Archive for the 'Culinary Oddities' Category

The Portfolio Diet: The Solution to Heart Disease

What if there was a combination of foods that were as effective at lowering LDL cholesterol as prescription drugs? Would it be worth adding some new foods to what you eat each day to avoid medication?
This is what the latest in a series of research studies Dr. Jenkins from the University of Toronto shows. Studies [...]

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Monday, June 8th, 2009

Soto Kudus (Kudus Chicken Soup)

Kudus is a city in Central Java, Indonesia. It has been famous for its clove cigarettes (known as kretek ) product for long time.
Soto is also known as Indonesian dishes. There are many kind of soto vary according to the city of they came from. For example there are Soto Betawi, Soto Madiun, Soto Sulung, [...]

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Monday, June 8th, 2009

Bandeng Presto (High Pressure Cooked Smoked Milkfish)

Pressure cooking was first introduced by French Physicist, Denis Papin. He invented Steam Digester to reduce the time needed to cook foods. Basically what the steamer do is tighten the air pressure inside it to increase the boiling point of water, therefore the food would be cooked faster.
Bandeng Presto uses high pressure cooking technique that [...]

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Thursday, May 28th, 2009