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Smoking Signals, Intriguing Swedish, Kurdistan, Peru ...

noreply@blogger.com (orsiko) — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:35:05 PST

"The dish looked so pure ...", it's the Swedish charm. Professional chefs on using up scraps. Tasting a legendary piece of a** in Kurdistan. Deceptively simple from Lima, Peru. Japan extreme eats,...

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Pickled Vegetables, Progressive Cooking and The Year of The Dragon.

noreply@blogger.com (OCK) — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 23:43:41 PST

How to satisfy the desire for crunch, glitterati of the New York food scene, welcome the year of the dragon and its spicy delights, some booze diary notes, tales on eating seasonal and local, concern...

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Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PST

Pizza Madness: Pizza In A Jar | Slice Pizza Blog
Slice is a weblog about America's favorite crusty, saucy, cheesy meal—pizza. We're Big Apple–based, with a special affinity for New York–style pies, but we're wild about pizza in general...

Paris - Lollipops at the Ritz [Flickr]

ockstyle — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 08:00:10 PST

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“Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy.” ~Eskimo Proverb

Tea Time at the Rits Paris - French pastry

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Chefs Wisdom, 9 Ways with Wine-n-Food, Olive Oil and Its Virginity Issues!

noreply@blogger.com (OCK) — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 08:12:06 PST

Going for a vegan lifestyle? "En garde" for the cheating ingredient! Dreaming of owning a restaurant? Few tips on how to start a successful one and Q&A with the pioneer of conceptual cooking....

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Recipe Writing, Urban Gardening and Hot Food Trends

noreply@blogger.com (OCK) — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 08:41:00 PST

Cookbooks and some tricks of the trade, the healthy side of fermented food, urban gardening, herbs and bacon, is it trendy or it's chronic? Old becoming the latest best thing? Offal! And who is using...

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Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PST

Seasonal Eating and Lucky Dumplings. Prepare for Chinese New Year!
lucky dumplings and bacon the collective obsession...

Seasonal Eating and Lucky Dumplings. Prepare for Chinese New Year!

noreply@blogger.com (OCK) — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 09:37:05 PST

Season eating and test kitchens, the thrill of food fights, the healthy ingredient with an industrial heritage, lucky dumplings and bacon the collective obsession. Want to bring some avant-garde...

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Links for 2012-01-20 [Digg]

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PST

Food fight!
There's a giddy, back-of-the-bus delight in breaking the rules around food. Have you ever been part of a food fight?
A Sharper Mind, Middle Age and Beyond
How to subtract 10 years from your brain’s age? Get a college degree.

Guilty Pleasures: Pecking Duck, Roasted Peppers and Celebrity Bites.

noreply@blogger.com (OCK) — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 06:56:00 PST

The power of the delicious starch-and-cream combos, how to glaze and dry your own duck, easy roasted peppers, the story behind the images of "nurturing from the earth” series and what is going to be...

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Foodies Way: Capers, Coffee and The Usual Table, Please!

noreply@blogger.com (Travel.Notes) — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 09:09:31 PST

Growing up in a small village. A little thing that makes a difference: capers. Whey, a valuable raw material. Loosing the head for a cup of coffee? Old habits die hard! And don't forget, savvy cooks...

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Links for 2012-01-18 [Digg]

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PST

Support for Internet Bill Wanes as Protests Spread
Protests on Wednesday quickly cut into support for two Internet piracy bills as Senator Marco Rubio, Republican of Florida, said he would no longer back the legislation he co-sponsored.

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Tue, 17 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PST

Coming Soon in a Bathtub! Wine, Decanter, Bubbles
Did you know that once upon a time bubbles in wine were considered a fault?

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Mon, 16 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PST

Cooking, Tasting, Fine Dining n the Chefs
A culinary walk on a famous promenade in the South of France. Chef talk about nose-to-tail cooking and tasting menus.

Cooking, Tasting, Fine Dining n the Chefs

noreply@blogger.com (orsiko) — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 11:18:01 PST

A culinary walk on a famous promenade in the South of France. Chef talk about nose-to-tail cooking and tasting menus. Meat and antibiotics, salmon and bagels, Brussels sprouts, some culinary forecast...

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Intimate Conversations, Badvertising, Adventurous Eaters and Fresh Trends

noreply@blogger.com (OCK) — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 07:28:11 PST

Food for thought on intimate meals: How Couples Keep Mealtimes Happy? Do you have a favorite part of favorite foods? What about some Omega3 to boost fertility? In the meantime we can enjoy some...

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Tue, 10 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PST

2012 Culinary Forecasts, With A Pinch of Medieval Condiments
What happened to banh mi, fried chicken, hamburger, pizza/vegetable, are they still trendy? Let's do not forget the Nordic food, think lichen, birch, ...

2012 Culinary Forecasts, With A Pinch of Medieval Condiments

noreply@blogger.com (Midori) — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 11:00:26 PST

What happened to banh mi, fried chicken, hamburger, pizza/vegetable, are they still trendy? Let's do not forget the Nordic food, think lichen, birch, wood sorrel, sea buckthorn ... Add couple of...

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Comfort Food, Career n Figure, Vegan Muscles and ... Banned Delicacies

noreply@blogger.com (OCK) — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 00:23:07 PST

How manipulative can be the competing demands of career on our figure? Young vegans muscle making their way into bodybuilding, is it belt tightening? In Japan is a desirable class of food yet is...

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Playing with Flavours! Intuitive Cooking and Baking...

noreply@blogger.com (OCK) — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 06:49:12 PST

What's the secret of success in culinary freestyling? And the surprising discovery that can shape the way we eat? Intuitive cooking and mixing heat with sweet... because after the roast, there's...

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Going Semi-Vegan and Other Food Memories

noreply@blogger.com (OCK) — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 06:30:26 PST

Could 2011 be a great year of food memories? It depends! In any case, meet some of the creative minds and their culinary agendas, indulge in the secret lives of six food bloggers and all about the...

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Bubbly n Bites: Canapés, Champagne and Blinis

noreply@blogger.com (orsiko) — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 09:30:26 PST

A bit of decadence, a handful crowd pleaser, some historic food and ... would you believe that an unassuming pastry mix could be mankind's greatest enemy?Miniature food ~ New Year's Eve canapés Wow...

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Maize, Bite-Sized Nibbles n Popular Recipes of 2011

noreply@blogger.com (Travel.Notes) — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 15:19:00 PST

Ancient and symbolic ~ Maize "Chef John Rivera Sedlar modern master of southwestern cuisine" When we think of maize, we think of humans’ ability to pull sustenance from soil ...Read more: PANTRY:...

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Paris - Petits Fours at the Ritz [Flickr]

ockstyle — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 21:56:51 PST

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"With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable." ~Thomas Foxwell Buxton

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Food Trends n Foods In Everyday Lives. If Pizza Is a Vegetable ...

noreply@blogger.com (OCK) — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 12:57:33 PST

Food classics with a twist ~ 11 Food and Drink Trends of 2011 "For one thing, when did kale get so hot? ... And meatballs?" After an year of eating and drinking, here are some reoccurring food and...

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Holiday Baking, Food, Wine and Philanthropy. Food for Though!

noreply@blogger.com (OCK) — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 08:26:06 PST

Classical roots ~ Aw, shucks! "A squeeze of lemon and a little turn of the pepper mill (black pepper, of course)" The classic way is to poach oysters in their own juice but oysters are also...

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Holiday Foods, Mock Shark's Fin Soup n Cookbook Evolution

noreply@blogger.com (orsiko) — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 03:03:12 PST

Key ingredients ~ Rolling in the Dough "From one simple recipe, four kinds of cookies" Cookie recipes are just about infinite, because almost anything can be shaped into a circle and ...Read more:...

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Got Beef or Shirataki? Food Traditions n The Science of Taste

noreply@blogger.com (orsiko) — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 11:25:15 PST

Experiment ~ The Miracle Noodle "But what if dieters could have as much delicious pasta as they wanted?" In the past decade, pasta has slowly disappeared from many American plates ...Read more:...

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Family album - Preparing some Swiss Chard ... [Flickr]

ockstyle — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 16:35:02 PST

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“Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Bites - Grilled Bell Pepper Nest with Cherry-Mozzarella [Flickr]

ockstyle — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 16:05:38 PST

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"Once you choose hope, anything's possible." ~Christopher Reeve

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~ Italian Cuisine by: OCKSTYLE
Nido di Peperoni Grigliati e Bocconcino di Mozzarella

Настоящая Итальянская Кухня
Aвтор: OCK Style
Photo-Фото: Lucia Zeccara

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Zeppole di patate [Flickr]

ockstyle — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 15:45:16 PST

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“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” ~Leonardo da Vinci

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Crickets or Locusts? Kitchen Vocabulary, Creative Juices and Holiday Notes

noreply@blogger.com (OCK) — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 08:19:28 PST

From around the globe ~ French dishes to try before you die "Chef Jean Joho knows a thing or deux about French food" The French chef began his formal chef training as an apprentice at the acclaimed...

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Food Trends 2012, Duck Prosciutto n Vegetarian Delights ...

noreply@blogger.com (OCK) — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 08:41:03 PST

Influence what we’ll be eating in 2012 ~ Food Trends to Watch "Predicting food trends is an inexact science (though some people are actually paid to do it)" At any rate, here’s our stab at what we...

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Party Food, Comfort Food, Cookies and Caviar

noreply@blogger.com (OCK) — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 04:07:07 PST

Honest rules ~ Michael Pollan Has Some Food Rules to Live By "Michael Pollan is a change-agent in the sustainable food movement."In 2010, Time Magazine named him one of the 100 most influential...

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Game Roast, Vegetarian Holidays and Viagra Salad. Season’s Eating!

noreply@blogger.com (OCK) — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 08:35:55 PST

Entertaining ~ Are canapés just too retro? "There must be some legacy from the 70s we actually enjoy" With the beginning of the festive season upon us, it’s time to dust off those party food...

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In Season: Turnips, Olives, Spain and NYC. Food Destinations and Homemade Presents

noreply@blogger.com (orsiko) — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 09:02:29 PST

How they really cook the books: Give thanks for the unsung skills of recipe testers "Richard Ehrlich helping Caroline Conran with recipes for her new book" At 11am in a kitchen in London, six...

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CookBooks, Supper Clubs, Wagyu Beef, Caviar, ...

noreply@blogger.com (Skipper) — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 09:48:56 PST

Down to earth ~ When the Chefs Come Home "A cache of at-home guides by high-flying chefs arrived in 2011" In new cookbooks, star chefs like Mario Batali and Ferran Adrià step into the home kitchen...

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