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Top 7 Ways to Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with Food
March 16, 2012
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Le Cordon Bleu
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Portland
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Somehow everyone is Irish on St. Patrick’s Day. It seems memories of a distant ancestor from Ireland begin to surface this month each year, hence, it’s time to celebrate! We all welcome an occasion to party and in the United States, St. Patrick’s Day has become just that. The tradition, however, began with the annual feasting day celebrated in Ireland for the patron saints. This year, celebrate however you like…as long as it involves eating, drinking and being merry. You’ll be amazed by the many ways you can celebrate with food and drink and even more importantly, by the lack of need for any special culinary techniques to enjoy them!
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Devilishly Delicious Heavenly Hash
March 16, 2012
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Le Cordon Bleu
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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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Corned-Beef-and-Cabbage-A-St-Patricks-Day-Delight
March 15, 2012
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Le Cordon Bleu
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Around the middle of March when the land begins to shake free from the grasp of winter, both the Irish and the Irish at heart turn their thoughts to the celebration of St. Patrick’s Day. Children bring their school-made artwork of shamrocks home to hang on the refrigerator. Cities and towns plan their St. Patrick’s parades. And everyone, everywhere, starts the wearin’ o’ the green.
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Three Great Mashed Potato Recipes for St. Patrick’s Day
March 15, 2012
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Le Cordon Bleu
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Las Vegas
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Cooking in Las Vegas is a rich man’s game. Posh resorts and their expensive restaurants push the envelopes of modern culinary traditions. In contrast, the food traditions of Ireland are centered on the lowly potato. Today, the potato is often not given enough prominence or forgotten altogether on class syllabi in modern culinary schools.
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7 Traditional Irish Meals
March 13, 2012
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Le Cordon Bleu
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St. Louis
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The Irish are a very hearty people that have a long and rich history of both food and drink. The cold climate of Ireland combined with its terrible famine have produced some incredibly soul-warming foods that take “comfort food” to a whole new level. While most traditional Irish foods are pretty simple and require few ingredients, given the proper atmosphere they will rival any 5-star restaurant dish in the world. Below are 7 of the most popular traditional Irish meals that you can learn to make at St. Louis culinary schools.
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What’s Boxty? Irish Food Traditions
March 13, 2012
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Le Cordon Bleu
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Atlanta
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For most of its history, food from the British Isles has been seen as more of a dare than as a cuisine. Of those foods, the cuisine of Ireland has often been regarded as the greatest offender of taste and good sense. What the world’s gourmands and gastronomes don’t realize, however, is that there are many wonderful dishes in Irish cuisine that would please even the most finicky eaters. Even the pickiest Georgia culinary snobs could learn to love the downhome goodness of Irish cooking.
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5 Unusual Foods that You Can Dye Green
March 12, 2012
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Le Cordon Bleu
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Scottsdale
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Food coloring has been around for a very long time and the most common uses seem to be dying eggs on Easter, beer on St. Patty’s Day or using it to change the color of frosting for cupcakes and other baked goods. At Arizona culinary schools food coloring is often used to change the appearance of certain foods. Food coloring does not change the taste of food and you can really add it to anything you want. Getting creative and changing the color of a very standard food is a great way to experiment with the culinary arts. If you do try this however, you may want to have a regular version of the dish on hand as some people just cannot get over the different color. Below is a list of 5 unusual foods that you can die green any time of the year.
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6 Wines that You can Pair with Your Favorite Irish Meals
March 12, 2012
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Le Cordon Bleu
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Seattle
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Trying to find the perfect wine for any meal can be one of the great challenges of the culinary arts. Trying to pair a fine wine with Irish foods that are traditionally very hearty and include a lot of soup and bread can be downright impossible. We have found 6 wine parings for some very hearty and traditional Irish meals.
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Using Food to Get and Keep Your Guests Talking
March 8, 2012
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Le Cordon Bleu
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Sacramento
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You’ve planned your menu, purchased the wine and invited the guests, your work should be done but one of the hardest things about having a successful party is to get your guest talking and keep them talking, for what is a party without socialization. Sometimes the easiest thing to do is let the food get the talking for you. Whether you play a food based game or wow them with a cheese tasting here are just a few ways that you can use your menu to entertain your guests and get them to open up with one another.
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How to Spot a Good Irish Whiskey
March 7, 2012
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Le Cordon Bleu
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Portland
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As with any distilled beverage, whiskey comes in many different styles and picking out a good Irish whiskey can be pretty complicated. There are a few basic things that you can judge whiskey by, of course most of them involve the best part about finding a good whiskey: actually tasting it.
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