Once you have arrived at the idea stage it is great to begin a business catering plan. Be meticulous when you detail how the catering business will be operated, managed and capitalized. The following checklist can help you organize your ideas into the beginning of a business catering plan.
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.
Sure, he calls Seattle home now, but 28-year-old chef Brian Cartenuto -- whose menu has been wowing 'em here in the Emerald City at Cantinetta -- is getting plenty of good press in his hometown, as I read in this week's dispatch from Florida's Emerald Coast. Turns out Brian's doing the James Beard mambo, blowing out of Seattle next week to cook at the James Beard House, as so many terrific Seattle chefs have done before him.
Have trouble with knowing when your steaks are done - especially if you've got different cuts and different guest requests to keep track of? These mini steak thermometers will help you through your summer bbq's.
Steak Thermometers | $22 at Smith & Hawken
A federal judge is weighing whether to relax pumping limits that are in place to protect salmon as they migrate through California's freshwater estuary. Water districts representing some of the country's largest farms are asking for a temporary restraining order that would suspend through mid-June protections designed to safeguard the winter run of Chinook salmon as they breed and swim out to the Pacific Ocean. Water districts are seeking the order so they can boost irrigation supplies for the state's farmers.
It's February, so you know what that means: they (and you know who they are) want me to think "romance in the air." So for this month's restaurant roundup, I followed the perfume of berbere, rose water and saffron, cardamom, fenugreek and mint, garlic, ginger and galangal. I ate with my hands, with a swath of bread and with a lust for life lived elsewhere -- if only for an evening. Here's where I landed.