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How To Make Live Curry Sushi

In this video you will learn how to make a curry sushi. You will find out that its simple and very tasty and it uses only raw foods. You can find all the ingredient at your local grocery store.
For more information go to www.crudessence.com. The website is french but will soon be available in english.

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Do You Know Your Brew?

If you haven’t seen our history of beer article I urge you to take a look at it. Now in this video watchmojo.com discovers some unusual brews that are as unique as the cultures they are produced in and created by collaboration between brewers in different countries.

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Butter or Margarine?

 
Butter has been around for millenniums, dating back to 8000-9000 B.C.! It has been referred to as cow’s milk or goat’s milk (depending on the animal) and can be made out of many different animal’s milk : cows, goats, sheep, buffalo and yaks. Through the years butter had been thought of as a barbarians food, a lower class person’s food, even though some people thought butter had some medicinal purposes. In Europe this trend was especially true in the earlier part of the middle ages (around 12th …

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Eggs: A Love Story…

          Breakfast. Just one word, and its a sentence by itself. Your probably already dreaming about the next time you’ll taste those juicy perfect textured eggs… Ok, maybe your not, but since breakfast is the most important meal of the day (and my personal favorite), I thought we could talk about one of its main ingredients, eggs. Eggs are to breakfast what hockey is to Canada, miss it one day and you’ll never forgive yourself. Because of this, we humans have found countless ways to make our …

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How to make instant noodle and beef Stir-fry

A little History..
Stir-Frying is a cooking term who brings two different fast cooking techniques: chǎo and bào. The stir-fry was introduced into the English language by Buwei Yang Chao, in her book How to Cook and Eat in Chinese, to describe the chǎo technique. The chǎo and bào both differ in the amount of heat used, and the amount of tossing done to cook the food in the wok. The wok is a round-bottom cooking vessel used to cook the stir-fry
Video recipe:

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The History of Beer

A little history..
One of the world’s oldest beverage is a four letter word known as Beer.  Almost dating back to 6000 BC in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia.  Some of the early Sumerian writings contain references to a specific type of beer.  People in that era would do prayers to the goddess Ninkasi, serving for two proposes one as a prayer as well as a method of remembering the recipe for the beer in a culture with few literate people.

The main process of beer is the fermentation of substance containing carbohydrates, rich in sugar or starch.  Most likely that beer …

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About Aspartame

In this day and age, we are all aware of the global health issues around us: from a nationwide weight gain, to supposed scandals with « health checked food items ».  Although some of the products we consume are surely safe and healthy, like most fruits and vegetables (yes there can be debate over pesticides being used during growth), we shall look at one case worth discussing.
With the ever growing popularity of energy drinks and caffeine enriched drinks on the market, and our yearning for …

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How To Make A Shawarma

What is a shawarma??
Are you talking about Shwarma? Shawerma? Shawrma? Chawerma? Gyros? Gyro? Doner Kebab? Kepap? Sandwish bil hummus?
Is it the one from Abu Dhabi? Syria? Turkey? Lebanon? Iran? Greece? Mexico? Stop with the chest-thumping cultural wars over who first invented shawarma please – it’s good, who cares, eat it….!
Shawarma (the closest English translation to the Arabic) is all of those things, and more. I like to think of shawarmas …

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Choosing Wine on a First Date

First dates are nerve wracking enough without having to worry about what wine to choose to impress your new friend!
One of the great things about wine on a date is that one bottle is a defined amount, normally about five glasses. If shared equally it is unlikely that you will fall off your chair drunk after half a bottle of wine!
However, there are some other social sins that can be committed whilst choosing wine on a date.
Getting Started
First, you need to decide whether you want white, red, rosé or sparkling …