Making smart choices at the market and filling my pantry with healthy items has been the key to my weight loss plan. It encourages me to cook at home and to avoid the temptations of dining out. It also allows me to control my calorie intake as well as the quality and wholesomeness of theFIND OUT MORE |
Palm Beach Food & Wine Festival – A Success!
From December 13-17, Palm Beach Food and Wine Festival welcomed over one hundred local and international chefs. What started off as a hopeful dream seven years ago has turned into an explosive, epicurean reality at the Four Seasons Hotel. David Sabin, festival organizer, has seen the festival grow from a three-hour foodie charity gathering toFIND OUT MORE |
Top Food Trends for 2014
Each year, the National Restaurant Association surveys thousands of top chefs around the country to learn what will be hot on restaurant menus in the upcoming year. Chefs rate each item as being a “hot trend,” “yesterday’s news,” or “perennial favorite.” Late in the autumn of 2013, the association interviewed nearly 1300 chefs to comeFIND OUT MORE |
How to Prevent Common Holiday Baking Mistakes
The holidays are filled with delicious baked goods as gifts and as beautifully plated snacks for when family and friends come over to visit. Your oven will be getting more of a workout over the holidays than it probably does throughout the rest of the year. Even if you are an experienced baker, the stressFIND OUT MORE |
10 Great Gluten-Free Winter Recipes to Try
Wintertime is a time when we seek warmth and comfort from our food to combat the chill from outside. For many, that means hearty dishes, which rely heavily on bread and other grains that make those with a gluten-free diet feel left out. Fortunately, there are plenty of excellent wintertime recipes that don’t include gluten,FIND OUT MORE |
Cooking with Mushrooms: 5 Meal Ideas
Not only are they delicious, but mushrooms contain some of the most potent forms of natural medicine on the planet, they are high in B vitamins, are an excellent sources of minerals (namely potassium, selenium, and copper), they stimulate the immune system, they have potential links to reduced risk of cancerous tumor growths, and theyFIND OUT MORE |
Chef Works Sponsors Palm Beach Food & Wine Festival Events for 2013
Chef Works is proud to announce that we are sponsoring the chef jackets and kids chef apparel for the 2013 Palm Beach Food & Wine Festival. The festival, already considered a distinguished, staple event on Palm Beach’s annual social roster, will take place throughout Palm Beach County, December 13-17, 2013. Net proceeds from Palm BeachFIND OUT MORE |
10 Essential Cooking Tools You Need for Your Kitchen
Whether you’re moving into a new kitchen, sorting through your existing cooking tools to determine which you should keep and which you can afford to give away, or if you’ve owned your kitchen for awhile but have decided to become serious about using it to its full potential, there are several cooking tools you cannotFIND OUT MORE |
12 Fun Holiday Treats to Make with Kids
The holidays are an excellent time for baking sweet treats to fit the winter theme. There’s nothing better than having a platter of cookies always on hand for the ever revolving door of holiday guests, and kids love to help create the magic in the kitchen on cold winter days. Here are some fun, easy,FIND OUT MORE |
5 Great Winter Soup Recipes
As temperatures drop and the days grow shorter, we turn to feel-good foods and habits to bring warmth back into our lives. One of the most comforting winter warm-ups is a steaming bowl of homemade soup, preferably by the fire with a cozy blanket and friends or loved ones. While it’s up to you toFIND OUT MORE |