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Josh Stone's Articles in Cooking

  • What Every Prep Chef Should Know About Cutlery
    Ah, the prep chef, happily whacking away with a steady rhythm. You have no worries about how the Hollandaise sauce is going to turn out, nor how fussy those customers at table seven are. All you have to worry about is making food the right consistency before passing it off to someone else.
  • Why Local Produce is Better
    Today's food buyer has choices which previous generations never dreamed of. At any given time of the year, they can go to the wholesaler and buy produce that was once only seasonally available. You can have strawberries in November and corn on the cob in February.
  • A Guide to Exotic Fruits For Chefs
    We will explore the fruit varieties of the world which are far removed from the usual fare. For the bold, the creative, or the daring gourmand...
  • The Top Ten Myths About Fat Burning
    Ah, you chefs! You tempt us with your delicacies, engross us with your artistic mastery, and seduce our senses into submission. That's what you hear a lot of, isn't it? The subject of weight gain and loss seems to come up a lot whenever there's a chef in the room.
  • A Chefs Guide to Sweeteners
    The Industrialized world is obsessed with diets, and yet has the raging sweet tooth of a child. Everybody wants non-fattening food that tastes fat. And so here we are in the industrial age, working our laboratories round-the-clock to come up with a way to have the taste without the calories. This has given us a host of sort-of, one-off-from, and flat-out substitute sugars.
  • Chef Career - A Chefs Guide to Exotic Fruits
    Ah, the everyday fruits at the English-speaking table: apple, orange, banana. Tangerine, peach, strawberry. Maybe a bunch of grapes or the occasional kiwi. As anyone can see, the fruit table at the typical banquet is stuck in a rut.
  • All About Honey
    The consumption of honey by humans is an anomaly; honey is the only food produced by insects which humans eat, and is one of the only two substances produced organically whose sole purpose is for food - the other is mammalian breast milk. As a result, bees are the insect most commonly domesticated by humans the world over.
  • Commonly Used Spices A Chef's Spice Guide
    This guide is a quick look-up table for the commonly-used spices.

    Oregano - A peculiar leafy green herb, in that it is one of the few which is more potent dried than fresh. Taste like a cross between mint and lemongrass.
  • A Unique Chefs Spice Reference
    This guide is a quick look-up table for the commonly-used spices.

    Fenugreek - This is native to India and southern Europe. The part used is the hard, yellow-brown seeds that come from the plant's pods.
  • A Chef's Spice Reference
    This guide is a quick look-up table for the commonly-used spices.

    Allspice - Comes from the unripe berry of the Pimienta dioica tree. It has a flavor that is similar to cinnamon, pepper, cloves, and nutmeg, and so it gets its name from the effect of combining those flavors.
  • All About Monosodium Glutamate (MSG) in the Food Industry
    Pretty controversial for a food additive. The reactions to it are all over the dial. Patrons object to MSG in restaurant food, then go home and make a soup with chicken bullion just loaded with MSG and think nothing of it.
  • Celebrity Chefs of the Food Network
    It's hard to imagine how televised cuisine exposition got by in the days before the Food Network. Founded in 1993 and owned by the E.W. Scripps Company, the Food Network is a round-the-clock American cable TV channel devoted to food: mostly cooking it, and eating it. In its first ten years, it has single-handedly given rise to a new class of television personality, known as the 'celebrity chef'.
  • Unusual Foods for the Culinary Arts Instructor
    Of course, your pupils have already been put through their paces with ordinary fare by now. They've got braising down pat by now. They aced Safe Hood Handling 101.
  • Quick Tips for Line Cooks
    A little list of the tips for line cooks that they tend to glaze over in culinary school...

    How to steam milk
    Start with a cold metal cup with a handle on it, a steam wand on an espresso machine, and some cold milk.
  • A Comprehensive List of Food Safety Tips
    Whether you have a career in food preparation, entertain privately, or just cook for your family, food handling has some science to it that you should know.





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