The great thing about a down economy is that inventiveness and creativity are not tied to GDP. During the Great Depression, G. Frederick Smith’s chemical company discovered and introduced the world to the first can of whipped cream. Eighty-plus years on, Smith’s invention still offers a pleasure that’s rarely matched—standing in front of the refrigerator and squeezing a blast of…
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Please Sir, May I Have S’mores?
It’s gooey, filled with sugar and fat, and is heavily promoted by one of the country’s largest chocolate manufacturers–but really, who cares? Nobody doesn’t like s’mores and campaigns have been trying for awhile to make today its national holiday. S’mores, consisting of (you know!) grilled marshmallow and chocolate between two graham crackers, have been around since the 1920s, when legend…
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Newsflash for Restaurants: Forget the Flash
As a chef and/or restaurant owner, you’ve spent countless hours working on the color scheme, the feel, the graphics, the typeface for the menu and the soundtrack of your restaurant’s website. You’ve just spent a bundle of money with that very creative agency or hipster graphic designer to build it. The result is the ultimate reflection of your philosophy and…
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Black Hills Maverick Dennis Boitnott
It’s a cold, cold afternoon in Pringle, South Dakota. The calendar says May, but that’s irrelevant around here, where the semi-arid mountain temperature careens every which way–26 degrees one day, followed by a 3-day heat spell of 90+. This small town in the Black Hills appears quiet and huddled against the cold winds, but in a nearby kitchen, Dennis Boitnott…
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Marshall Bennett and the Chill Grille
Marshall Bennett loves baseball and Bobby Flay. See this talented 14-year-old chef in action as he treats his neighbors to a fusion barbecue dinner each summer.
“Use a F**kin Whisk, Wouldja?” or Why Chefs Cuss
If you’ve ever been really busy in a kitchen trying to juggle dishes with cooking times ticking away in your head as yet another four top comes in, then this is nothing but a rhetorical subhead.