Recipe Essays

  • Recipe for Stroganoff

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    Recipe for Stroganoff This simple, yet elegant meal can serve a family of five, mainly because at least four of them will refuse to eat it. The leftovers can be kept in the refrigerator for a long time, though no one I know has ever actually eaten them except the dog, so I can't speak to how well they keep. The ingredients are as follows: one frozen loaf of bread dough; one bag of the noodles that are thick and curly; one onion; one six pack of beer; one and a half pounds of frozen ground

  • A Recipe for Revolution

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    A Recipe for Revolution Today’s world subjects an individual to many different socio-religious-political influences. Out of those individuals come idealized leaders reinforcing their influences. In the increasing complexity of such memes and their interactions clarity and an understanding of evolutionary paths that is favored by nature-one that results in better survival- has become paramount. An assumption can boldly be made that violent or non violent constituents in the practice of such ideals

  • Reflective Essay About Cooking

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    order to become a well-rounded person who is sensitive to the unique qualities of others. One way to develop this appreciation is to try to learn about other cultures around the world” (Solis). My goal for my Personal Project was to cook all the recipes in an international cookbook, learn about the different cuisines of each country, and ultimately become more culturally aware. I wanted to create a cookbook with notes written in from my experience with the dish and tips for the next person who creates

  • Analysis Of Cooking With Betty Crocker

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    while others dread it. Both types will probably at least once in their life cook a meal by following a recipe. The issue is deciding where to keep all of the recipes. Cookbooks solve the problem by keeping an immense number of recipes in one location. Betty Crocker’s sixth edition cookbook is an excellent example of an easy to use cookbook for health conscious people. The cookbook has numerous recipes to make a variety of dishes. To begin with, people browsing any type of book notice its pictures first

  • Love the Film, Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers

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    or cooking shows. The way food is prepared and the passion that many of the chefs put into their delicious creations. Many of the recipes are part of the person’s culture and they continue to cook these recipes to commemorate an important part of their history. A good example of this is the film Garlic Is As Good As Ten Mothers, garlic being the center of every recipe but it’s of great importance to the different cultures that represented in this film. There are different cultures represented but

  • How to make gumbo

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    Can you name just one famous southern Cajun recipe? Well I can and it’s my favorite Cajun meal. Its basic name is gumbo, but there are many gumbo recipes so I’ll be specific. My favorite is “New Chicken and Shrimp Gumbo” and it’s delicious. I got the recipe from a great cookbook. It’s called “Chef Paul Prudhomme’s Fork In The Road”. Would you like to learn how to make it? If so keep reading and follow along? Now first things first. You need to go to the store for a few ingredients, because I’m sure

  • Overview of Celestine Eustis's Creole in Old Cooking Days

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    cookbook yet, nonetheless this is how author Celestine Eustis chooses to start her collection of recipes. In 1836, Celestine Eustis was born in Paris, to her mother who was from a prominent French-speaking Creole family. In 1904, when Eustis was in her late sixties, she wrote Creole in Old Cooking Days (On History and Food). Cooking in Old Creole Days shows the diversity of Creole culture with its variety of recipes and songs as well as other things that are included in this guide to Creole cooking even

  • Logging the Rainforest

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    Logging the Rainforest A recipe for local and global disaster Industrial logging is the main cause of forest loss throughout the tropics. It is the starting point of a process leading to the forests' final destruction and substitution by agricultural crops, cattle raising or monoculture tree plantations. These are well known facts supported by more than sufficient evidence. Even more importantly, industrial logging destroys the livelihoods of forest and forest-dependent peoples who, deprived

  • Curry Chicken and Yellow Rice

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    my own. The word cu= rry, comes from the English word “kari”, which means sauce. Even so, being that it is an ingre= dient mainly used in India, it does not come as a powder (which is provided to us= in American supermarkets, what I used for my recipe), but rather is achieved by combining a variety of spices, for example, cardamom, poppy seed, nutmeg, coriander, and ginger. By mix= ing these spices, along with approximately 20 others, a “masalas” or combination is made, which varies from one area

  • Summary of Like Water for Chocolate

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    fictional novel that takes place in Mexico at the turn of the century, during the Mexican Revolution. The novel covers a time span of around thirty five years and is organized in monthly instalments with each month introduced by a traditional Spanish recipe. Most of the novel takes place on a Mexican ranch and is about a family with a very traditional mother. Within this novel, food and love intertwine to form a tale of forbidden romance. Like Water for Chocolate is a romantic love story about the

  • Indian Cuisne

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    used in Indian cooking. There are many commercial brands are available, but keen cooks can grind and blend their own. This ensures freshness and means you have control over the quality and quantities of the individual spices. There is no official recipe for Garam Masala, but many Indian families have their own variety. Common ingerdients are Nutmeg, Cumin seeds, toasted Black peppercorns, Whole cloves, Cinnamon sticks, Black or green cardamom. Cumin Cumin from Western Asia, where it has been

  • The Importance of Clarity in Writing

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    The Importance of Clarity in Writing To write a good paper is there a magical recipe to follow? If there is you will not find it in these two books; Williams' Style: Toward Clarity and Grace and Strunk and White's The Elements of Style. What you will find is the elements that should be present to have a successful paper. Of all the styles mention though, one seems to stick out more then the others. This is the element of Clarity. What is clarity, you may be asking? It is simply the process

  • Investigate the Effect of Temperature on Cell Membranes and Membrane Structure

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    Investigate the Effect of Temperature on Cell Membranes and Membrane Structure If you read a recipe for cooked beetroot it will usually recommend that you don’t remove the outer skin of the beetroot and don’t cut off al the stalk and root if you want to avoid getting lots of red dye in the cooking water. Beetroot contains red pigments called betalains, located within the cell vacuole. Normally the pigments can’t pass through membranes but they leak out when the beetroot is cooked. Aim

  • Dota: Manta Style Strategy On Tinker

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    aggressive to get kills- Tinker with another nuker can kill many heroes from full health! After getting some basic items and Boots of Speed, it's time for perhaps the most difficult part of the build: saving 2200 gold to buy the Boots of Travel recipe. At this point, I strongly recommend buying a set of Observer Wards. I cannot stress enough how helpful Observer Wards are. Apart from the standard significant benefits of avoiding ganks (one gank avoided is worth about two or three sets of Observer

  • Work and Happiness in Death of a Salesman and Remains of the Day

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    things like,"Happiness is…" and then going on to compare it to a kiss from your child or a puppy dog. If achieving happiness was really that trite then no one would have much trouble achieving happiness. Happiness at work is really a more complexed recipe where many personal ingredients are needed to make it turn out as you hoped. The ingredients or factors that determine happiness on the job are universal in that all workers need a combina... ... middle of paper ... ...f money could bring happiness

  • Essay On Why I Became An Art Institute

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    When I was a little girl, I remember going over to my grandmother’s house, and as soon as I walked in I heard the sizzling in the pans and smelled the herbs throughout the house. I would always study the way she would use her techniques that her mother taught her. She would let me help her make anything no matter how much of a mess I would cause or if I poured too much of something. For example, when I helped her make a cake for my mother’s birthday she gave me wonderful tips for the perfect layer

  • Family Cooking Essay

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    for us. Because my sister goes to private school without school buses and my step father’s busy work schedule. I’ve been eating my mom’s cooking since I move in with them five years ago from China. For this assignment, I interviewed her about the recipe of the Yangzhou fried rice. Most Chinese people won’t consider fried rice as any delicacy; the ingredients are extremely simple and common. My mom said, “In China, most people don’t eat fired rice, because they consider its peasant food”. Chinese

  • The Success of KFC

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    biggest factor in forcing Harland Sanders ("The Colonel") to start experimenting with various mix of spices and herbs, trying to get the best formula for his recipe. (If we still remember the Asian Economic Crash 1997-2002, one of the last remaining business that kept going during the recession was the food industry). By 1939, the recipe was already perfected and the Colonel had expanded his restaurant to accomodate 142 seats. This was a fairy large restaurant, the size is equivalent to several

  • Cooking Made Simple

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    cookbooks with recipes for one to decipher. Today, the articles and books that explain how to cook are minimal. Not everyone can compete with Julia Child in cooking gourmet food with the menu devised in our minds without referring to cookbooks, but many of us can learn to cook effectively. A step-by-step process should be followed to learn how to cook successfully. 1. Find a Recipe. First, search for a recipe you are excited about making; it helps when there are pictures along with the recipe because

  • Hidden Meaning in Laura Esquivel’s Like Water for Chocolate

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    contemporary novel based on romance, recipes and home remedies. Very little criticism has been done on the novel. Of the few essays that are written on this work, the majority of them consist of feminist critique. This novel would be most easily approached from a feminist view because of the intricate relationships between women. However, relationships between women are only one of the many elements touched upon in the novel. Like Water for Chocolate is a novel that uses recipes as a crypt for many important