Food and Drinks
How to Host a Dinner to Silver Service Standards
Tuesday, March 16th, 2010Dinner parties are a pretty versatile social event. They allow you to entertain people around your house and show off your culinary prowess, making your favourite dishes and allowing friends, family and colleagues to experience them too. When you start planning an event such as this, there are so many elements to consider: from the [...]
Do we Really Need Cutlery Anymore?
Tuesday, March 16th, 2010With more people working longer hours in order meet the demands of the business many things we use to take for granted, such as family dinning has been sacrificed. When you look back at your own eating habits where do you usually end up visualising yourself? With most people your first thought would be getting [...]
Fair Trade Coffee
Tuesday, March 16th, 2010Coffee used to be well, just plain coffee. You could order it with cream and/or sugar and that was pretty much the extent of the considerations. Now, the variation of terms bandied about is endless: organic coffee, gourmet coffee roasters who use only gourmet coffee beans, dark roast coffee, French roast and Arabica beans. There [...]
Health Benefits of Coconut Oil
Monday, March 15th, 2010Since centuries coconut oil has been used for cooking. Researchers have recorded the tremendous health benefits derived from coconut oil. In 1981, Prior et al concluded; coconut oil lowers cholesterol and it directly stimulates the thyroid function. In the presence of adequate thyroid hormone, LDL-cholesterol gets converted to essential anti-aging steroids, pregnenolone, progesterone and DHEA. [...]
Finding a Wine to Match Your Meal
Monday, March 15th, 2010For countless years we have been told to pair red wine with red meats and save white wine for choices like fish and poultry; but these archaic guidelines aren’t able to take into consideration the wide range of foods and produce available today with their multitude of varying flavours.
There is definitely much more to food [...]