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 [...]

Extra-virgin olive oil (or E.V.O.O. to fans of cooking show host Rachael Ray) is heart-healthy cooking oil that goes great with Mediterranean food. Now, researchers say it might also help prevent Alzheimer’s disease.
Specifically, the compound oleocanthal in extra-virgin olive oil has been found to alter the structure of certain toxic proteins associated with Alzheimer’s. Researchers [...]

Any seasoned chef will tell you that having the freshest, most quality ingredients is one of the biggest components to fine cuisine and gourmet food. As a chef, or wanna-be chef, you are pretty much required to know a lot about a lot. Herbs, spices, vegetable types, sugar types, flour types, seafood types, meat [...]

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 [...]