Stop feeding your guest STEAK.

Lesson Learned: It means you don’t like them very much.

 

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Where is your BBQ going ?

Almost everyone will grill out during the year.  But what are you barbequing?   Most of us will pick a steak or a hamburger to cook when people come over for dinner.  But I am trying to push people toward other types of meat.  Did you know that lamb is the most popular meat in the world?  Followed closely by GOAT, yes goat.

 

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Getting to the Essence of the Matter at Asheville Wine & Food Festival

 

Essence, the second installment in the Asheville Wine & Food Festival, delved a bit deeper into the circus theme and offered up eight different competitors in the cocktails category and five more in the hors d'oevres arena. We got a chance to see a lot of new faces and taste their incredible ideas, all of which needed to incorporate a circus-theme.

 

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Bourbon Lemonade

Photography by Amy Brinkley March 17, 2015

 

Bourbon Lemonade Cocktail Recipe

In this bourbon lemonade recipe, everyone’s favorite picnic drink gets a splash of spirits and a sprig of rosemary. Whip some up at an outdoor get-together.

by AMY BRINKLEY

 

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Behind Every Good Chef...

Behind Every Good Chef...

Is a kitchen staff who can make or break them

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Etiquette is the guidebook

Etiquette is the guidebook by which we all get along with one another in the smoothest ways possible. But, like changing and merging cultures, we have to change our minds about some of the old fashioned rules of manners over time. Some of these old fashioned rules can now be updated, but technology has also given us cause to add new ones.

 

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