Celebrity chefs enter our living room, mobile phones, and kitchens through their cooking shows, kitchen and food products, and cookbooks. This is the third post of a three-part series where we share what we’ve learned…
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What We Learned about Cooking from Bobby Flay
This is the second post of a three-part series where we share what we’ve learned from watching cooking shows. In this post, chef Bobby Flay is highlighted. Incredibly talented, Bobby has an impressively diverse and successful…
29 things we learned from Ina Garten
Ina, Bobby, and Ree are names that we use regularly in our conversations as if they were our friends. In some ways they are. We studied these celebrity chefs on the Food Network for years…
A Healthy Hummingbird Cake Recipe to Hum About
If you have a moment of panic because you haven’t yet found the perfect layer cake recipe that is healthy and delicious, no worries! You’ve come to the right spot. We love to bake healthy…
The Way to Engage Others: The Power of the Question Mark
“Use the question mark to generate reader curiosity and narrative energy”- Peter Roy Clark How easy is that? How bad could that be? How good is that? What couldn’t be better? Who wouldn’t want that?…
Spoons, Forks, Knives, Chopsticks- What Your Silverware Says About You
What you choose to eat with can give you clues about your personality and who you are. There is a children’s book called Spoon with anthropomorphized utensils. Little Spoon isn’t happy and wants to be…
The History of Burritos and a Chicken Bean Burrito Recipe
If the number of American Tex-Mex fast casual restaurants— Chipotle, Moe’s Southwest Grill, Qdoba, Taco Bell, Del Taco, Baja Fresh, and more— are any indication, burritos are a national favorite and for good reason—a flour…
Food in mid-18th century France: Disney’s Beauty & the Beast
Disney released Beauty and the Beast, a faithful yet fresh live-action re-telling of its 1991 animated classic. Cutting across generations, the film sets an all-time highest-grossing March opening in the U.S., with a $170 million…
10 Ways to Update Your Favorite Recipe
It can get boring to cook and eat the same dish everyday. Sure, it’s great to have favorites and a much-requested recipe. Tuesday night tacos stuffed with ground meat, tomatoes, lettuce, and guacamole, anyone? But,…
Increase Your Literacy and Multiliteracy Through Food
Literacy and its newer, more complex cousin multiliteracy are terms that are used in the teaching world as ways to talk about what skills are needed to communicate. But these concepts are useful to those…