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Feast with Your Eyes: Simple Plating Tips for Home Cooks

Our students can always expect delicious food, but they are often surprised that it's so delicious since they just learned to make it themselves. As I recently watched students serve up their wedge ...

Elevate Any Dish with Microgreens

Made popular by fine dining restaurants, microgreens are a great visual addition to almost any dish. The delicate little greens are basically the seedlings or earliest stages of edible vegetables and ...

Orange Crisps

“Citrus Season” is considered to be December through April, so we are smack in the midst of it right now – and does my kitchen ever show it! We have everything from Clementines and Ruby Red ...

A Salsa of a Different Style

Salsa is America’s most popular condiment and pico de gallo is the fresh version. Both have a myriad of uses, with tortilla chips munched out of hand and as a condiment for Mexican food being the ...

Platter Presentation and Table Display

Now that we are in the middle of holiday entertaining season, you may be busy planning a party. You'll want to consider decor and presentation, as well as the menu itself. I find platter presentation ...

How to Present your Food

I’ve been thinking a lot about atmosphere and aesthetics these days and how it affects our experience of food and dining. I know most people care about appearance on some level, the most basic being ...

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Feast with Your Eyes: Simple Plating Tips for Home Cooks

Elevate Any Dish with Microgreens

Orange Crisps

A Salsa of a Different Style

Platter Presentation and Table Display

How to Present your Food

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