Banner Year Expected For Local Salmon

Cookwork Perspective: It looks like a California King Salmon will be abundant this year.  Have you served this variety Where do you source your salmon? Banner year expected for local salmon Crazy. Incredible. Hot. At long last, they're words being used again to describe the wild salmon fishing off local shores. That's right. After four years of closures and shortened seasons, our prized California king salmon is back. "It's like it was in the good...

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James Beard Award Winners 2012

Cookwork Perspective: The James Beard Awards are the closest thing to the culinary Oscars in the United States.  Did the winners surprise you?  What award do you aspire to win?  2012 James Beard Awards: The Big Winners NEW YORK — Compost, "crack" and something called cereal milk – unlikely ingredients that have propelled Christina Tosi to the head of her culinary class. The protege and dessert maven of uber chef-of-the-moment David Chang was named rising...

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How Restaurants Can Succeed With Pinterest

Cookwork Perspective: Pinterest is the latest social media platform that's getting a lot of buzz.  Unlike Twitter that relies on words, Pinterest relies on photographs.  See what it can do for you. How restaurants can succeed with Pinterest In the fast-changing social-media world, new platform darlings appear at a regular clip. The latest, Pinterest.com, seems to be pinning competitive hopes to the wall and drawing interest from restaurant marketers. Earlier in February, Pinterest passed 10.4...

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ATTN US Chefs: Hell's Kitchen Casting Call...

FOX TV'S hit show HELL'S KITCHEN IS CASTING AGAIN. Calling all Exec chefs, Sous chefs, line cooks, bakers, grill cooks, etc.....if interested in auditioning, please email hellskitchencasting2012@gmail.com PUT " Hell's Kitchen" in sub title, include your name, Tel - where you work, where you live (city /state), age, cooking experience & any fun info about why you would be perfect for the show. Best of luck to anyone interested

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Some Articles Worth Sharing

I recently went on a cleaning binge that led me to start reading all the food related articles friends have given me over the past few months. Some of them were quick, disposable reads but others included information that I have to share. In December of 2011, the New York Times Book Review included a list of cookbooks, mostly written by chefs, that focused on home cooking. The article was long, the list is too...

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