Interview with Sheila Gray on Channel 19
Radio Appearance by Colonel De
Thursday, May 10, 2012
7:45am
Topic: The Colonel’s Digital Cookbook
Channel 19
CityBeat’s Best of Cincinnati Voting
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Colonel’s Digital Cookbook
This is the new “Cookbook on a stick”. It is believed to be the very first cookbook on a memory stick. Both Mac and Windows format is on the stick. Simply copy your computer type folder onto the hard drive of your computer and you are ready to start cooking. The Colonel has included well over 400 recipes and there is no limit to the number of your own recipes that you can enter. It takes about 4 minutes to enter a recipe. It them becomes part of the search engine that is built into the cookbook.
There is also an encyclopedia of over 100 spices. The encyclopedia tells you where the spices are from, interesting historic anecdotes, how they are used, and if there are substitutes and what those substitutes are.
Lunch on the Land September 18, 2011
Twilight in The Gardens at Beautiful and Historic Baker Hunt in Covington, KY
September 10, 2011
7-10pm in The Gardens
($25/person in Advance or $30/person at the door, day of event)
Here is a full list of participants: Read more >>
A Note From Colonel De
To our customers,
Our products are heavily influenced by weather and geo-political events as they occur around the globe. Because of multiple catastrophic weather events in the region where cloves, nutmeg, mace, and peppercorns are grown, their cost is doubling. If you don’t see the effect in some stores, it is because they have a big supply of these products at pre-event prices. We carry as thin an inventory as we can and still meet your needs, therefore you will probably see this effect here before you see it in other locations, but you will see it everywhere in time. It is my hope that in the near future that this situation will turn around and we will see some of these prices start to fall. I just wanted to alert you and give you a heads up on this situation. I will always strive to get you the best quality products at the best prices that I can find. Thank you for your continued patronage.
The Colonel
De Stewart
If you ever find yourself in a “pinch”, we’ve created a handy Herb and Spice Substitution Chart. Click here to download the chart.
Onion
Allium cepa
Peeling away the mystery of an onion
Yes, the onion is an herb. While there are some people that can’t eat onions for health reasons, and in the case of the Jain religion of India won’t eat onions for religious reasons, in most kitchens of the world it is considered to be almost a staple. It is unknown where the onion originated, but a good guess would be central Asia. It is now grown worldwide. There are those who would argue that the onion is a vegetable and a good case can be made for this assertion. But, it is such an important part of so many recipes and so many cuisines worldwide, used for its pungency, texture, and flavor I can’t help but include it in any list I make of herbs and spices.
Onions and their cousin garlic were well known and well liked in Ancient Egypt and were part of the diet of the builders of the Great Pyramids. The Old Testament mentions these two cousins especially in the context of the Israelites in Egypt. There are over 30 recipes that were found on three clay tablets from Mesopotamia that date to about 1600 BC, most of these recipes call for the use of onions. These clay tablets are housed at Yale University. In ancient India onions were very unpopular, people who ate them had to live outside of the towns. They were called “food for low people” and “evil smelling”.
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April 117, 9a.m. to 6p.m.
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6282 Cin-Day Road, 45044
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