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Overcome Your Food Prejudices - There is no better way to overcome food prejudices than by learning to prepare foods well, to make them tasty and nutritious and to fully appreciate their nutritive value. Most people have decided likes and dislikes for certain foods. These opinions very often have no reasonable foundation Usually taste of a food poorly prepared or a disparaging remark heard in childhood may be the cause for a lifetime's aversion for a food. Food prejudices like most others may be overcome by a thorough knowledge of the subject. Start with learning more about Weights & Measures
Discover the Beauty of Italian Cookery - You could have the pleasure of experiencing beautiful flavors of Italian food in your home and learn how to prepare tasteful meals by using our easy to prepare recipes. Italian cuisine is characterized by its flexibility, its range of fresh ingredients and its many regional variations, which is  an important element of the Italian lifestyle, and mainly reflects the rural culture and history of the many peoples of the country. If you are interested to find out more about Italian cousine, click on the link to browse our Italian Cookbook. Buon Appetito!
What You Need to Know About Pies & Pastry - Did you know that originally pies were not intended for desserts? Rather, they were used as the main dish of the meal, as they contained a filling of meat or fish and vegetables. Such pies are still made, but they are not usually the ones intended when pastry for pies is mentioned. It should therefore be understood that most of the pastry and recipes considered in this Section is that which is used with sweet fillings and employed particularly in the making of pies and similar foods that are used for desserts. Click here to find out more...
Baking Powder Breads - Baking Powder may be used instead of yeast to leaven bread. It does precisely the same work; that is, raises the dough, making it porous-spongy. The great advantage of bread made by this method is in time saved, as it can be mixed and baked in less than two hours. Everything you need to know about breads, just one click away! Find recipes, tips and more...

Friters, Doughnuts, Crullers, etc. - Success in making good fried cakes depends as much on the cooking as the mixing. In the first place fritters, doughnuts and crullers should be fried in kettle of deep fat. There should be enough of boiling fat in the kettle to free them from the bottom of the kettle, so that they swim on the top, and the fat should never be so hot as to smoke or so cool as not to be at the boiling point; if it is, they soak grease and are spoiled. If it is at the right heat, the doughnuts will in about ten minutes be of a delicate brown outside and nicely cooked inside. Click here to find out more tips and recipes...
Use of Water in the Body and Food - Water aids in regulating our body processes. We might live for a number of weeks without eating food, but we could live only a few days without drinking water. Most foods we consume contain water. Not only moist foods such as milk and watermelon, but solid foods such as potatoes and rice contain water. The water present in foods, however, is not sufficient for the needs of the body. Find out more...
the onion story The Onion Story - Onions are incredibly versatile and each cuisine has its own rules regarding the treatment of onions. Yellow onions are the most common cooking onions and have the strongest flavor. White onions have a sharp fresh taste and red onions are slightly milder and crisper. Leeks are related to both onion and garlic but milder in taste and excellent in soups or braised. The flavor of Welsh onions lies between leeks and onions. Spanish and Bermuda onions are chrisp, sweet and mild. Vidalia, Walla Walla and Maui are super sweet varieties and often eaten raw. Pearl onions are very small and mild and usually cooked whole in stews, pickled or braised. Shallots taste like a cross between a mild onion and garlic. More...
Puddings and Related Dishes - Proper attention to the rules, some practice, and excellent quality of ingredients used will ensure success in pudding preparation every time. Puddings are either boiled, baked or steamed. All sweet puddings require a little salt to prevent insipidity and to draw out the flavor of the several ingredients, but be very careful because too much salt will spoil any pudding. Browse more tips and recipes...
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Healthy Tomatoes - Lycopene is considered one of the more effective antioxidants because it is not converted to vitamin A when ingested. Conversion to vitamin A weakens the antioxidant properties of carotenoids like beta carotene. While tomatoes are the best source of lycopene, many studies have suggested that tomato products such as tomato sauce, ketchup, tomato paste and coctail sauce seem to contain a much higher concentration of the chemical. Processing and cooking, because of the high temperatures involved, release lycopene from its food matrix and make it more easily absorbed by the body. Researchers have also found... Find out more...
The Magic of Coffee - Since its discovery in an Ethiopian rainforest centuries ago, coffee has brewed up a rich and troubled history, according to Uncommon Grounds, a sweeping book by business writer Mark Pendergrast. A good cup of coffee can turn the worst day tolerable, can provide an all-important moment of contemplation, can rekindle a romance," he writes. "And yet, poetic as its taste may be, coffee's history is rife with controversy and politics." For example, coffee bankrolled Idi Amin's genocidal regime in Uganda and the Sandinistas' revolution in Nicaragua. Find out more...

Favorite Kitchen Tools -Wüsthof-Trident of Solingen Germany is a favourite knife manufacturer among chefs (and home cooking enthusiast) and also known the worldover for it´s unique, uncompromising quality of these valued and cherished kitchen tools. Each knife is hot-drop forged by skilled craftsmen from a single piece of the finest surgical, alloyed, high-carbon, no-stain quality steel. Each edge is honed by hand, perfectly curved, and laser tested for uniformity. They have lifetime warranty against manufacturer's defects. Tools like that must be used to be fully appreciated. More...
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Learn to Eat Healthy by Maya Gavric
Learn to Eat Healthy is not a traditional diet book with strict rules and limitations. Here you will find great tips and ideas for healthy cooking and good guidelines to control your health, your eating habits and your weight without strict dieting rules. You'll discover that preparing your own food is fun and easy and your healthy diet is delicious. In fact, the main reason why most of those quick fix diets will fail you from the start is because they ignore the way normal people want to live. This book is simply an easy to read and follow guidebook with over hundred, easy to prepare, healthy, and tasty recipes with full nutritional information, and step by step instructions. More...
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Cold cookie dough is much easier to handle. The very good plan is to prepare dough several hours before attempting to roll it. In fact, a cookie mixture may be made in the evening and allowed to stand covered in refrigerator until the next morning before being rolled out and baked. More...