Posts by Tuscan Chef

Prosecco can be anything, good or bad, Asti usually is mass produced but there are good ones. Champagne is in general always good (sorry to admit this, I might be banned from Italy!!!)

Well it's the same, but not all the powder are the same.However here in Italy we have only CACAO (cocoa does not exist as a word) so if there was a difference we would have had two kinds of CACAO powder. The difference is on the...

Table (cave salt) is refined, sea salt is usually not refined. Sea sald therefore adds more microelement to your diet.

You can find nitrates naturally, but they are preservatives that are bad for you. Cholesterol is natural, but excess is bad.Gludammic acid is the base of sugar destruction chain. the Krebs cycle. It is a base for aminoacids...

The chicken you are eating was an egg 2 months earlier. There is no disesase that could be found in that short time even if they start, the wide use of antibiotics (banned here in Europe) makes things worse as now the infections are from...

Old recipe from Tuscany uses chicken necks and fill it. Still they can be ordered at a few restaruants. I found one link herehttp://www.tuscany-villas.it/blog/2007/food/collo-ripienoThis is the best I found so far.

Hydrogen peroxide causes mutations (genetic changes) and may have a cancer risk..It is not used as preservative and it is a shame that many people get it now through toothpaste.The small size and the similarity with water makes H2O2 easy...

No it won't kill salmonella. Only if on the surface of the egg.Add salt to the water and you will get a little better result

I hadn't check this post for a while. So where we stand about the cheese with seafood?.It seems that the defense of the pros is relativism (what is good for one can be bad for another but no one coult tell). The one against are in a...

Well, I agree that the nice thing about cooking is experiment and try to find a new version or a total new way of cooking a certain food. But everyone knows that these brings in high percentage to a disaster, that small point of...