Reading food labels is a good practice. Tartrazine or FD&C Yellow 5 is an approved synthetic organic dye found in many food products as a food coloring; it is lemon in color and water soluble. Some common products containing tartrazine are soft drinks, carbonated drinks, ice cream, ice pops, jam, jelly, gelatins, mustard, yogurt and noodles. In the late [...]
Continue reading...22. May 2010
Standard Operating Procedures At home like at any respectable foodservice operation or manufacture we can adopt standard operating procedures. Wash your hands with soapy water or use an alcohol based hand cleanser after using the rest room. Wash your hands before and after handling raw meats. Store raw meat products on the lowest rack [...]
Continue reading...18. May 2009
Coconut Water! Coconuts are fruits of the coconut palm tree, native to the South Pacific, Southern Asia and now prolific in South America, Hawaii and Florida. Coconut water is found in the center of a fresh coconut, it is thin and almost clear with a slight almond flavor. For centuries, these tropical areas and their inhabitants [...]
Continue reading...7. April 2009
Choices… Table Salt, Sea Salt or Kosher salt? The nutritional value of sea, table and kosher salts are all the same … the difference lies in their taste and texture. The harvest of sea salt is through the evaporation of seawater, table salt is mined from rock salt and kosher salt is made by compacting granular [...]
Continue reading...18. March 2009
Slow Food is a movement that started 20 years ago as an alternative to the fast food culture of today. There are many sites to browse on the net: slowfood.com, slowfood.org, slowfoodnation.org, slowfoodfoundation.org just to name a few. Slow food means preparing your food by traditional methods emphasizing quality ingredients and presentation. Stop… you say and [...]
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30. July 2010
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