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Cheese as Art
The Art of Cheese making is a long standing, artisanal, creative process, full of culture, legacy and ideas on how to engage and thrill the senses. “An artisan is a person engaged in or occupied by the practice of a
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Rock, Paper, ‘Dinermite’ Eating On the Road
Editor’s Note: Omaha has developed a reputation as a ‘music town’ around the nation so we figured a good way to visit some of the food our community encounters was to talk to one of the finer bands in Omaha
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O Flavor, Where Art Thou?
Our flavor seeking odyssey begins with The Odyssey, as we find our freshly bathed hero, Odysseus, rubbing himself with olive oil before approaching a beautiful princess. But the ancient world had been using olive oil for lots of wonderful things
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Dining in Lincoln at the Metropolitan Hotel on Saturday, May 24, 1873
The first printed American restaurant menus appeared in the 1830s at Delmonico, the New York pioneer of haute cuisine and wine. “Bill of Fare” popular for much of the 19th century was by1900 eclipsed by “menu.” French and Chinese restaurants
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Cook Before You Leap? A recipe for sweet chili caramelized scallops and shrimp
One of my favorite cooking idioms is “you eat first with your eyes first” and I always want my food to be as beautiful as it is delectable. My background is in culinary education at Metro’s Institute for the Culinary
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Continental Drift: Lessons learned and unlearned from my time in the Eurozone
Every little boy has his first romantic crush. Don’t tell anyone, but mine was with food: mashed potatoes and gravy, to be specific. Mom used to tell the story of when the family was dining at the precursor of Mr.
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A Foodie is Born: Recipe for Pepper Crusted New York Strips with Cognac Morel Cream Sauce
Many of my most cherished food memories all come together at a restaurant situated in the heart of the Old Market. Most, if not all, of my involvement in the Omaha area culinary landscape emanates from a fortuitous job opportunity
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Eating, Drinking & Biking Around Omaha
Oh, the bicycle. There is no nobler method of transport; its awe-inspiring grace only surpassed by unparalleled precision, and such simplicity! A design centuries old, yet capable of propelling even the modestly athletic to daring speeds. And it’s the speed
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Vegan Vs. Paleo
If you’ve hosted a dinner party recently, this may sound familiar. “Will there be a vegan option?” “Should I bring a gluten-free alternative?” “Is this grass-fed beef?” Now more than ever, people are rethinking what they eat. Gone are the
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The Fifth Element of Cookery
Water, Wood, Fire, and Earth have been described as the four classical elements of nature, the essential phases of matter. In the East they added Metal. In India or Classical Greece it was Ether. The elements vary, but throughout history
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