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Battenberg
Battenberg may seem intimidating when you first try to attempt it, I felt the same way when I first tried. I've been on the hunt for a recipe that tastes good, yields a professional looking cake but isn't ludicrously complicated. This is what I came up with.
By Faith Stratton8 years ago in Feast
Best Healthy Cookbooks of 2018
If there's one trope that has long plagued people who want to eat healthy, it's the "bad health food" stereotype. Health food of the past was known for being pretty terrible, having weird textures, or smelling foul. Nowadays, this isn't the case.
By Ossiana Tepfenhart8 years ago in Feast
SKEP – Fruit Routes Summer 2018. Top Story - June 2018.
Fruit Routes, June 2018 at Loughborough University in the U.K., was three days of events created and curated by artists and food activists Anne-Marie Culhane & Paul Conneally around food systems, food production, eating together, growing, and climate change. Fruit Routes always has a feast built into it, sometimes more than one; this year it was a Wild Tea Party called 'In Your Hands' where foraged nettle and sage tea was drunk followed by tasseography, a reading of the tea leaves.
By Paul Conneally8 years ago in Feast
Gumbo
My mother's family is from Louisiana. Growing up in southern California I thought Louisiana was the best place to be from. My maternal grandfather, Arthur "Pops" Smith, worked on the railroad and brought his wife and nine kids to Los Angeles from Shreveport, Louisiana in the late 1940s. Decades before my birth, he started a series of successful businesses. My grandmother, a stay at home mom, was the glue and matriarch of the family, big and tall in stature, she was affectionately called "Big Mom". The family originally settled in Watts, a suburb of south Los Angeles where the kids attended school and eventually moved on to Compton, a city a little further south. As my grandfather's businesses continued to grow, he and his wife moved to a newly developed city called Carson, just a little more south of Compton.
By Robin Hearon8 years ago in Feast
Eight Foods You Won't Believe Have a Museum Devoted to Them
Food museums channel our fascination with cooking and food manufacturing methods, offering us a window into how our ability to master them has evolved throughout history. While most well-known museums of this sort tend to focus on the broader strokes of the science, mechanics, and artistry of food prep and enjoyment, many choose more specific areas of focus. For every Museum of Food and Drink or New York Food Museum, there seems to be a growing number of institutions devoted to spreading the gospel of a single food item like the ones shared here.
By Anthony Beal8 years ago in Feast
Recipe | Chocolate Cake With Whipped Orange Filling
I made this particular cake for Father's Day. But of course you can make this any time and change the decorations. I know that my dad loves chocolate cake, so I was on the hunt for the perfect chocolate cake recipe. In the past, I have always struggled to get a chocolate cake to rise well during the baking process. For the design that I had planned, I needed to have the cake rise whilst baking. But I know that chocolate cakes are notorious for not rising much. You see my problem? I also know that chocolate cakes can be rather dry. So, I had a few different features of chocolate cakes that I wanted to avoid and I think I achieved that with this recipe.
By Abbie Waterson8 years ago in Feast
Top Cookbooks for Beginners
There has never been a better time to be a foodie than right now. High quality meals and fine dining are readily accessible and culinary TV programming is undoubtedly in its heyday, inspiring a new generation of home cooks. Perhaps the only downside of this zeitgeist is an oversaturation of content. In particular, there is a plethora of cookbooks on the market right now, making it a daunting task to find the right book for you.
By Joseph D. N. Kendrick8 years ago in Feast
Girl's Best Friend
Many people say that dog is man's best friend, which holds a certain truth to it. Others say diamonds are a girl's best friend. There is truth to that statement, but very little. Let's be honest, if we ladies had to make an honest decision between diamonds and food, food would definitely be the winner—hands down! Because who doesn't like food?!
By Rebekah Lott8 years ago in Feast
Veganism for Beginners
So, you've decided to go vegan... Congratulations! You've made a great decision for your overall health, the welfare of animals, the environment, and believe it or not, your own billfold! Or, you're still considering it, which is great too! But, how in the world does one begin to change every eating habit they've ever developed, since the day they started eating baby food?
By Mandy Ratzloff8 years ago in Feast
