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Herbal Tea - Tea Time for a Healthy Life?

Herbal teas have been around for thousands of years already but its rebirth in the Western world only happened in recent times. In Eastern countries however, the perceived powers of herbal tea has never waned and many Asians view drinking herbal tea as part of their regular routines.
What are Herbal Teas?
Also known as ptisans and […]

Celebrity Chefs of the Food Network

It’s hard to imagine how televised cuisine exposition got by in the days before the Food Network. Founded in 1993 and owned by the E.W. Scripps Company, the Food Network is a round-the-clock American cable TV channel devoted to food: mostly cooking it, and eating it. In its first ten years, it has single-handedly given […]

How To Whip Up Delicious Dishes Within Minutes

In the whirlwind world of busy, demanding, and stressful jobs, lugging children from school to soccer practice to dance lessons, serving on the school board and a hundred more items on the to-do list, who has time to cook a healthy and nutritious meal anymore? The good old days of living at a slower […]

What Everybody Should Know About Oolong Tea

A study from Netherlands found that men who drank more than 4.7 cups of black tea a day were 69% less likely to have a stroke than men who drank less than 2.6 cups a day.
Although tea might not have been considered a health drink in the past, today various teas have considerably […]

I Love Christmas Fruitcake!

As a child, while visions of sugar plums danced in the heads of children around the world on Christmas eve, I dreamed of candied orange peel, candied lemon peel, candied citron, candied cherries, raisins, ginger, chopped walnuts, chopped pecans, grated lemon rind, brandy, vanilla cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, mixed into a batter made of […]

Food Service: The Mover Of The Culinary Arts

There are a few restaurants nowadays that can really sweep you off your feet from merely displaying their exquisite style in food serving. Years ago, food serving was an art that was practiced like a ritual. This is because, for one, people were so deeply religious that even the preparation of the food was a […]

Tea Bag Folding: A Cornucopia Of Style

The increase in health awareness and organic living has helped spark the resurgence of tea drinking across the globe. In the United States alone, tea sales almost tripled from less than two billion dollars in 1990 to over six billion dollars in 2005, according to the Tea Association of the United States.
At present, you will […]

Delicious Lobster Curry with a Spatter of Coriander

“My temples thud, my pulses boil,
I’m sick of song, and ode, and ballad
Pour it on a lobster curry every time
With a splatter of coriander once & for all…”
Food for me is something which is always on the first priority. I am not at all choosy about food. Whenever the word food comes I become sensible […]

Spicy Steaks with Fried Potato, Chili Pulp & Pesto

A big brown steak with a medley of green vegetables and a middle sized bowl full of some thick dark brown thing with different forks are there in the picture.
Well, it was an oil painting (by an unknown renaissance artist), hanging in the wall at the reception desk of a restaurant. After getting confirmed […]

Grilled Salmon Steaks: With Garlic Sauce & Sliced Cucumber

We are always seeking a food that gives us the maximum pleasure while at a dish. Steaks prepared from broiled salmon quite often claim to have a taste, which seems to be irresistible.
It’s yummy and delicious the taste that the salmon steaks induce when it is perfectly grilled; the supporting elements like garlic sauce […]