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.
Eat like your grandma: Why you should skip the kale salad
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.
All 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.
German government agency bans meat from official functions
The government says it’s for environmental reasons, but critics are complaining of violation of personal freedom.
02/21/2017
This is long overdue.
US sell-by-date labelling is about to change... in a big way
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.
Gusta Cooking Studio
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 in Italy to be slashed by revolutionary new law
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.
Gusta Cooking Studio
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!
Japan has made cola-flavored chips, and they’re not bad.
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.
How a 10-Year-Old Scored the Toughest Sushi Reservation on Earth
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."
A life with and for coffee