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When you go out to eat, what type of cuisine do you usually end up ordering? We all have our number one favorite> However, there are a few of us that like to cook, but would instead enjoy our favorite foods at a restaurant. If you too, like to cook, it is almost a sure thing that, you also love to go out to eat on occasion, to taste your favorite cuisine. It may surprise you, that restaurants make an excellent place to find inspiration for your own cooking as well.

Favorite Restaurants

Do you have a regular place that you prefer to have dinner at? Your own restaurant experiences can be applied to find new ways to prepare food that you love. First thing to do is to make a list of the restaurants you go to. Then, try to remember what they have, that you always come back for. Maybe it is the method that they cook the food that is appealing. Or, is it because of the elegant atmosphere? Once you have pondered upon these issues, then you can start to use them to improve your personal cooking and the comfort level of your eating area.

Take A Close Look At The Menu

We each have a personal cooking style, that enhances our eating. If you take a good look at the restaurant menu, you can get an idea of the kind of ingredients and seasonings that the chef prefers. Then, you can jot down the special items that look interesting and very delicious. Afterwards, you can try out some of these new recipes, seasonings or whatever idea came from the notes that you wrote down.

For example, say you ordered an orange duck dish that was so yummy, that you got a second helping. While you were looking over the menu, you zoomed in on the orange duck, made a mental note that is was roasted over an open fire and marinated in a sweet and sour orange sauce. The method of cooking and the kind of sauce sounded delicious to you. After your orange duck arrived, you were delighted that it also smelled as good as it sounded on the menu. This is the time to write down some notes, like how the duck was roasted, how long did it marinate in the sauce and that maybe only fresh oranges and honey went into the sauce.

Go To Chef Classes

For a more direct approach, you can get the cooking techniques from your favorite restaurant by inquiring if the chef offers classes where you live. Then, you can practice their techniques during their classes and learn from a professional. Once you have mastered these new skills, you can apply them in your own kitchen and enjoy your favorite dishes anytime.

Try New Cuisines

So you can get to know new cuisines, it is a good idea go eat it at the restaurant first. This is a critical key to enable you to learn how the food normally tastes. By trying it at the restaurant first, you can compare against your own cooked version and be able to determine if it was cooked properly. This gives you a guide, verses trying to guess how to cook it, before having ever tasted it.

To learn more cooking ideas, you can easily find on the Internet, an ebook that discusses everything you ever wanted to know about cooking, but never dared to ask. Then, you can enhance your restaurant and cooking experiences even more.

About the Author: Tom Straub is an accomplished editor, and webmaster of the Best Cooking Light web site, where you can read more on home cooking and a dozen other cooking topics.

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Of the number of wine types available on the market, red wine is considered as one of the best. It comes in a number of types though, but all are produced following a single process. For instance, red wine is made from black grapes, with its color drawn from the skins of the grapes.

Throughout the creation of red wine making, the selected grapes will be place on the grinder. At this point, the skins of the grapes will be shatter efficiently on the grinder. Depending on what type of wine is done and the tannin that has required, the stems do or they are utilized or are rejected on this point. After that, the grapes are put in a vat of fermentation with the skins. This procedure will take longer, taking several weeks to complete. Additional color and tannin will be extracted of the grapes when it is used on a top temperature.

The entire grapes use is sealed fermented vats when making the softest wine. The carbon dioxide that trapped in the vats on the additional value becomes sealed ferments the grapes under the difficulty that is normally a quick procedure, carrying only few days. You consider, it is based how lengthy the fermenting procedure takes between the color and tannin content of the wine. But when the fermenting procedure takes a long moment, then the wine becomes usual more taste and color hold.

So as to remaining loaded with the grapes it will pass across a printing, having shattered to create a wine of tannic. Occasionally, tannic wine is added with more formation to the wine mixtures. It will take long one for the second fermentation, although it puts emphasis on the value and the taste of the wine.

When the tanning wine is being crushed, the enduring size of the grapes will go through a press. Tannic wine is added more formation and added with an open run wine on the way to combine. Then it will move to the barrels or tanks for a second fermentation from the press and vat wine. It will take long for the second fermentation even though the taste from the wine brings out the excellence.

A least of a year in the barrels will spend all types of fine red wine. Other red wine will spend a few more years in the barrels and spend a lot more time. Red wine is also fine tuned with egg whites, which the yeast and some solids found in the wine will suspend earlier than the wine is racked, filtered, and finally bottled. When it is bottled, the wine will be transport and advertise on the market. Several of wines stock up a period of time in the bottle before it is presented to the market.

About the Author: Dirk is the owner of The Wine Site , At this site you can find a wealth of information about wines, its types, as well as the art of wine tasting. You also find a lot of ideas about wine racks and other great wine gifts.

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I would like to draw your attention to my new online tea shop: Apollo Tea. I don't want to write a long praise here. See for yourselves.

Hello everybody!
Great community!
I have read everything that was posted and already I have more information then I can handle :)
I am Russian [live in America] and I drink a lot of tea, but I mainly stick to the tea I get in the Russian store, because that's what I drank my whole life. It is a Ceylon black tea.

Now I am considering opening a tea room with a Russian flare, but mainly just a hang-out spot.

Do you know of a community (LJ or otherwise) of tea- related buisiness owners? 
Is there anything I absolutely must know about this venture? What makes the most money - prepared tea sales or loose tea/cups/pots?
Any answer will be much appreciated

Olga

i saw this and thought of you...
anyone else know of and/or been to cool Tea Tastings in the LA area?

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Get the REAL buzz on tea at a Zen Zoo Tea Tasting!

Discover the REAL buzz on tea as Zen Zoo Tea Master, Janice, guides you through a custom-designed discussion about tea, where it comes from, how it is made, the origins of tea, current trends, the best way to brew tea at home, tea & health, and more. A tea plant will also be on-hand to show you exactly where tea comes from! You’ll also get to sample many different varieties of tea & nibble on snacks specifically made to be paired with tea.

To further the experience, Janice will demonstrate a Tea Cupping (similar to Wine Tasting) of high-quality, rare teas. The next Zen Zoo Tea Class is Saturday, April 28th from 3:00 – 4:00pm at Zen Zoo-Hollywood and only accommodates up to 8 tea enthusiasts, so reserve your space now at info (at) zenzootea (dot) com.  The cost of this intimate Tea Class is only $27.00 per person, which includes many high-quality teas, snacks, tea knowledge, and fun!

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Zen Zoo Tea in Hollywood is located on Vine Street at Sunset Blvd, next to Borders.  Free 1 hour parking in Sunset+Vine lot.  Metro Red Line stop (Hollywood & Vine) is only 2 blocks away.

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new tea store, B's Teas is open for business. check it out!

Has anyone had tea by Ineeka? Opinions?
http://www.ineeka.com/

We have a teakettle of the very plain silver variety, the type with the little red button you depress to open the spout. The spout being the only way to get water in, you know the type.

Well, our spring has run the course of it's life and no longer holds the lid down securely. Thus the whistle no longer works properly.

The problem with this for us is that the whistle is a harmonica sound. And as I have found in my searches for a replacement, that is rare. I looked at other kettles of similar design and I cannot attach our whistle to them. I've searched for other harmonica whistle (or train whistle) teapots and they're all rather expensive and I don't like the designs.

Any direction or information you lovely tea-folk can provide would be greatly appreciated.

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Hello, I'm new.

I was wondering if any of you knew of some good herbal teas. Finding good chamomile has been trickier than expected and chrysanthemum blossoms are almost impossible to find, even on www.silkroadtea.com. Any suggestions?

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