Learning to write recipe titles is a skill that every food blogger and chef need to know how to do. But, it’s not necessarily the easiest. Naming your recipe “banana muffin” results in over 20…
Monthly Archives For October 2016
How to Write Catchy Headlines for Food Blog Posts
Even when you write great content and have delicious recipes, you need catchy titles and headlines to get your blog read. How to write a title that your readers want to read takes practice. In…
Lemon Honey Pasta with Carrots and Almonds
Google might be loaded with pasta recipes, but finding simple, fresh ones can be a little bit of a beach-combing. Our favorite ways to find new recipes are to sample foods at the grocery stores…
Developments in Kitchen Design
Walk into a newly constructed house and you’ll likely find the kitchen to be a main focus. Often described as the ‘heart’ and ‘haven,’ the kitchen is now architecturally designed to be the center of…
Gold and Silver Angel Food Cake
Angel food cake comes with its formula (a dozen of egg whites, superfine sugar, and cake flour) with leavening only coming from the air whipped into the egg whites and batter and a little help…
What We Can Learn From Recipe Titles
The title of a recipe gives the first impression of the dish and the author. Located prominently, recipe titles are printed in special, large type, memorable to readers as units because they are official labels…
Who Gets the Last Piece of Cake? What Dinner Table Manners Tell About You
The Marshalls always request for small slices. You can ask them if they would like just a little more, or if they are sure they are full, and they always express with certainty, “I really…
Three 1950s Cheese Appetizers: “Starters to Mellow the Mood”
Looking to the past for recipe ideas is fun and interesting. Here we go to the 1950s—a decade where housewives worked to perfect entertaining with elegance. The cocktail hour became an important part of dinner…
The Manly Meatloaf: Reflecting on Gender Roles in Cookbooks for Men
Walk into a bookstore, browse Amazon’s cookbook category listings, and you’ll find various genres of cookbooks. There are cookbooks for kids, for vegetarians, for couples, for one, for beginners, and even for dogs! Look closer,…
Food Memories and Madeleines
Food is more than just nutrients. Food conjures up memories and reveals who we are—and are not. What we eat is a medium for personal recollection and collective identity. Marcel Proust, the great French author,…