World Food and Wine
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Tour the world in the most delicious way
We'll look through world food and wine for variety. Variety is the spice of life and it is also an essential ingredient to stay a happy and motivated cook.
We have a new interest in cooking and where our food comes from as we've learnt that healthy eating goes necessarily through our stove. After a while, home we find cooking dull.
"We are for simple cooking. We don't have the time." You'll say.
It is wrong to keep home cooking a boring activity. We need garnishes and side dishes to enjoy a meal. We want fantasy with shape and color. unexpected flavors and aromas. Things that surprise our taste buds.
GOOD COOKING
Let's find how other people cook and eat in close and far away places.
Oriental cooking is just delicious.
There is good cooking waiting to be discovered and seeing how people around the world cook every day will lead us to the simplest, best tasting food. Meals that are different, fun to cook, and will be hits back home.
Food
Let's travel the world to find good food, wholesome, healthy, flavorful food. There is a world of appetizing foods to discover. Let's find how it is food can cease to be simply fuel for life and became a pleasure more satisfying than you ever thought possible to find on a plate, a pleasure opening a door to other countries, to other cultures, to other people with a different way of life.
We are filling our food pantry with articles about world food, international cuisine, and also food and cooking tips. Starting with the basic international pantry, a selection of the basic pantry items millions of home cooks all over the world store; the ones they use every day to prepare simple, straightforward dishes, very easy to replicate at home. We have started to add a few staples, like cheese or pasta.
Wine
For some, good wine goes along good food. Wine enhances the food experience and it is fundamental to good eating. Wine certainly shares with us some good moments in life and it is not unhealthy to have moderate amounts with food. Let's find the right wine and discover why wine inspires such a passionate interest.
Our wine cellar stores full-bodied, flavorful articles covering all what you need to know about wine. Find the key features of a perfect wine cellar or what kind of wine cellar equipment you should consider.
Bringing the world to you
When not able to physically travel to a place, we can always replicate their food. Shop local and cook international as ingredients thought exotic not so long ago sit now at almost every grocery store.
Planning and cooking an Italian dinner for six is as easy as planning and cooking anything else. Doing a British, Danish or Russian dinner, designing a romantic dinner for two, Paris style, a Caribbean party for twenty, a Hawaiian luau for six couples; an Indonesian banquet for ten, exciting. When we have the information about the cooking of other countries at our fingertips, it's easy to add exciting new tastes to our home cooking.
We'll discover that Chinese stir-frying is quick cooking and fall in love with the simplicity of Japanese dishes. We'll try easy going Spanish tapas and Middle Eastern spices. We can always fall back on fajitas, burgers, clam chowder and chicken pot pie when we feel home sick.
Home cooking is now full of exciting possibilities. Let's do some food travel and bring the world to you.
Food and wine
Food and wine go well together. The right food enhances the flavors in the wine and wine is the perfect complement for food. Discover the misteries of wine and food proper pairing and impress your friends at your next gathering with your knowledge about pairing wine and cheese. Though pasta goes well with almost every wine, there are a few rules to follow if you want to match pasta and your favorite wines.
Food and Wine in Europe
Food in Europe is always an important matter, and gastronomy taken seriously. Let’s sniff around, from borscht to colcannon, with gravad lax and spanakopita on the side, before give into the one pastime that Europeans hold so dear: eating.
While cooking is an art and food has always been more than food in France, within Europe, food in Spain is a quick glance to Spain, the new food wonderland, and what is behind the feast of color and taste food has become in the Spanish table. Foods in Italy looks at populars food there and some Italian recipes; just to know what to expect if you travel there or to be able to plan your own Italian meal. Find the best of British food and learn about their traditions.
Wines in Europe are a tradition; winemaking, an art. Here is where you will find the countries with highest productions and the ones more used to drink wine, where wine is a cultural symbol. Once inside Europe, wines in Italy gives a very brief description of most porpular Italian wines, to help you choose your Italian wine in a restaurant or for a home Italian dinner. Does your love for wine point to Tuscany? Consider staying in a working winery, combine learning and travel with a wine course, or take a simple wine tour in Tuscany.
Wine in Spain is ancient history. Spain is one of the oldest wine producer countries in Europe, yet Spain is the origin of some of the most modern wines in the European landscape, without forgetting the homely wines that don't make it to the great catalogs but help you to have a memorable experience with Spanish tapas.
Food and Wine in America
Food in America is is a mouthwatering journey across North, Central, and South America where you will discover, and find out how to prepare, fabulous foods from every region. The trip begins with food in Mexico and food in USA, including their wonderful food traditions.
Wine in America, a cup brimming with wine trivia and fascinating facts about the wine growing countries in the American continent. Consider a tour of the wine in USA, discovering first the California wine regions. Chile wine production has grown and its wines find their way to all other countries.
Food and Wine in Africa
Start with food in Africa, a quick glance to African cuisine and cooking techniques, before looking into particular African recipes starting with food in Ethiopia.
Follow with a glimpse into the wine industry as it is today in this vast continent in wine in Africa.
Food and Wine in Asia
There is an interest about food in Asia and many recipes from the Middle East and oriental cooking are becoming part of every home cook repertoire. From Eastern Asia, Chinese cuisine is probably the best known in Western world, but there is a thing or two to discover about it.
Wine did not have the importance in Asia that it always enjoyed in the Western world. It is true that the climate in most of Asia does not encorage wine production but there are some promising areas. China, Japan and India are developing an interest in wine and there are some domestic wine industries growing gradually, and there is the Middle East region with wines of merit. We can talk about wine in Asia.
Food and Wine in Oceania
Oceania and food visits the traditions and taste of that continent. Australia and New Zealand have incorporated their local ingredients to world food. Oceania is part of the new world of wine. Making use of the latest technological advances in winery and vineyards and with stable climates and extensive space they have proved that the new world can compete with the European regions in producing top-quality wines. There's a story to tell about Oceania and wine.
Wherever you are in World Food and Wine
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And when you think you are done, remember there are other ways to learn about food and wine, and meet fellow food and wine lovers. Discover the fabulous food and wine related information hidden in books, magazines, and other web sites, look at further resources and get your souvenirs.
