Food & Beverage

The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for cooking, brewing, feasting and festing.

Food Design Competition

The sixth Food Design competition just announced their call to entries: Participation in the competition is free and is open to all those who want to put to test their abilities in projects linked to the theme of Food Design. Particularly architects, professionals, artists, craftsmen and designers creatives, high school students, university students and students […]

Recipe: Enchiladas Verdes de Jocoque

My mother turned the entire family onto this particular flavor of green chile enchiladas several years ago. Being from New Mexico, we’ll try anything that has real green chile or red chile sauce in, on, or around it. The sour cream (Jocoque is a sour-cream-ish product in Mexico) and sharp cheddar combined with the fiery […]

Irish Soda Bread with Fennel & Cinnamon

Irish Soda Bread with Fennel & Cinnamon

St. Patrick’s Day is coming up – it’s next Wednesday! If you’re planning an Irish-themed meal, this recipe for Irish Soda Bread with Fennel & Cinnamon on Everybody Likes Sandwiches looks quite nice. Growing up, ours was a pretty standard (but delicious!) St. Paddy’s Day meal: Corned beef, cabbage, potatoes… I don’t even remember having […]

Fried Shallots

I absolutely love shallots (perhaps my favorite holiday dish is shallots in red wine from Roger Verge’s Vegetables), but I’ve never thought to make fried shallots to add a little crispy punch and texture to Vietnamese food, a quick salad, a burger, or heck, just on their own. Garnishes are something I so often forget […]