wraps. Cut the bread the night before and store in an airtight container.