Cornucopia, a microwave like device – using technology similar to a 3-D printer – may one day do away with the need to cook meals… by instead literally “printing out” plates of food.
The early concept for Cornucopia is a machine that looks like a microwave, but with canisters of ingredients on top and [...]

Hong Kong chef Alvin Leung has succeed in doing what many other chefs have (probably) strived to, though failed to achieve, by integrating yeast extract spread vegemite into a top-end restaurant dish:
Leung dissected the pie floater and reconstructed it as performance culinary art, then worked his way through 49 different Vegemite recipes before stumbling [...]

From Agnolotti to Ziti tagliat, pasta assumes over 150 shapes and designs.
Pasta is architecture designed for the taste buds. Every single shape is a brick, different in form, consistency and color, to create an extraordinary construction, both physical and mental, a true expression of taste…

This is why I didn’t consider becoming a chef… if boiling an egg (perfectly) is so complicated that the process requires a several-thousand word article to explore the subject, how was I ever going to manage a more complicated task such as… making a cup of tea?
Nearly every basic cookbook offers conflicting techniques on [...]

If you’re prepared to use kettles and irons that are to be found in most hotel suites – for purposes other than which they were designed – you also could cook up a storm in your own room as British comedian George Egg demonstrates.

It probably pays to read the operating manual of any new appliance you buy, even if you are already familiar with apparently easy to use devices such as, say, a toaster. The problem though is what to do if the manual contains ambiguous or conflicting instructions as seems to be the case sometimes…
You might [...]

I’ve seen about five seconds of the reality TV cooking show (yes, you read that right) “Masterchef” that nearly everyone in Australia has been raving about for the last few weeks, so if you’re likewise in the dark as to what it’s all about, this Firstdog graphic should fill you in.

FoodPairing: look up what foods, or cooking ingredients, work together well, and also create new taste sensations by mixing and matching different food types.
And just in time for lunch…

Lard has come full circle and is now back in the good books of (most) nutritionists. Not the supermarket variety lard mind you – it’s been hydrogenated – but leaf lard, which comes “from the fat around the kidneys of a hog, preferably a heritage hog”.
Lard has clearly won the health debate. Shortening, the synthetic [...]

The Australian state of Queensland is laying claim as the home of lamington cakes, and given the delicious chocolate sponge cake was named after Lady Lamington, who lived at Government House in Brisbane, this seems somewhat logical.
Lady Lamington, the mistress of Government House in Brisbane, found herself in just such a predicament in 1900, when [...]