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10 Tips for Food Preservation
August 1, 2012
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Atlanta
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If you’re lucky, patient, and good, this summer’s garden may yield a great bounty this year. You’re probably already picking some peppers and early tomatoes and cucumbers – nothing you can’t handle by making a quick salad or crudité plate for dinner. But eventually, you’ll be faced with a few bushels of produce that you will harvest faster than you can eat. That’s where preservation and canning come in.
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Board Games for Food Lovers
July 13, 2012
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Atlanta
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Most of us have fond memories of playing board games as children. Maybe you and your friends loved to play Risk or Monopoly or maybe your family had a weekly game night when you played other favorites like Clue, Life, Pictionary, or Connect Four.
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Meatless Mondays: Your Guide to Veggie-Centric Meals
July 4, 2012
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Atlanta
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Meatless Mondays began as a voluntary food rationing campaign during World Wars I and II. Along with Wheatless Wednesdays, citizens were asked to go one day a week without eating any meat and wheat products to conserve national supplies for the troops over seas. Restaurants and culinary colleges all across the country conserved hundreds of tons of meat for the war effort.
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Food Tips for Traveling with Children
June 18, 2012
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Atlanta
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Family road trips or flights across the country can create a lot of great memories. They can also be very stressful without the right planning and preparation, especially when it comes to traveling with and feeding children. Adults may be up to sampling the local cuisine and eating at odd times, but chances are that the children will ask for chicken nuggets and mac & cheese, even at that fine trendy French restaurant you’ve wanted to go to. They will also be hungry “right now”.
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Five Summertime Gardening Tips
June 7, 2012
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Atlanta
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Cooking in Georgia in the summer means fresh local produce grown in that rich, red Georgia soil. To get the freshest produce for your summer grilling and cooking in Georgia you should consider cultivating your own vegetable garden.
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Kitchen Clues: Picking the Right Pans for Your Kitchen
May 15, 2012
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Atlanta
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Whether you are just supplying your first home kitchen or you want to restock with better quality or purpose-built cookware, a little advice is always helpful. Standing at the kitchen supply store and looking at aisle after aisle of pots and pans can be overwhelming. Georgia culinary schools teach their students how to use these and many other types of cookware.
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Fatty Acids: A Guide to Omega Oils
May 8, 2012
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Atlanta
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By now we’ve all heard of the health benefits of omega oils, particularlyomega-3. Omega-3 oils, however, are only one part of the family of essential fatty acids. Essential fatty acids are defined as essential to human health, but the body can’t make them. That means that all of our fatty acids needs must come from our food sources. The good news is that you don’t need new cooking training to learn how to add essential fatty acids to your diet.
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How to Make Pimento Cheese
April 19, 2012
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Atlanta
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Much of the time we spend writing about Southern cuisines either begins or ends with “It’s a Southern thing.” Even Atlanta cooking schools will teach you a lot about our peculiar culinary traditions. We’re very proud of Southern things. They are what make us who we are. So here’s another one: pimento cheese. So all of you who didn’t grow up in the South are asking, “What in the world is pimento cheese?”
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5 Traditional Easter Foods
April 2, 2012
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Atlanta
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As the holiest day of the Christian calendar, Easter is a day of reverence and symbolism. It is the culmination of Holy Week, which begins with Palm Sunday, and a time for reflection and celebration of the holiest rights of Christian cultures. Families gather for worship and the renewal of religious and cultural traditions.
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Devilishly Delicious Heavenly Hash
March 16, 2012
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Atlanta
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If you grew up in the South, then fruit salads were a big part of every family gathering. Your grandma or one of your aunts was sure to bring one to a graduation, family reunion, Christmas party, or the weekly bridge game. One of the most popular was heavenly hash or ambrosia salad depending upon where you grew up. These familiar fruit salads may not be the staple found at a cooking school in Georgia, but we all loved them as kids.
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