How to Prepare an Avocado Video by: Dear Martini: The “what the heck is it?”, how-to, and why of using avocados in cooking. Dear Martini is comprised of two San Francisco Bay Area chefs that are looking to change the way home cooks learn techniques to become successful in their own kitchens. Visit their blog [...] Read more »
Zest
Two San Francisco Bay Area Chefs Share Cooking Techniques Video by: Dear Martini: The “what the heck is it?”, how-to, and why of using zest in cooking. Dear Martini is comprised of two San Francisco Bay Area chefs that are looking to change the way home cooks learn techniques to become successful in their own [...] Read more »
Chicken Tinola
Recipe for Chicken Ginger Soup Recipe for a quick and easy to cook hearty chicken soup. Recipe and video by: Chef Ulam Pinoy For more recipes visit: www.ulampinoy.com Read more »
Noodles
How to Make Basic Japanese Noodles Video by: giraffepoison.com Visit her cooking and baking blog here: asweetroad.com From the filmmaker: This was my first making these specific noodles – I do not claim them to be completely authentic Japanese noodles (though they were delicious) Music by Atlas Sound. Read more »
All for the Love of Chocolate
Joan Coukos is a Chocolatier & CEO of CHOCOLAT MODERNE. She graduated magna cum laude from Duke University with a degree in French and Russian, and received an MBA from UNC Chapel Hill before entering the New York banking scene. Her extensive career included six years in Moscow during the rough and tumble days of [...] Read more »
Pho
A Vietnamese Noodle Soup Perfect for New Year’s Day One does not have to travel to Vietnam to enjoy Pho (rhymes with “fuh”) the much beloved traditional beef noodle soup. Luckily, Pho can be found in many places here in the United States. The story goes that this dish migrated from Northern Viet Nam to [...] Read more »
Tomato Sauce
Super 8 Documentary About Making and Storing Homemade Tomato Sauce This sweet documentary shows how fun and relatively easy it is to prepare and bottle your own tomato sauce. Shot in Super 8 by filmmaker Karen Asmundson, it’s a nice peek at how much fun can be had cooking up a nice batch of homemade [...] Read more »
Gemma: In the Kitchen
Adventures of a NYC Pastry Cook In this captivating account given to Fortnight Journal, twenty-two year old Gemma Matsuyama takes the viewer through her typical morning as a pastry cook at Loccanda Verde in New York City. Fortnight Journal: “Honoring the Past, Archiving the Future” Read more »
HOT WET GOOBERS
Film courtesy of the Southern Foodways Alliance at the University of Mississippi. A short film about boiled peanuts, honoring Hardy Farms of Hawkinsville, Georgia, the recipients of the 2011 Ruth Fertel Keeper of the Flame Award. For more SFA films, visit www.southernfoodways.org. Read more »
Norwegian LEFSE
Video by: David Benrud From the filmmaker: Each year my family gathers to make lefse. Lefse is a traditional soft, Norwegian flatbread. It is made of potato, milk and cream. This is the recipe that my Grandma Emelia taught us. Read more »