Understanding Olive Oil Differences | An Essential Buying Guide
Despite its revered status, olive oil is the most misunderstood oil that is found in the average kitchen. The average person goes into a supermarket and encounters terms like Extra Virgin, Organic, Cold-Press, Certified and Refined. And…more times than not, the customer doesn’t know what those terms actually mean. We read the labels and [...]
Continue ReadingMaking Real Garlic Aioli (Toum) the Lebanese Way
There is little room for error when one makes true Lebanese Garlic Aioli (also know as “Toum”) . Unlike European aioli, it traditionally has only 4 ingredients (olive oil, lemon juice, garlic and salt). Counter-intuitively, having just 4 ingredients increases the difficulty in achieving its signature creamy texture. That is because emulsifying [...]
Continue ReadingPaleo Diet: A Healthy Way Back to Nature
Anyone could tell you that we were not designed to eat the modern Western diet. We didn’t evolve to eat cheese burgers and sugar sodas. It isn’t natural. A growing community has responded to this unhealthy eating trend by modeling the foods they eat after the human diet before the arrival of civilization and farming. This is called the [...]
Continue ReadingA Cup of Sumatran Perfection for Breakfast
Coffee from the Indonesian island of Sumatra is at the top of the coffee pyramid. It has that signature taste of Indonesian coffee, making it such an exotic treat for the coffee lover. Why Sumatran Coffee? Sumatra has its own coffee tradition, separate from much of the coffee produced in Java, other areas of Southeast Asia and the rest of [...]
Continue ReadingA Quick Food Guide To The Mediterranean Diet
What country has the best diet? Studies have proven that the Mediterranean diet that is eaten in Italy, Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean is substantially healthier than what the average American eats. People who follow it live longer and have lower rates of cardiovascular disease and cancer. Studies also suggest that it can make a difference [...]
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