Cooking with olive oil is like cooking with wine. Never use a wine or olive oil that does not taste good to you. An inferior one will leave an aftertaste. If you do the taste test and compare the “pure” to the “extra-virgin” and the you’ll understand the difference. When cooking with olive oil, save [...]

Deciphering what olive oil to select can often be as tough as choosing wine. Just as wine, tastes also vary quite a bit. Your friends may like a more peppery olive oil, while you may like something fruitier, or perhaps one with more buttery tones. The art of choosing the perfect olive oil really is [...]

Every trade has it’s tools, and even the easiest of tasks generally require something additional to complete. Construction workers have their hammers, web designers have their computers, artists have their paint brushes, and of course cooks and chefs have their utensils, pots, pans and ingredients. If you haven’t noticed by now, cooks have one of [...]

If you’ve cooked for any extended period of time, then you know that cooking the same dishes (no matter how good they may be), can get quite boring and repetitive. The wonderful part about cooking is that you are able to base an entire meal around one simple ingredient. If you’ve got a certain herb [...]