Eat Different

Learning to cook Thai food – TeakDoor.com – The Thailand Forum.

Most of these courses include a morning trip to the local Thai market to buy food that you will be cooking, some include daily transportation to and from your hotel for free and some don’t.
All of these courses expect you to eat what you and your fellow learning chefs have cooked, so if you see me at one of these courses your best bet is to demand a refund and don’t die of food poisoning.

More than just recipes and techniques, this adventure introduces you to the best of Provencal way of life – a life based around friends, the kitchen, wonderful food prepared from the freshest local ingredients, good wines and amazing liquors, warm nights and fun

By the end of the week you will have learned a whole new way of living and eating. You will go home with your own cookbook, personalized with photographs of you and your friends, cooking and travelling with Philippe. But best of all, you will go home with wonderful memories of a great time in the warm sun of Provence or of la Côte d’Azur.

www.ArtandCookingClassesinFrance.com

via the Telegraph

Carl Warner is a London-based photographer who makes foodscapes: landscapes made of food. In the picture above, a pea pod boat sails away from a land made of bread and potatoes, over a sea of salmon

via NYTimes.com

Brined meats end up gaining 10 percent or more of their original weight in water and salt. Then when they’re cooked to well done, their swollen muscle fibers can lose moisture and still have enough left to seem juicy. And the weakened fiber structure makes them seem tender as well.

So what’s not to like about a brined turkey?

via Slate Magazine

And here my son begins to get really nervous; realizing that he will have to eat not only something tomato-flavored but something that in shape and overall texture most closely resembles a tadpole.

via trendhunter: The Kitchen at Parsons Green
It isn’t every day that the average home cook gets to learn how to cook a week’s worth of locally-sourced gourmet food from a prestigious chef who has multiple Michelin stars under his belt–unless, of course, you’re taking classes at The Kitchen at Parsons Green from Thierry Laborde.

newly discovered: Open Source Food

Amazing Recipes. Delicious Food. Beautiful Photography. Created and rated by you and fellow food-lovers from all over the world. Open Source Food is your gastronomic hub where every visit will bring inspiration and a rumbling belly…

via Los Angeles Times

Everything you’ve learned about British superstar chef Gordon Ramsay on television is a crock. On his hit television shows, “Hell’s Kitchen” and especially “Kitchen Nightmares,” the three-star Michelin chef hams it up, cajoling and bullying some of the most exasperating cooks and restaurateurs on the planet into doing better work. The histrionics make for riveting television, but give the wrong impression about Ramsay’s own cooking.

via SFGate

Via e-mail in June, Kingsolver shared some thoughts on canning tomatoes, when she still had time before the tomato harvest started.

via American Conservatism Magazine

Alice Waters might not seem like a conservative. A veteran of Berkeley’s Free Speech Movement, who once cooked a $25,000-a-seat fundraising dinner for Bill Clinton, she eagerly compares her campaign for “edible schoolyards”—where children work with instructors to grow, prepare, and eat fresh produce—to John F. Kennedy’s attempt to improve physical fitness through mandatory exercise. Her dream of organic, locally and sustainably produced food in every school cafeteria, class credit for lunch hour, and required gardening time and cooking classes is as utopian as they come. The name she has given her gastronomic movement, the “Delicious Revolution,” strikes the ear as one part fuzzy-headed Marxism, the other Brooksian bobo-speak. This woman is not, as they say, one of us.