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76Pressure Cooking
The first pressure cooker was invented by Denis Papin, a French physician and mathematician. Papin called his device "marmite de Papin" or the Papin Digester*. It worked exactly as pressure cookers do...
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78The "Best" Cookware
All Clad is a manufacturer of composite metals that originally made sandwich materials for aerospace, shipbuilding, and automotive industries. The company was founded in 1968 based on a patent by John Ulam....
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74Kitchen Cookware Substitutions
It happens more often than we like. We are in the middle of a simple or complex recipe and it calls for some special aparatus to finish the cooking process. Melted chocolate: You need a double boiler. ...
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73Kitchen Ingredient Substitutions
This happens to everyone who has ever stepped foot into the kitchen to make something. A key ingredient is missing. Perhaps more importantly, you'd rather not use the butter, oil, or fat a recipe calls for....
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73Picking the "Best" Vegetables
As with fruit, knowing when a vegetable is ripe (or past it's prime) can be tricky. This is important not only for flavor, but for health as well. In this hub I will discuss root vegetables (potato, onion,...
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65Beef Burgundy Chili
This is absolutely my favorite chili recipe. It requires one pan, well stockpot, and plenty of time. After cooking storage in the refrigerator overnight actually improves it's flavor, much like Italian...
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78The "Best" Kitchen Utinsils
I have bought and routinely use these tools. I've found them indispensable, durable, and easy to use.
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63Chocolate Fun
Chocolate has gone from a 'delicacy of the rich' in the late eighteen hundreds to a delicacy for the masses. Here in the U.S. we can thank Hershey for the transition. In some ways has become the delicacy of...
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