Hey, hot stuff. Oh sorry, we weren’t talking to you. We were flirting with our food. With the rise of food photography, we have taken our epicurean choices up a notch. Restaurants and chefs can rise to celebrity status, but they have to keep au courant with what is trending in an industry that isFIND OUT MORE |

A long time ago, in a land far, far away, people paid with cash. It sure seems that way, doesn’t it? If you ask someone today if they have change for a $20, you will likely be met with a blank stare. As a restaurant, you are probably keenly aware of this if your POSFIND OUT MORE |

Like many words in the English language, the word “fine” can have many different meanings. When someone asks how you are doing and you answer “fine” they may imagine that it is code for “not very well at all.” Yet when we bring the word “fine” before the word “dining”, the tables turn. We expectFIND OUT MORE |

As Christmas approaches each year, I get more and more excited for one of my favorite southern Italian traditions: The Feast of the Seven Fishes (Festa dei sette pesce). There are many variations of this feast and the number of fish can even vary, up to as many as thirteen different kinds! Regardless of howFIND OUT MORE |

Preserving your own foods allows you to pickle your favorite fruits and veggies with your own unique blend of seasonings, smoke your favorite meat to get that perfect woody flavor, or even ferment your favorite veggies to get some healthy probiotics into your diet. Have you ever thought about preserving your own fruits and veggies, eggs,FIND OUT MORE |

Photo via Flickr member purits Is there any delight as singular as dreamy, creamy ice cream? Whether it’s served in a cone or a cup, ice cream is a treat that immediately evokes images of summer, but is delicious year round. And no matter what flavor is your favorite, there’s one thing most people willFIND OUT MORE |

Photo via Flickr member thedelicious While growing up, there were some families in my community who would regularly kick back on Sundays with a late afternoon meal of luxuriant prime rib, an impressive cut of beef roasted in its own juices for an unctuous flavor. My family was not one of them: we just ateFIND OUT MORE |

What kind of pot can be used indoors and out, for baking and frying, and braising and roasting? The Dutch oven. Dutch oven cooking is, in my opinion, not given the attention it deserves. It’s one of the oldest, tested-and-true cooking methods in the United States, and yet in the general population, few people evenFIND OUT MORE |

Like many words in the English language, the word “fine” can have many different meanings. When someone asks how you are doing and you answer “fine” they may imagine that it is code for “not very well at all.” Yet when we bring the word “fine” before the word “dining”, the tables turn. We expectFIND OUT MORE |

Photo via Flickr member Quintanamedia To many, perfectly cooking a whole turkey remains a fairy-tale dream. In real life, the results are often less perfect, with the turkey cooked so long that it becomes dry and unpalatable. Or on the flip side, perhaps the turkey looks perfectly cooked from the outside, but once cut into,FIND OUT MORE |