Wednesday, September 1, 2010
The new era for culinary
Who would have imagined the the cuisine had wounded so far. In the nex blog I will present new toys for the kitchen. In recent years scientists have explored new ways to increse productivity and produce new foods such as eggs with omega 3 and not colesteron. With so many invention the chef are so happy the new science is called Molecular Gastronomy. MG seeks to investigate and explain the chemical reasons behind the transformation of ingredients, artistic and technical conents of culinary and gastronomic phenomena in general. In my next blog I presente the new toys like ISI, Sous-vide,ThermoMix, Hydrocolloids.
Friday, August 6, 2010
Photography
I chose to start doing photography, because it allowed me a positive outlet of creativity. I have something to look forward to everyday after work if I had the time and film. And as I would drive around, I would scope out different things and see if there was anything that would catch my eye, and pay attention to the finer details. In a faced based life, it forced me to slow down and mellow out my thought process. For the fact that I only shoot on a vintage film camera from the 1970's, a Minolta SRT 102 35mm. I love this camera with the reguards that I have to wait and see after developing my film. The instant gradification of digital cameras does not spark my attention. But taking your time and setting up your shot and you have to control all the aspects of the shot is what i was looking for, and have found with my heavy, cumbersome, outdate relic of a camera.
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Cook like a chef "second part"
Just buy dirty vegetables, in these day, fresh is more important than organic, so buy veg. that look like they are still attached to the earth. Try to buy fresh, local and in season. In tomatoes find a farmers market heirloom that feels firm, not soft, which means it full of liquid and the flavor will more concentrated. Butter is good, Too many cookbooks say butter, butter and more butter and some person have afraid to use but if you uses a real good butter is really good for you. Use only unsalted butter, with butter is possible do hundred of good sauces like hollandaise.
Cook like a chef "first part"
Cooking is messy, complex, and that is as it should be. But learning a few fundamental will make you a super chef. Number one get religion, you need to understand is that your kitchen is a workshop, and all good workshops have a standard operating procedure. Before you start any meal, you need to gather all the ingredients the dish requires. this is "mise en place" is french what is everything in its place. Number two Slow Down, cook everything at once. Prepare to stand helplessly by when it is time to plate dinner, as veg. grow cold next to room temp. starch and aggressively steaming meat. While meat rest, its internal temp evens out and it gains about five degrees.
Bad news for psychologists
Long time a go one scientific who has long said are what you eat. I recent discovered that certain foods had a natural chemical that held the brain. This chemical name is "flavonoids" this acts on the brain allowing the relation of cells called "sinagsis". This chemical is possible find in eight regular food you can eat every day. In the list you have dark chocolate, skim milk, oatmeal, salmon, walnuts, sunflower seeds, spinach and blueberries. Sorry for the psychologists meantime you eat these products while the stress OUT.
New weapon and delisious
The Indian has a new weapon of mass destruction. In 2007 the Guinness world record was accept what the "bhut jolokia" or ghost chili the most spiciest chili in the world. The military personal have a new weapon against bad guys. This chili has 1,000,000 Scoville unit vs the normal jalapeƱo has 5,000 is a lot different. The Indian scientific developed a hang grenade or smoke grenade layers leave a person disoriented and temporary blind. This grenade is posssible uses has a disper the grow and much more. Is a realy good idea because this is difinitely goin a effective nontoxic weapon all the symptoms are temporaly.
Marginalization
From the beginning of times humans began organizing themselves according to their families or common attributes. This is marginalozation since they left other others without food because they were not part of the group. Nowadays, it happens the same way. People are divided into groups according to race, culture, social disposition, and appearence. This creates separation and many times the separation have created hostile environments such as wars. As part of the Hispanic community in the United states, I have experienced a little discrimination based on my race and cultural and, perhaps, ignorance play a big role because many think that "were are all alike". There are Hispanic people that come to the US and do very bad things. This creates a bad reputation for the rest of us.
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