Will your caterer "custom-make" your cake based on your individual preferences? Will you be choosing from pre-determined styles? Would you like fresh flowers or confectionery flowers adorning your cake? Important considerations for your cake.
Suppose you have been chosen to organize a corporate event. Unfortunately, all you can think is of that old adage, ‘Never mix business with pleasure’. The following tips will assist you in your mixing of business and pleasure with enjoyable results.
If you were hoping to wrap your hands around a sandwich today at Grand Central Bakery's Pioneer Square location, or planned to pick up one of their new U-Bake pizza crusts and attempt to grill pizza outdoors tonight, may I suggest heading to Eastlake instead? Things should be crazy at the Pioneer Square original, seeing as Obama's scheduled for a Grand Central visit with local small-business owners there just before noon.
How to know whether a wine is age-worthy? That depends on a lot of factors, including the grape varietal, the winemaker and the conditions under which it is aged. One sure way to find out if a wine has aged well is to drink it. And recent tastings confirm that even Washington whites can hold up.
More than a half-billion eggs have been recalled in the nationwide investigation of a salmonella outbreak that Friday expanded to include a second Iowa farm. The outbreak has already sickened more than 1,000 people and the toll of illnesses is expected to increase.
I got a kick out of this story about chefs whose creative use of everyday supermarket ingredients offers good ideas for me and my kitchen. (Altoids to add a curiously strong mint flavor to sauces? Love it! And what if I used the cinnamon Altoids? That might be great melted into the custard for my homemade cinnamon-basil ice cream.)