It’s February: Be Smart, Love your Heart

February is heart month, so this is an opportunity to provide our readers with some tips for ordering heart-healthy meals when dining out.
Many restaurants offer tasty meals that are low in calories, saturated fats and cholesterol, so it is possible to enjoy wholesome and delicious food that is also kind to your ticker.
Here are some [...]

Move Over Colonel Sanders; Fried Chicken is Going Gourmet

Colonel Harland Sanders must be turning over in his grave – again.  First his beloved Kentucky fried chicken had to make room for Kentucky grilled chicken.  Now, one of the south’s most famous comfort foods is being imported by northerners and turning into haute cuisine.
Upscale restaurants in Chicago have taken a hankering to the breaded [...]

Interview with Chef Heriberto Herrera

Cuban cuisine has taken off in New York City. Chefs like Heriberto Herrera from Amor Cubano have brought Cuban cuisine into the limelight. The restaurant represents traditional Cuban home cooking, all the recipes Chef Herrera works with were given to him by two extraordinary Cuban ladies that worked with him on perfecting each dish. They usually [...]

Cocoon – futuristic cooker that genetically grows meat and fish like popcorn

Image by Electrolux Design Lab via Flickr

This years winner of the Electrolux Design Lab competition is the “Cocoon”, a conceptual fish and meat maker by Rickard Hederstierna from Lund Institute of Technology. The Cocoon [see video] prepares genetically engineered and prepackaged meat and fish dishes by heating muscle cells identified by radio frequency identification (RFID) [...]

Success Rice Looking for Creative Cooks

Are you thrifty and creative in the kitchen?  If so, you may be eligible to submit a favorite restaurant-style recipe using Success Rice that will feed a family of four for $10.  Back by popular demand, the Success Rice Feed 4 for $10 Restaurant Recipe Challenge is asking consumers to send in their favorite rice-based [...]

Keith Richards Loves Pie

Poor Stuart Cable.  All he wanted was some of the delicious-looking Shepherd’s Pie that was sitting backstage before a concert.  Stuart played drums for the Rolling Stones on one of their European tours, and tells this story in his book “Demons and Cocktails.”
When Mick Jagger came in to see him glopping several heavy spoonfuls of [...]