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  • Recipe

    Cocktail Onions

    The perfect accompaniment to your next Gibson martini.

  • Story

    How Are Nonalcoholic Beer and Wine Made?

    Secrets of fake booze revealed.

  • Story

    Tasty Kosher Products

    Kosherfest debuts chocolate liqueur and treats for doggies.

  • Story

    Mushrooms Will Save the World

    And other findings from Taste^3^ 2007.

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    Warning: Flavor Vacuum at Thai Bistro

    it had adjusted itself to the marketplace. It was as if some mad scientist in their kitchen had invented a culinary flavor vacuum extractor which left the texture and visual appearance of the food untouched, yet rendered it...

  • Blog

    What a Tool

    Popular Science plumbs the lab-rat particulars of high-tech kitchen tools.

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    alcohol free wine

    Various methods are used. As far as I know, all start with standard wine and none remove absolutely all the alcohol. Reverse osmosis (membrane) and vacuum distillation (boiling the alcohol off in an artificial vacuum; the vacuum...

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    Anyone tried trendy sous vide cooking at home?

    to vacuum pack an item; is it possible to rig something to get a similar effect? Any bright ideas, recipes, resources to point me to? Remember hearing about some dangers w/ botulism; what should I watch out for? Aside from sous...

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    Drip or Percolator?

    My coffee maker has seen its last days, thank goodness. Now, I am considering what to buy. Husband’s biggest complaint is that it was never hot enough. Mine was flavour, no matter how much we spent on coffee beans and using...

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    PDX: Gifty Edibles

    Vacuum sealed packages of smoked salmon are available at many places and they don’t need to be refrigertated. Marionberry jam is a NW unique item and OR Pinot Noirs are great. You can probably find some OR wine jelly which...

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    coffee help

    quantities and grind it at the store. Then I assumed it was the apparatus, so I switched from a drip coffee maker to a french press. Still, bitter and stale tasting coffee. So now I am assuming its the water. HELP!-do I use...

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    Wine Shop in San Diego?

    We’ve recently discovered Holiday Wine Cellar in Escondido. They have a wonderful selection of domestic and foreign wines along with a decent offering of higher end distilled products and beer. They offer tastings (Mondays...

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    Best mole in the city

    I am on a quest for a dark alchemically distilled mexican chocolate based mole that does not know from a can. The real thing please. I have had New York pseudo-mole enough thank you. When I was in Mexico City I had the real thing...

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    Espresso/Cappucino Machine

    deal on Ebay. Always always use distilled water in your espresso machine, not filtered or bottled water, and you will never have to deal with calcium deposits build-up. If you buy a used one, you run the danger of it already...

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    What to bring back from Spain?

    from Southern Spain. The triple distilled extra seco from Machaquito is particularly fine. http://www.machaquito.com/pag1in.htm More prosaically, the other thing I always stock up on is Valor chocolate bars specifically the nut...

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