As we enter prime strawberry season, including the delicious pick-your-own variety, Chow.com has a series of helpful videos on how to bring out the best in your berries. First up: Choosing strawberries. More videos after the jump.
It is Y&H's contention that home cooks sometimes stick to their personal techniques, even when those techniques are wrong and produce an inferior product. Chow.com's primer on cooking bacon shows that even ingredients that taste good, no matter how poorly you treat, them can improve by following a few simple procedures.
Somebody please tell me this is a joke.
If you haven't watched some of Chow.com's Supertaster videos, you need to get yourself over there right now. (Click on the Supertaster link in the lower left corner.) This episode tackles the subject of baby food. The funniest response? When the taster samples Roundy's vegetable turkey dinner: "Wow, was that unpleasant!"
Food isn't like music or movies. The hospitality business doesn't obsess over every restaurant or bistro or pub that opens during any particular year; it doesn't base its overall health on the success or failure of the newbies coming into the market. Restaurants, young and old, must complete against each other. In some ways, the [...]
Chow.com has just released its entertaining, if annoyingly click-heavy, feature The Year in Food 2008. It breaks down the year into nine neat categories, including environmental issues (good and bad), trendy eats, recessionary dining options, and media, among others. Among the subjects are Michael Phelps and his 12,000-calorie diet, Batter Blaster, and the ousting of [...]
