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Tips for better Burgers | Take Your Burger from Boring to Best
September 19, 2012
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Emily Murray
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Los Angeles
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As residents of Southern California, we don’t have to worry about the end of grilling season. As long as it’s not one of those 3 or 4 days a year that it actually rains here, grilling is a year-round activity. But for some reason, it always seems more important on those big three summer holidays, Memorial Day, Independence Day, and Labor Day.
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A Guide to Preserving Tomatoes
August 24, 2012
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Le Cordon Bleu
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Los Angeles
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As summer starts to wind down, backyard gardens all across the country seem to go into tomato overdrive. Gardeners everywhere have more tomatoes than they can eat or give away. Not even a cooking school in Los Angeles could figure out what to do with all of those tomatoes. Fortunately, there is an alternative to adding the excess to the compost heap: preservation.
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Pick-Your-Own-Take-Your-Family-to-the-Farm
August 9, 2012
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Le Cordon Bleu
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Los Angeles
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You may not have the time or skill to raise your own crops in a backyard garden, but that doesn’t mean that you can’t enjoy the satisfactions and taste of a delicious harvest. Nearly every state has a number of farms where you can pick your own produce and pay for it by the bushel or by the pound. There are even pick-your-own farms in ultra-urban Southern California. These farms are helping Angelinos create a new Los Angeles culinary tradition.
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The Top 10 Best Uses for Nuts in Cooking and Baking
July 19, 2012
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Le Cordon Bleu
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Los Angeles
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Pressed for time but still make it a point to prepare delicious and healthy meals and snacks? Be sure you have enough nuts and fruits for healthy snacking and at a low budget too! In fact, nuts and fruits are a staple of many snacks, desserts and even meals. Rarely is one ingredient as versatile as the nut and if you enroll in cooking classes you will likely be able to rattle of even more uses for this ingredient without a second thought!
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Five Fabulous Foods for the Fourth
July 2, 2012
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Le Cordon Bleu
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Los Angeles
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July is not only time for celebrating Independence Day but also for picnics, vacations, family reunions, and block parties. Each is a time for good friends and good food. There’s just something special about these outdoor get-togethers that brings back nostalgic thoughts of summers gone by. You can contribute your own memories start some new Los Angeles culinary traditions by cooking up one of these delicious and fun summertime foods for this year’s Fourth of July picnic.
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How to Make Shrimp Scampi
June 22, 2012
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Le Cordon Bleu
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Los Angeles
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Shrimp scampi is one of those sophisticated dishes that are available at most upscale restaurants. Surely, this means that it is incredibly difficult for anyone who isn’t a culinary school graduate. Actually, it’s not that hard at all. In fact, the hardest part may be finding fresh enough shrimp.
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The Country’s Five Best Burgers
June 11, 2012
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Le Cordon Bleu
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Los Angeles
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No topic is sure to inspire more fierce debate and disagreement than who makes the best burger. It is one of the most iconic American meals after all. No matter where you grew up, you know that your local burger joint makes the best one in the country. No one in the food services industry will confuse a burger with haute cuisine, but it is definitely all-American. Whether it’s an upscale Vegas burger bar or a Midwestern drive-in with roller skating servers, great burgers are everywhere. We’ve put together our list of five of the best.
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5 Ways to Give Back with Food
May 23, 2012
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Le Cordon Bleu
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Los Angeles
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Being involved in the culinary industry is sometimes an embarrassment of riches. Whether we are working professionals, educators, or students of Los Angeles cooking schools, we are constantly surrounded by the best that our vocation has to offer: food, and often a lot of it.
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10 Kitchen Gadgets Mom Will Love
May 2, 2012
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Le Cordon Bleu
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Los Angeles
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Show mom you think of her year-round with these thoughtful, time-saving and useful kitchen gadgets for Mother’s Day that will bring her years and years of creative “foodie” bliss. She doesn’t need to have gone to baking school to be able to create the culinary masterpieces she will be churning out in no time thanks to these many thoughtful cooking and baking gifts.
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The Great Ice Cream/Frozen Custard Debate
April 24, 2012
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Le Cordon Bleu
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Los Angeles
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What’s your persuasion? Ice cream or frozen custard? In many parts of the country that is a hotly debated topic. Many purists side with ice cream for its fluffy and airy sweetness. Others side with the dense and rich creaminess of frozen custard. Those who attend culinary schools in Los Angeles, have an opportunity to learn about both, their origins and how to make them. Here's a little insight.
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