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There are times when I just don’t feel like cooking anything that takes more than five minutes of preparation work. I can get pretty busy sometimes and cooking is the last thing on my mind. That’s when I reach for one of my favorite foods, ramen. There’s something about it. [...]

Awwwww Yeah! It’s that time of year again! Bring an appetite and lots of cash!

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Ninth Avenue Food Festival 2008

Date: May 17, 2008 (Sat) - May 18, 2008 (Sun)
Time: 9:30AM - 6:30PM
Cost: Restaurants, Vendors, Merchants, and Food Shops will charge each food item accordingly
Location: 9th Avenue from 37th Street to 57th [...]

Mother’s Day is a day where we celebrate and honor that special lady in our lives.  In many countries, including the United States, Mother’s day is celebrated on the second Sunday of May. This year’s Mother’s Day falls on May 11, 2008. This Saturday, I am planning to bring my parents to a steak house [...]

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I was at Whole Foods today and as I was walking past the fennel, I noticed these small green spirals being sold for $7.99 a pound. They are weird looking. They are digusting looking. They are Maine fiddleheads. What’s a fiddlehead? I”m glad you asked.
A fiddlehead is the [...]

An anonymous Beijing-based billionaire threw down $500,000 for different vintages of Romanee Conti, a Burgandy wine that’s considered to be one of the world’s most exclusive. The vintages ranged from 1961 to 2002. Suddenly, that $20 merlot doesn’t seem all that expensive.
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Researchers in Switzerland turned Fujitsu’s HOAP-3 humanoid robot and taught it some vital omelet preparation know-how. I am impressed. Watch this robot scramble eggs, cut ham, and grate cheese!

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Pan-seared New Zealand Lamb Racks
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I’m still working on that learning curve of transitioning from non-stick cookware to stainless steel.  I had a small lamb rack in the freezer for the past few months and I finally decided to put it to the test.  I kept it simple this time around, no fancy ingredients, just [...]

I’ve officially entered the realm of stainless steel cooking. Using stainless steel pans for the first couple of days has proved to be a small challenge. And yet, the transition from non-stick cookware to the new set wasn’t as difficult as I initially thought. The stainless steel heats up faster and I had to adjust [...]

Don’t you just hate it when you go to an Asian restaurant and you’re given a fork instead of chopsticks? Fret no more as the Stix glasses will someday come to the rescue.  But seriously, WTF!?
Many of these conceptual ideas often arise from a case of need. The frame design does seem to be contemporary [...]

I remember the feeling when I took out my very first Nintendo Entertainment System out of its box, the excitement and anticipation was a full body experience. Even though the feeling didn’t exactly come close to that when I took out the Calphalon Contemporary Stainless Steel pots and pans out of the box, it [...]