Cooking Mama

that offers both delicious food and satisfactory service can be difficult and costly. Money isn’t the only thing wasted when a restaurant doesn’t live up to ones standards, but time as well. Time that could’ve been spent at a better restaurant or cooking your own food instead. These days quantity (mass amounts of fast food establishments) has taken over the demand for high quality 5 star restaurants. Therefore, after continual disappointments of fast food chains and “bar and grille” restaurants…

I gained most of my weight when I was in my mid to late 20’s. During that time I was a stay at home Mom. The most I had to do was take care of the children, run errands and do household chores. Often times, I’d get finished with my to do list, early. The challenge that I had, was keeping myself from getting bored, after I’d completed everything. I’d spend most of the time watching television with the children, or I’d have an activity planned for us to do. When I ran out of things to do,…

Blanching: Blanching is a relatively mild heat treatment performed to improve the quality of preserved or stored food products. It is used to remove trapped gases from the product, soften the product, fix product color, or inactivate enzymes. It also eliminates or reduces the numbers of relatively heat-sensitive pathogens and spoilage organisms. • Water and steam blanchers: Water and steam blanchers are the most commonly used blanchers in the food processing industry • Time and temperature…

High- Risk Nutritional Behaviors among Ten Cultures Different people have their own cultural practices to prepare and consume the foods. There are many high- risk nutritional practices among different cultures such as alcoholism, smoking, drug abuse, consumption of high fat and high sugar diet and others (Purnell, 2013). As a health care worker it is very important to understand and observe the high- risk nutritional practices of people from a various cultural background so that necessary health…

The shift in American food production and cooking has lead to an impact on our health. As a determinate of health, cooking maintains healthy, sustainable practices and regulates the products we consume. However, a steady trend shifting from home cooking to store bought food has led to a decrease in health and sustainably in our system. Mark Bittman and Michael Pollan have come to similar conclusions, we must increase our home cooking to help reform the system and our health. Overall, these…

oral), traditions, and many others. Folklore can give symbolic meaning to one’s life. In the case of Marybeth Harper, she is one who deals everyday in the practice of folklore by cooking all different types of food. Food is the burning fuel that makes her much as part of Folklore as any one else. From growing it, to cooking it, and sharing recipes, food, for Marybeth Harper, is symbolic in which the way she cares for the people she loves, family and friends; to the care she shows for others.…

Artificial Flavors: Safer, More Efficient, and More Cost Effective The use of natural and artificial flavorings in food products and the social discussion of which is safer to utilize has led to several social ramifications, especially for the food producers and the consumers. There is a general consensus of the definition of natural and artificial flavorings, with the definition focusing around how the flavoring is synthesized. Some have also utilized the term ‘food additive’ to encompass all…

Cooking oils are a fairly important ingredient in every kitchen and are used on almost daily basis. All oils do the same job, they are used in various cooking techniques and dishes, but each one of them have different quality markings which are usually given by the FDA or other food testing organisations. Cooking oils come in a wide variety such as palm oil, sunflower and olive oil. Oils are a necessity for a proper diet but only if consumed under control, as per the FDA a full grow should only…

About Us Bread has been the staple food of many civilizations from time immemorial, and it features prominently in all the major holy books. It was their primary source of nourishment since it was an essential part of the food pyramid. The bread of the ancient civilizations was highly nutritious and fiber dense and is a source of energy and good health. Despite the huge consumption of bread as a staple and source of essential nutrients, most of the bread we have around are mostly nutritionally…

From dishwashers to servers, manager to chef, there are many different jobs in the culinary world. One of the few professions that you can start out at the bottom and work your way to the top is the culinary world. What are some culinary careers? In the culinary field there are numerous jobs a person could have, some are chef jobs, some are baking jobs, then there are the other misalliances culinary jobs. Without chefs we would never be able to go out to eat at restaurants. Some chef jobs…