A while ago, I taught a cooking class for kids, something I love to do. This was a sushi making class for a group of eleven girls ages 5-8.

When the girls arrived at the party I had child sized aprons and paper chef hats waiting for them at the table. They spent the first half hour of the party personalizing their chef gear with markers and fabric pens.

I realize that this will be my second week in a row blogging about olive oil, but I came across some interesting information this week which I feel is worthy of passing along. 

Recently on the listserv for the Association for the Study of Food & Socie... Read More

We were very lucky to have @FCIstudent and @SweetKell two culinary student chefs from our student chef blog, “The Dish” join the chat to answer the many questions Chef2Chef Twitter chat participants had a... Read More

One of the things I’ve learned through cooking is that food outside of its familiar context is not necessarily a bad thing and great dishes often come about when we loosen up the boundaries of how and when we believe certain foods should be used. Check out the blog Ideas In Food for ... Read More

Cooking burn out happens to everyone including me. I’ve burnt out at just about every restaurant job I’ve ever had and while I do thrive on the adrenaline of restaurant life, I don’t thrive on the all consuming nature of the job.

The life of a private chef is typi... Read More

This week’s Twitter chat will be all about what you need to know in order to go to culinary school.  I’m predicting that this will be our best chat yet because it seems like everyone I know wants to be a professional chef or at least cook as well as a professional chef.  And since our Twitter followers consist of foodies, aspiring chefs, and professional... Read More

It seems to me that there is an increasingly disturbing aspect of American culture that simply will not go away. It is an ignorant, simple-minded, short sighted and arrogant view of how we look at the “other” parts of the pig, cow, chicken, duck, etc. Americans will not only refuse to eat the “nasty bits” they proclaim them as “disgusting... Read More

Some foods just have  a bad reputation without really having earned it on their own merits-or lack thereof. It seems to me that the fault lies with well-intentioned parents. My childhood includes stories of “finish eating that o... Read More

One might assume that the joy that comes from having your own garden is limited to those who have ample space to do so, but this is not true.

I live in San Francisco and although I am not one of those city dwellers fortunate enough to have my own plot of land, I do have a large, south facing porch which provides the perfect space for planting a potted garden.Read More

My boyfriend Robert was telling me a story about his 8 year old son Julian who, by most accounts, is becoming quite the culinary elitist. In this particular story they had been to a family party and Julian was refusing to eat hot dogs and chips along with the other kids and was inst... Read More