Cooking Essay

This love for baking started when I came to live in college dorms with a kitchen because at home I was not able to bake any time for myself or family. I was not able to all the time because my mom did not allow us to bake. She thought we would burn ourselves. In college, stress is a factor so for me I found baking. Baking relaxes me the process of doing the batter then seeing the batter sponge up with a delicious smell. It is a small break from everything that is happening. It helps release some…

Jamie Oliver is a great chef. Even greater than being a chef he is a spokesperson for better food for school children. He is also known as The Naked Chef, coming from his own show called The Naked Chef. Jamie has gone all around the world to spread the word and just….cook. Jamie grew up in the restaurant atmosphere, his parents owned their own pub called, “The Cricketers”. When Jamie was 16 he went to college at Westminster Catering College. Then, Jamie went to France and learned all…

Hawaii has everything: beautiful beaches, amazing sunsets, world-class hospitality, and the list goes on. Unfortunately, the one thing you can’t find in Hawaii is authentic Japanese miso soup unless you know the one place to look for this old-world delicacy. Ma'ona Musubi, located in the heart of downtown Honolulu, HI is a breakfast and lunch restaurant specializing in a variety of Japanese dishes, but perhaps, the most sought-after creation is the miso soup. Ma'ona Musubi’s owner/chef insists…

seasonings consist of adobo and sofrito, which the sofrito is also made from scratch. Sofito consist of onions, tomatoes, garlic, little peppers, cilantro, recao (which looks like cilantro), vinegar, and olive oil. Drain the meat after it is done cooking, and let it cool down. My grandmother use to grow her own herbs, and I buy mine at the supermarket. Her sofrito was always better than mine, but she taught me well. FYI you can also buy sofrito in the…

It can be easily said that bread is to a French, what rice is to a Chinese and potato is to a German. Bread constitutes the most important part of a Frenchmen’s everyday food, considering this fact it can be easily said that the French are very particular about their breads (Durand, Rao, & Monin, 2007). They usually prefer a bread that is fresh, and baked just before consuming it. They also do consider the colour of bread also as in integral part in terms of the breads being consumed, some…

stoichiometric process is relevant both in and out side of a science lab, for example; cooking. If you were scarce of a specific ingredient that is needed to complete your task you can apply stoichiometry to figure out how much of every other ingredient you would need to make sure nothing is more or less than the limited ingredient. Stoichiometry is the mathematical portion of chemistry that can be used in circumstances such as cooking and more day to day tasks. The study of ratios between two…

I made a symbolic eleven-recipe cookbook for my final project. Each recipe references a text through its ingredients, color scheme, or cooking techniques. Some of the dishes were family recipes, and others were adapted from cooking websites to improve the taste and symbolism. The more complicated desserts are highly symbolic, but others are more lighthearted. The book’s title, “Eat, Drink, and Be Merry,” references the oft-repeated phrase “Eat, drink, and be merry for tomorrow we die.” This is a…

If there is one thing that I have always been good at, it is cooking. I don't remember when I started to cook but I noticed my abilities as a young chef around the age of seven. I would sit with my mom and watch cooking shows and help her in the kitchen. These interactions with the culinary world greatly influenced me to want to pursue a career in the culinary arts. I remember being home one night. I was 11 or 12 years old and my parents had left to go see a movie. My brother was upstairs…

1. Introduction 1.1 A brief history of dessert Dessert is the final course of the meal that should complement previous courses. Dessert is defined by most dictionaries as a sweet food eaten after a meal. The term "dessert" can apply to many foods, such as cakes, tarts, cookies, biscuits, gelatines, pastries, ice creams, pies, puddings, custards, and sweet soups. Fruit is also commonly found in dessert courses because of its naturally occurring sweetness. Some cultures sweeten foods that are…

The world we live in is like a constant bicycle wheel that never stops. We as, human beings are always on the go and has not come to recognize what our world can offer, right in our backyards. We live in a fast paced society, that we don 't usually have time to cook. Therefore, we are slowly killing our own ability to know how to cook. Thereby as consumers, we buy food that are convenient for us . In fact, we don 't really sit down and actually enjoy our food but instead eat food as if we are in…