Avocado

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 »

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 »