Cooking Essay

Last November, a week before Thanksgiving, I was listening to the morning radio talk show The Woody Show and the hosts were talking about how excited they were for the Thanksgiving feast. They all went around and shared what was their perfect meal for that day. It ranged from fried turkey, to stuffing, cornbread, green bean casserole, and towards the end the hosts argued about cranberry sauce. However, they all agreed that pumpkin pie was essential to the perfect meal. I found it very…

connoisseur of Italian cuisine. In fact, the first meal I learned to cook by myself was pasta. My grandmother taught me how to make sauce from scratch; we would start with her home-canned plum tomatoes, fresh garlic, and basil. Soon enough, I began cooking and baking all kinds of dishes with my grandmother and cousins; I would always eagerly anticipate the result because, after all, who does not love a fresh pastry! Italian food, I came to understand, comes from the heart and is best shared. One…

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Papaya leaf is one of the vegetables taken from the leaves on plants or fruit trees. Indonesians eat papaya leaves as lalab or leaf cooked in a processed way as snacks for cooking rice and also other side dishes. Uniquely papaya leaves have a different taste with the fruit that bitter. But the bitter taste does not limit many Indonesian people to like the leaves of papaya. Even if you can process it, then the leaf will not be too bitter. Behind the bitter taste, it turns out papaya leaves store…

was a necessity to have, people even traded for it (Daily Life Online). The cooking made in Egypt was done in clay jars and clay ovens over open fires (Splendors). We know about what utensils and equipment that used from finding them in tombs. There were pots and pans, whisks, and even ladles (Splendors). These practices are exactly how we cook in modern day America. We use all those utensils, ingredients, ways of cooking,…

novelist, essayist, and college professor, addresses the ethical considerations that revolve around the annual Maine Lobster Festival- eating lobster. This festival attracts tourist from all over the country to enjoy live music, beauty pageants, cooking competitions, and of course lobster (236). The easiest way to prepare lobster is boiling it in a kettle, and an important detail of this process is to keep them alive from when they are caught till when they are cooked (242). At the MLF, they…

Beef Stir Fry Ingredients: 1 pound beef flank steak, cut into thin slices 1 tablespoon potato starch or tapioca starch 1 tablespoon gluten free soy sauce 1 tablespoon water 1 teaspoon minced garlic 1/2 teaspoon onion salt 1/2 teaspoon garlic salt 1 teaspoon minced fresh ginger or 1/4 teaspoon ground dry ginger 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil 1 tablespoon unsalted butter 2 cups stewed tomatoes Fine sea salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste 2 to 3 tablespoons chopped green onions or…

According to the USDA, on any given day, 13% of Americans will have consumed pizza (Rhodes). Be it the sauce-on-the-top deep dish of Chicago, the "pizza on a cracker" from St. Louis, or, God forbid, frozen—the United States loves this Italian entrée. However, it seems that many people do not consider the science behind the creation of this popular cuisine. But I have. I worked in an Italian eatery for almost a year-and-a-half and made more pizzas than any human should be subjected to. Because of…

not receive it back do not loan money. My mother ethnic background, I learned surprisingly little regarding it, thus I cannot communicate one example other than she is white. I can only speculate that she is from the south. We ate southern fried cooking at times and she was extremely racist, however this is only speculation. I personally imagine my mother was ashamed of her…

usually consist of rice and beans, and are usually mixed with some form of protein, salads, or a farofa, also according to Mcphee each region in Brazil has their own favorite dishes because each region in Brazil has distinctive characteristics and cooking styles of regional Brazilian cuisines. For me when I first went to Brazil and tried the food there and I was amazed and surprised by how good the food actually was. I hope that you the reader can maybe one day try for your self’s with the…