While this looks like a beautiful brass object, it’s actually used for a fairly gruesome purpose. It’s used to press a duck or lobster carcass to create gourmet French dishes. WiseGeek has a good description of how this is used. A duck press, incidentally, is usually made of brass or another heavy-weight metal. It stands [...]
This coffee maker is hand made in Holland. It maintains a perfect brewing temperature throughout the process of making a perfect cup of coffee. It uses an independent energy-efficient heat exchanger that brews directly into the stainless-steel-lined ThermoJug server. In this video Poul Mark, founder of Transcend Coffee in Edmonton, Alberta Canada demonstrates how to [...]
Making strawberry jam is a fairly simple task. You simply cut and mash up the fruit, heat it up with sugar until it boils and gels, pour into jars, and then finish with a hot water bath. While the steps are simple, it requires some precision with ingredient proportions, temperatures, and cooking times. It helps [...]
This pan makes four miniature wedding cakes at once. Can you imagine how difficult it would be to make these without this pan? You’d have to bake a sheet cake, cut the tiers, frost, build, etc. With this pan you just pour, bake, frost, and then stand back and wait for the accolades. There are [...]
Sixty years ago the world changed… for the better. One day the world was dark, somber, gray, and boring. Then one day a new cake came out of the oven. Poodles jumped for joy, housewives rejoiced, and little kittens began playing with balls of string. Now you can celebrate this glorious event by throwing your [...]
I lived in Paris for two years and know how difficult it is to work in a country without a full grasp of the language. This is especially true when your job is filled with local expressions and terminology. This book/cd, English for Restaurant Workers, is for those that are new to the United States [...]