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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...

When searching for something altogether new and unusual to put up the grill, buffalo steak includes a familiar flavor that's just unusual enough to create itself memorable.Nearly the same as beef it includes a comforting familiarity.However, in addition, it includes a certain a thing that people notice and can anticipate having again.Which is why buffalo steak is now a popular option to beef.Buffalo steak is normally referred to as having a sweeter flavor than beef, giving it an enjoyably distinctive taste...

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the old rule of paring burgandy or merlot wine with red meat and white wine with poultry and fish.Unfortunately this outdated rule doesn't consider the complexity of today's multi-ethnic, highly textured or spiced foods because they relate with the wide variety of wines on the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...

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...

It's time for farmers markets.They're popping up all around the nation.They can vary from a real farmers market with farm fresh produce locally grown and sold by the farmer to more of an arts and crafts show.When shopping at a farmers market that the consumer has to be wary of anyone selling vegetables or fruit which aren't locally grown or are out of season.It's becoming common practice for some entrepreneurs to buy the same produce that's available in the grocery and market it at the farmers market place...

There are three basic types of Asian tea; Green, Black and Oolong.All three come from the same tea plant Camelia sinensis.The differences between the teas result from the way the tea leaves are plucked and processed.Although there are 3 basic kinds of tea, there are more than 3,000 varieties to pick from.Despite their title, herbal teas aren't tea at all since they don't come from the tea plant, but from herb and spice plants...