Posts by Tuscan Chef

This should be an international forum but I see often "local" english slang which makes it difficult for those who are not american,Whaddayais not proper, means to an Italian, an Indian, that you are speaking only to US people....

Dear Homemadecook. Maybe I did a mistake, There are two approach to natural and safe food. One is to be sure that pesticides and "bad" elements are actually not in, the other is to make sure that they can not be in. So, a good...

I have another story and that is to use the best wine for cooking and not the wine you would not drink. We are lucky here, we can find good wine at a good price. However the results are different using cheap versus expensive wine. Maybe...

Italian buttercream ? Never heard about it here!.

In term of taste, MgCl gives bitter/sour taste and probably is the one that makes a differectiation inbetween salt and salt.If salt cristallized in (slightly) reducent environnement might have some sulfide, giving a "bad yolk"...

In Tuscany there was a tradition now completely dissappeared because not more politically correct.We would get sliced tuscan bread, dipped into wine, with a layer of sugar on it.This was considered healthy and I can still remember the...

You might have an alergy, small that make your stomac sick, that generated nausea.The difference in white wine and red wine is NOT the color of the wine. The difference is that white wine is a grape jouice fermented beverage, red wine is...

When I was at the university of Agricolture, microbiology and fermentation exam. professor asked (1989) if I could get cheese from pasteurized milk, I said yes, he said just bad cheese.

What do you think about Sauternes wine I always reccoemnd them with dry chesse to sort of complement it.There is a little conflict with the parfumes. In the sam vein Montbazzillac and Loupiac.

My advice is to start with the best wine you can afford. I was never a wine enthusiast until I tried a real good wine, not even from my region, the AMARONE.I will suggest to look for a 2004 Brunello, you can find them for $35 at this...