Tag: foods

Feng shui has a great impact on the food we consume.Feng shui, the food we eat and ourselves are interrelated and affect each other.Chi and our life balance are highly influenced by food, starting on how it was harvested and produced, going through how we cook it and the environment and mood in which we consume it.Chi or positive energy flows in food as well as in everything else, and its quality depends a whole lot on how we cook it...

Food and wine pairing isn't a precise science.Lots of people follow the old rule of paring burgandy or merlot wine with red meat and white wine with poultry and fish.Unfortunately this outdated rule doesn't consider the complexity of today's multi-ethnic, highly textured or spiced foods because they relate with the wide variety of wines on the market.The new rule when pairing food and wine would be to try to achieve the proper degree of synergy and balance...

Cheeses come in a vast array of tastes, textures, and types.Gone are the days of un-wrapping a piece of American cheese putting it on white bread and calling it a meal.Today's specialty niches make it easy to serve gourmet cheeses as an appetizer, desert, or as an easy course in a bigger meal.When serving cheese never serve over 5 varieties at one time.Vary the size, shape, taste and texture of the options to add interest to the choice...

As a staple of life our need to eat has developed from a basic form of feeding our bodies with the fuel it needs, to a complicated art of presentation and taste together with our inborn need to experiment with what we see, touch, smell and of course taste.The ever-increasing divergence of meals that is currently available to us at our local shops and eating-places only help to confuse and tantalise us to new culinary experiments and delights...