They conduct market research, test groups, figure out if they can realistically get the quality of food that is their standard, search the globe for the best ingredients, test and retest recipes, patent spices, pay salaries, etc.

intimidated by some parts of the process. Any tempeh makers out there in ChowLand who can help? Recipes using the finished product would also be appreciated. Here are a few links to homemade tempeh, with subtle differences in the...

's a huge no no. If your recipe is telling you to do that... track down another.

Using my patented chow hypnosis ninja technique ™, I’ve sweet talked them into making them to order if they’re not busy, but this is not easy, and it’s damn near impossible on weekends. Even during a rush,...

A lot of pound cake recipes out there. Greg Patent's Baking in America has a dozen or so pound cake recipes, ranging from the plain pound cake to brown sugar pound cake, lemon pound cake, cornmeal pound cake and so on. His cakes...

You cannot copyright a recipe or a technique, though Homero Cantu is seeking to patent some of the devices he uses to create some items including one that makes edible paper ->...

combo of homey and fancy to win folks over. of course they are easy to make and also delicious. the old-fashioned brown sugar cake and the sour cream lemon pound cake in greg patent's “baking in america” are my go-to...

I picked up a bottle of Two Crabs brand the other day because I needed some for a recipe and the only store I had time to get to had it. Actually they had two brands, One Crab and Two Crab, and I arbitrarily chose the Two Crab...

this book or has cooked from it—I’d love to hear about the recipes tried.

hypothetically happens if, in the future, Monsanto can show, for whatever reason, that almost every carrot grown has some genetic attachment to their ‘newtype’ carrot they created in a lab and own the patent (or...

terra cotta styled tangine on the stovetop and in the oven and have not seen a dramatic difference. I have kept my cooking temp in the oven to 325 or less, however, and that might help. Rather than grabbing patent recipes, try...

There are quite a few, you’d be surprised at how many patents there are on bred produce by big companies. It is odd to think of it on things like strawberries vs. say, hybrid technology.

that nobody else seems to talk about is greg patent's “baking in america”— he goes thru old american baking recipes and updates them for today’s baker, organizing them by type of cake (sponge, pound, etc)...

Yes, your post may end up on the Home Cooking board where I recently posted this recipe for Shrimp with Chardonnay Dijon Cream sauce...it was heavenly! http://www.chowhound.com/topics/344168?query=shrimp+chardonnay&user_name= Yaela

Can anyone tell me about purple hull peas, are they similar to black eyed peas? Does anyone have any good recipes? Thanks, lizzy