Gusta Haus of Sugar Art

03/22/2017

On the average day (let's call it Wednesday), perhaps you should feel nostalgic (or not) and eat what your ancestors used to eat.

Take a pass on the wheatgrass, too. The healthiest food you can eat may be your family’s ancestral diet.

02/26/2017

Making the top of crème brûlée? Turbinado. Sprinkling sugar crunch over your cookies? Demerara. Strong raw sugar flavour for cooking? Muscovado. This is one of the better short articles online about raw sugar.

Learn all about sugar in Sweet!: From Agave to Turbinado, Home Baking with Every Kind of Natural Sugar and Sweetener by Mani Niall, including recipes for Raspberry Sorbet Cream; Smoky Pumpkin Seed Brittle; Semolina-Citrus Turbinados.

02/24/2017

Our next generations are going to pay for the real costs of our momentary gratification. The current way of life shall always be criticised to be improved.

The government says it’s for environmental reasons, but critics are complaining of violation of personal freedom.

02/21/2017

This is long overdue.

Most US consumers have no idea about the true motive behind the sell-by-date on their food labels says the Washington Post in an article published today...

01/10/2017

Welcome to my more or less egocentric page. If you are looking for Dessert Supplies or Cooking Classes alike, please visit Gusta Cooking Studio.

Here, instead, I bring you more of our industry and life insights that may be boring or extremely interesting depending on what excites you. Tasteful nonetheless, as this is Gusta Haus.

Baking, dessert making, cake decorating, culinary techniques and more! Learn hands-on from chefs in our state-of-the-art kitchen.

08/09/2016

Reading this on my way back from Las Vegas serves as a perfect alarm.

Food waste is to be tackled by new measures in a law passed by the Italian Senate that will make it easier for businesses and farmers to donate excess...

08/01/2016

Did you know... 1 teaspoon of white granulated sugar weights almost-precisely 4 grams? Next time you can easily convert recipes from volume to weight and get accurate results!

07/16/2016

Link to the new Cooking Studio. Culinary & dessert classes. Hard-to-find ingredients and kitchen tools. Sentence fragments. Too much excitement.

Baking, dessert making, cake decorating, culinary techniques and more! Learn hands-on from chefs in our state-of-the-art kitchen.

07/12/2016

Many months passed. Here I am again, this time with a new venture -- Gusta Cooking Studio --

01/04/2016

Cola flavour is so available now that Calbee makes a chip flavour using it! Always lots of fun exploring Japanese snacks!

We put Japan's newest taste innovation to the test.

11/21/2015

It is all the emotion and respect that flows in the story. So touched.

It’s hard enough to get a reservation at Tokyo’s world-famous Sukiyabashi Jiro, let alone persuade the three-Michelin–starred sushi restaurant to break its own rules. But one traveler says that’s what happened this past October when she and her husband brought their 10-year-old son for dinner at the…

10/05/2015

"[Edmund Mayr’s] wish for the future is that people become more courageous and speak out when they are served bad coffee for an expensive price."