What do you do when you have a job that you need to have done and you need to have it done quickly and you need to have it done right? I’ll tell you what you do…you go to Jenny Johnston, Houston’s 2015 first quarter Employee of the Quarter. And I guarantee you, that job…
So after learning the basics of wine-tasting, you should have some ideas as to how to choose a wine that you really love to drink. Now it’s time to buy the right glasses—because yes, glassware is deemed the most important tool in the enjoyment of drinking wine. It boosts the appeal of the wine you…
Kombucha, kefir water, shrubs…drinks made with an assist from bacteria have, of late, been seen as an opportunity for flavor expansion, and although not by any means a new concept, they are grabbing hold as quality ingredients are being used to create exciting crafted flavors that help take a slightly “blah” drink to new levels…
If you are a coffee lover, then you can’t miss the number one coffee of 2014, the Ironman Camilina Geisha. The beans are grown in western Panama, and roasted by Klatch Coffee in Los Angeles. But that isn’t what makes it great. What makes it great is that it is “beautifully structured and almost impossibly…
The final phase in evaluating wine is to assess its taste and finish. Some of the things you will be looking for are whether or not the wine is balanced and harmonious, its complexity, and how the wine finishes after you are done tasting it. If you understand how taste buds work, you will better…
Is it time for you to research equipment and smallwares for your restaurant? With NAFEM just a week away, now may be a great time to start the purchasing preparation process, by researching, by studying, by asking questions, and by carefully looking over what is available on the market. Foodservice Equipment and Supplies magazine mentions, in…
Chinese New Year is a time of parades and festivals, a Nian Ye Fan (reunion dinner), a time of feasting and celebrating, a communal hot pot to signify togetherness, cleaning the house and “sweeping” away the bad of the previous year in order to start fresh, and gathering families to honor deities and ancestors. Although…
A wine’s smell or overall aroma is also called the “nose” of the wine, and this “nose” is the second stage in wine tasting, after evaluating by sight. The nose is a fascinating organ, capable of differentiating between thousands of unique scents. This makes it a great tool in evaluating wine, because it is able…
Mardi Gras is French for “Fat Tuesday” and refers to the carnival celebrations leading up to Ash Wednesday, the day the fasting season of Lent begins. It is celebrated throughout the world, but in the United States the party tends to focus in New Orleans, where for a period of two weeks you can find…
In 1926 Carter G. Woodson, a Harvard-trained historian, conceived of and announced Negro History Week, carefully chosen to coincide with the birthdays of Frederick Douglass—an escaped slave and leader of the abolitionist movement—and Abraham Lincoln, the President of the United States of America responsible for the Emancipation Proclamation which made freeing the slaves an explicit…