Orsola C.

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On Sugar, Wine-N-Lies and How to Cook Like Donna Hay

Orsola C. posted an article on - Feb 10, 2012, 6:31 am
Chef's Valentine, special notes on sugar an enduring love affair, wine's three biggest lies, a Thai soup ideal for the worst winter chills, food philosophy from Australia, a new guidebook that...
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Links for 2012-02-09 [Digg]

Orsola C. posted an article on - Feb 10, 2012, 3:00 am
This $55,000 Cupcake Had Better Be Really Delicious Sure, you could put an engagement ring in a ring box like some kind of normal boring person, but why would you do that...
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Posh Burgers, Goat Meat, a Butcher in Paris and Mindful Eating

Orsola C. posted an article on - Feb 8, 2012, 3:10 pm
Proof of traceability and quality, a crown to celebrity food providers. Burger-mania, the ultimate mystery meat, mindful eating, homemade beer vinegar and its 40-year-old vinegar starter, a...
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Links for 2012-02-07 [Digg]

Orsola C. posted an article on - Feb 8, 2012, 3:00 am
Pasta by Design: Exploring the Geometric Shapes of Noodles From George L. Legendre, an ambitious design dissection on the beloved carb staple, exploring the intricate, beautiful shapes of 90 pasta types.
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Links for 2012-02-06 [Digg]

Orsola C. posted an article on - Feb 7, 2012, 3:00 am
Abolish the Food Industry If public health is a legitimate reason to curb corporations' advertising to kids, why limit bans to cigarettes, booze, and toys in happy meals, and not include, say, all unhealthy food?
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#IdentitaMilano, Chocolate n Wine, Produce You've Never Eaten...

Orsola C. posted an article on - Feb 6, 2012, 9:10 am
De Gustibus: Special Milan Chef Congress "Identita' Golose" ~ Three days, three halls, the chefs (with many young toques), a lot to talk about and to taste of course. Travel bites, soups, unusual...
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Links for 2012-02-03 [Digg]

Orsola C. posted an article on - Feb 4, 2012, 3:00 am
Gastro Nordic: Produce, Flavors, Practice. Sweden's newest gastronomic phenomenon, ubiquitous chicken breast, time to peel, slice, squeeze, experiment with recipe comix Apple's Greatness, and Its Shame - BusinessWeek It’s time to reconsider the notion that companies should maximiz...
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Gastro Nordic: Produce, Flavors, Practice. [Stringy, Sticky, Slimy ...]

Orsola C. posted an article on - Feb 3, 2012, 7:03 am
Sweden's newest gastronomic phenomenon, ubiquitous chicken breast, time to peel, slice, squeeze, experiment with recipe comix, a rather unusual cookbook, the strange food of others, vegetarian...
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Smoking Signals, Intriguing Swedish, Kurdistan, Peru ...

Orsola C. posted an article on - Jan 30, 2012, 12:35 pm
"The dish looked so pure ...", it's the Swedish charm. Professional chefs on using up scraps. Tasting a legendary piece of a** in Kurdistan. Deceptively simple from Lima, Peru. Japan extreme eats,...
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Links for 2012-01-27 [Digg]

Orsola C. posted an article on - Jan 28, 2012, 3:00 am
Pizza Madness: Pizza In A Jar | Slice Pizza Blog Slice is a weblog about America's favorite crusty, saucy, cheesy meal—pizza. We're Big Apple–based, with a special affinity for New York–style pies, but we're wild about pizza in general...
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Pickled Vegetables, Progressive Cooking and The Year of The Dragon.

Orsola C. posted an article on - Jan 27, 2012, 4:16 pm
How to satisfy the desire for crunch, glitterati of the New York food scene, welcome the year of the dragon and its spicy delights, some booze diary notes, tales on eating seasonal and local, concern...
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Paris - Lollipops at the Ritz [Flickr]

Orsola C. posted an article on - Jan 26, 2012, 11:00 am
ockstyle posted a photo: “Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy.” ~Eskimo Proverb Tea Time at the Rits Paris - French pastry @FoodMedita...
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Chefs Wisdom, 9 Ways with Wine-n-Food, Olive Oil and Its Virginity Issues!

Orsola C. posted an article on - Jan 25, 2012, 11:12 am
Going for a vegan lifestyle? "En garde" for the cheating ingredient! Dreaming of owning a restaurant? Few tips on how to start a successful one and Q&A with the pioneer of conceptual cooking....
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Recipe Writing, Urban Gardening and Hot Food Trends

Orsola C. posted an article on - Jan 23, 2012, 11:41 am
Cookbooks and some tricks of the trade, the healthy side of fermented food, urban gardening, herbs and bacon, is it trendy or it's chronic? Old becoming the latest best thing? Offal! And who is using...
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Links for 2012-01-22 [Digg]

Orsola C. posted an article on - Jan 23, 2012, 3:00 am
Seasonal Eating and Lucky Dumplings. Prepare for Chinese New Year! lucky dumplings and bacon the collective obsession...
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Seasonal Eating and Lucky Dumplings. Prepare for Chinese New Year!

Orsola C. posted an article on - Jan 21, 2012, 12:37 pm
Season eating and test kitchens, the thrill of food fights, the healthy ingredient with an industrial heritage, lucky dumplings and bacon the collective obsession. Want to bring some avant-garde...
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Links for 2012-01-20 [Digg]

Orsola C. posted an article on - Jan 21, 2012, 3:00 am
Food fight! There's a giddy, back-of-the-bus delight in breaking the rules around food. Have you ever been part of a food fight? A Sharper Mind, Middle Age and Beyond How to subtract 10 years from your brain’s age? Get a college degree.
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Foodies Way: Capers, Coffee and The Usual Table, Please!

Orsola C. posted an article on - Jan 19, 2012, 12:09 pm
Growing up in a small village. A little thing that makes a difference: capers. Whey, a valuable raw material. Loosing the head for a cup of coffee? Old habits die hard! And don't forget, savvy cooks...
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Guilty Pleasures: Pecking Duck, Roasted Peppers and Celebrity Bites.

Orsola C. posted an article on - Jan 19, 2012, 9:56 am
The power of the delicious starch-and-cream combos, how to glaze and dry your own duck, easy roasted peppers, the story behind the images of "nurturing from the earth” series and what is going to be...
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Links for 2012-01-18 [Digg]

Orsola C. posted an article on - Jan 19, 2012, 3:00 am
Support for Internet Bill Wanes as Protests Spread Protests on Wednesday quickly cut into support for two Internet piracy bills as Senator Marco Rubio, Republican of Florida, said he would no longer back the legislation he co-sponsored.
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Links for 2012-01-16 [Digg]

Orsola C. posted an article on - Jan 17, 2012, 3:00 am
Coming Soon in a Bathtub! Wine, Decanter, Bubbles Did you know that once upon a time bubbles in wine were considered a fault?
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Links for 2012-01-15 [Digg]

Orsola C. posted an article on - Jan 16, 2012, 3:00 am
Cooking, Tasting, Fine Dining n the Chefs A culinary walk on a famous promenade in the South of France. Chef talk about nose-to-tail cooking and tasting menus.
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Coming Soon in a Bathtub! Wine, Decanter, Bubbles

Orsola C. posted an article on - Jan 16, 2012, 2:28 am

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Cooking, Tasting, Fine Dining n the Chefs

Orsola C. posted an article on - Jan 13, 2012, 2:18 pm
A culinary walk on a famous promenade in the South of France. Chef talk about nose-to-tail cooking and tasting menus. Meat and antibiotics, salmon and bagels, Brussels sprouts, some culinary forecast...
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Intimate Conversations, Badvertising, Adventurous Eaters and Fresh Trends

Orsola C. posted an article on - Jan 12, 2012, 10:28 am
Food for thought on intimate meals: How Couples Keep Mealtimes Happy? Do you have a favorite part of favorite foods? What about some Omega3 to boost fertility? In the meantime we can enjoy some...
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Links for 2012-01-09 [Digg]

Orsola C. posted an article on - Jan 10, 2012, 3:00 am
2012 Culinary Forecasts, With A Pinch of Medieval Condiments What happened to banh mi, fried chicken, hamburger, pizza/vegetable, are they still trendy? Let's do not forget the Nordic food, think lichen, birch, ...
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2012 Culinary Forecasts, With A Pinch of Medieval Condiments

Orsola C. posted an article on - Jan 9, 2012, 2:00 pm
What happened to banh mi, fried chicken, hamburger, pizza/vegetable, are they still trendy? Let's do not forget the Nordic food, think lichen, birch, wood sorrel, sea buckthorn ... Add couple of...
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Links for 2012-01-08 [Digg]

Orsola C. posted an article on - Jan 9, 2012, 3:00 am
Restaurants’ Used Fryer Oil Attracting Thieves Restaurants used to pay to get rid of it, but with the oil being used to make biofuel, thieves are siphoning it off before paying contractors can get to it.
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Chenin Blanc, Cocktails, Cookies n Cakes

Orsola C. posted an article on - Dec 11, 2011, 6:00 am

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Cocktails, Horchata, Beer, Wine, ... Life In Style!

Orsola C. posted an article on - Nov 29, 2011, 10:29 am

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Edible Fantasies, Food Rules Illustrated, Asian Style Thanksgiving, Fishy Biz and ...

Orsola C. posted an article on - Nov 3, 2011, 5:02 pm
Design ~ For Better or Wurst “Talk about sausages for a style magazine based in New York? Tremendous!” The designer of a sausage-shaped glass sculpture for the Design and Living issue, indulges...
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Soups, Pies and Burgers, Quintessential Comfort Food! (All Food Tastes Good in Fall)

Orsola C. posted an article on - Nov 3, 2011, 3:16 pm
Kitchen Window ~ Fish Stews: Comfort Without The Work "All food tastes good in fall" Nearly every culinary tradition has its own version, from the chowders of New England to the...
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Gone Cooking in Abruzzo

Orsola C. posted an article on - Oct 24, 2011, 6:44 pm
Travel bite ~ Handmade "Spaghetti alla Chitarra" by zio Francesco, a Food Meditations moment ... Traveling across the central Italian region hunting for local culinary treasures, ..." Travel...
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Diwali, Artisanal Olive Oils, Moussaka, Tapas, National Dishes, ...

Orsola C. posted an article on - Oct 21, 2011, 4:48 pm
Get ready for the feast ~ Diwali: A festival for the taste buds "a wonderfully chaotic event filled with family, friends, prayers, loads of fireworks and ... a huge amount of feasting" The...
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Cornish Pasties, Rice, Tasmanian Delights, Italian Head2Tail, Faces & ...

Orsola C. posted an article on - Oct 19, 2011, 6:14 pm
Cornwall: The cream of protected pasties "award-winning genuine Cornish pasties in the lovely Cornish lobster fishing port of Padstow" Jim Eagles discovers the tasty secrets of Cornwall's most...
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Anchovy, Caviar Pizza, Pickling Brine, Winter Squash and the Sense of Smell

Orsola C. posted an article on - Oct 17, 2011, 4:11 am
Dig into comfort ~ Party Hearty: One-Pot Dishes for Easy Entertaining "Pot-au-Feu: The layers of flavor in this exalted French family meal" Place these one-pot wonders on the table and let your...
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Bray, The Hinds Head [dtls] [Flickr]

Orsola C. posted an article on - Oct 16, 2011, 11:54 am
ockstyle posted a photo: Details of a window at The Hinds Head, Bray, UK. Owner and Chef: Heston Blumenthal. @FoodMeditations moment!
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Food Trends: Old Cookbooks, Everyday Dolci, Draw and Cook, ...

Orsola C. posted an article on - Oct 14, 2011, 8:16 am
Embrace autumn ~ October seasonal food "Embraces autumn with a big bear hug. Make the most of mackerel, game, shellfish, walnuts and watercress" Vegetables and Mushrooms, Fruit and Nuts, Meat,...
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Italian Beer, Champagne, Balsamic Notes and mmm...

Orsola C. posted an article on - Oct 13, 2011, 8:27 am
Chocolate ~ A Delectable Kaleidoscope of Candy Bars "A word of caution, though, on getting lost in the image" A round of applause for the good people at Pop Chart Labs, who have come up with a...
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Paella, Indian Spices and Why has French Food Conquered the World?

Orsola C. posted an article on - Oct 13, 2011, 4:23 am
The first theory ~ What's in a name? "Why has French food conquered the world?" Italian food tastes better, Japanese is more refined, Spanish is bolder, British has more character and ... Read...
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Contacts

Orsola C. posted an article on - Oct 11, 2011, 7:26 am
As result of an excessive numbers of spam mails, the address info@foodmeditation.net has been suspended. For all communications please use the following address:...
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Incidental Diets, Chef n Writer, Hard-Boiled Fiction and Pie's Life

Orsola C. posted an article on - Oct 10, 2011, 10:23 am
The way to a perfect body ~ The Incidental Diet: How to Lose Weight Without Really Trying "Losing weight is hard" A new study on the healthful effects of eating at home is only the latest to...
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Austronesians, USSR, GDR, 1971 Travels Map and Travel Apps

Orsola C. posted an article on - Oct 9, 2011, 12:40 pm
History ~ Tribal culture survives in Taiwan "Girls from the Bunun tribe in Taitung (left). Tattoos indicate beauty and achievement" Taiwan is believed to be where the languages and cultures of...
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