Jerk Chicken being Grilled

A Wonderful World of Barbecue

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Story and Photos by Rick Browne, Ph.B. Editor’s Note: Rick is now Director of Product Reviews for the BBQ website AmazingRibs.com. It is the largest BBQ-related website in the world, with over 1,000 pages of information on the science and art of BBQ, (heavy on the science and technical aspects), and last year received 34,000,000 impressions. Their Pitmasters Club has currently 15,000 paid …

How Restaurants Lose Customers

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July 30, 2009 I went to one of my favorite Albuquerque restaurants, St. Clair Winery & Bistro, for lunch and because of what happened, and how I was treated, I will never return.  Before I explain the details, let me say that I am a huge supporter of local restaurants.  For example, I have eaten lunch at The Quarters on …

Maurizio & Luisa (Ca’ d’Alfieri)

Fiery Adventures at Ca’ d’Alfieri, Italy

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Fiery Adventures at Ca’ d’Alfieri, Italy Story & photos by Harald Zoschke If you think of spicy Italy, most likely Calabria will come to your mind. But even in Northern Italy, a hotbed of heat can be found, thanks to a fiery couple that changed its career in the mid ’90s. Italian Maurizio Bovi and his German friend Harald Zoschke …

New Water Soluble Chile Extract: HydroCap™

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Sonoma Organics, a division of Seco Spice Ltd. of  Berino, New Mexico, has announced the release of a new product to stabilize the heat levels of fiery foods products.  Until now, manufacturers have had to depend on imported, oil-based oleoresins, notes chemist Marlin Bensinger, who invented the process for making a water soluble chile extract.  The advantage of HydroCap™ is …

A World of Curries: Caribbean Curries

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by Dave DeWitt Recipes: Curried Pholourie Pumpkin- Curry Soup Jamaican Curry Goat Pork Colombo from Martinique Curried Chicken and Rotis Trinidadian Curried Lobster    Although curries in some form appear in the cuisines of most of the Caribbean, they are particularly prevalent in the countries where the East Indian population is the greatest: Jamaica, Martinique, and Trinidad and Tobago (T&T). …