Thai Cooking Classes
I’d love to go to a cooking demonstration like that, but most cooking classes here involve the participants doing the preparation and cooking under the eye of the instructor — usually at night school from 7-9pm. After a day at work, cooking tea for the family, then rushing off to night school, that just feels [...]
Features of Thai Dishes
Living in Los Angeles affords me many opportunites for Thai food so I feel somewhat qualified in stating this soup was superior to most. Spicy Grilled Beef Salad with Lemon Grass, Mint & Toasted Rice (Yam Neau Nahm Dtok) and if I ever prepare it, I would add some glass noodles, which I think would [...]
Best Methods for Learning Cooking
Keep reading cook books and trying things from them. There are some books on cooking techniques — my favourite is Robert Farrar Capon’s _The Supper of the Lamb_. Try to find out how things work — one of the reasons that I like Fr Capon’s book is that he explains, for example, just what is [...]
Cooking Vacations
I live in Milwaukee, WI, USA and am looking for a local location that someone may know of that offers general cooking classes. I am interested in gourmet cooking but I have had no formal training, so would like to start with the basics. Whether you know of an actual source in the area, or [...]
Italian Sauces Cookbook
I just bought this great cookbook on making quick and easy sauces for italian dishes, here’s the info. If you know of any other newsgroups that might be interested please post a copy in them.This great little spiral bound cookbook contains delicious pasta sauce recipes along with explicit directions on how to cook your pasta [...]
The Different Methods for Learning Cooking
Nothing is better then food prepared well…don’t settle for instant foods and quicky things that are poor imitations of the real thing. Learn to appreciate that which is the standard…my first suggestion is buying the bible of cooking..Joy of Cooking… My advice is start reading about food and food preparation. Read recipes that interest you [...]
Art of professional cooking
I was given “Mastering the Art of French Cooking” this was the first major cookbook by Julia Child, and it’s still a source for good basic cooking techniques. If it’s a good cookbook, spend some time reading up about “how to do things.” That’s how I learned to handle a chef’s knife. In this book [...]
Teaching cooking at the Boys/Girls Clubs
The hospital where I teach cooking classes has an outreach program for inner city youths. I gave 4 classes this week at different centers. The point of the classes is to teach nutrition and healthy food options to kids who spend most of their time at home without any supervision. Dinner is usually the standard [...]
Food Careers
You could do lots of different kinds of writing — freelance writing about your own love of food (and nostalgic food memories), the latest trends in cooking, how to shop for good ingredients (the freshest local produce and how to select it, the best imported cheeses and where to find them, etc. Or writing cookbooks [...]
How to Make your Food More Tasty?
Great illustrations and easy to follow “how-to” instructions. 6. Look at what tools you have access to right now. If you use a food processor, check out Jean Andersons’ book on FP cooking. Ditto Barbara Kafka on Microwave cooking (“Microwave Gourmet”). Learn to make duxelles, green goddess (better than store-bought), salsa, more. Use your microwave [...]
Kitchen – what tools do we need?
I have a home at last. Comes with stove, fridge, oven. I own a mixmaser. I want to learn to cook. Not all day in tehkitchen cooking, but better than pre-cooken frozen meals. I have a mixmaster. What would I need a blender or food processor for? One or the other, or both? What do [...]
How to cook “well”?
I think real experience is best. Having said that, around here (San Francisco Bay Area), many of the junior colleges have cooking programs. Some of them are fairly well recommended, and I believe that they are all cheap. You might investigate one of these kind of programs. The chefs I’ve dealt with (former GF, friends, [...]
