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How to Make Chocolate Ganache : Cooking Chocolate For Ganache

Saturday, July 24th, 2010

How to cook the chocolate for ganache frosting; get expert tips on making traditional French dessert recipes in this free cooking video series.

Expert: Andrea Spano
Contact: www.notjustdesserts1.com
Bio: Andrea Spano received her training at the Culinary Arts program of the New York Restaurant School, where she graduated with honors in 1986.
Filmmaker: Paul Muller

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Cooking with Liquid Nitrogen – Ferran Adria and Harold McGee

Saturday, July 17th, 2010

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/10/10/Ferran_Adria_A_Day_at_elBulli

Chef Ferran Adria, head chef of elBulli, and Harold McGee, author of On Food and Cooking, describe how liquid nitrogen is used in restaurant kitchens to create innovative dishes like alcohol sorbets and frozen pistachio puree truffles.

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No one can get into elBulli, Ferran Adria’s restaurant on the northeast coast of Spain. But plenty of people certainly try: every year, the restaurant receives over two million requests for only 8,000 seats during the six months it is open. For the other six months, Adria, who is proud to be called the “Salvador Dali of the Kitchen,” travels, dreams, and creates at his “food laboratory” in Barcelona, called elBulli Taller, where his team includes a chemist and an industrial designer who also design plates and serving utensils to go with the food.

No wonder, as Corby wrote in The Atlantic, “making the twisty two-hour drive from Barcelona for a dinner that ends well into the wee hours has become a notch on every foodie’s belt–perhaps the notch, given the international derby to get reservations.”

For mortals who won’t be making the trip soon–or who didn’t hit the lottery last year in the German contemporary-art exhibition Documenta, which flew two people at random per day to el Bulli to experience “the exhibition” that is dinner at elBulli–Adria has given the world A Day at elBulli: An Insight into the Ideas, Methods and Creativity of Ferran Adria.

This is the first book to take a behind-the-scenes look at the restaurant whose sources and methods every ambitious chef wants to know. It shows a full working day from dawn until the last late-night guests leave, using photographs, menus, recipes and diagrams that reveal the restaurant’s preparations, food philosophy, and surroundings. — NYPL

Ferran Adria began his culinary career washing dishes at a French restaurant. In 1984, at the age of 22, Adria joined the kitchen staff of elBulli, a traditional French restaurant. Eighteen months later, he became head chef. He soon began learning techniques from culinary masters and performing culinary experiments based on the use of fresh materials. In line with Adria ‘s experimental philosophy, he closes elBulli for six months every year to travel in search of new inspiration and perfect new recipes. In response to the question–can food be art? Adria has said, “That’s for other people to decide. Cooking is cooking. And if it exists alongside art, that’s wonderful.”

Harold McGee writes about the science of food and cooking. Twenty years after its first publication, the revised On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen was named best food reference of 2004 by the IACP and the James Beard Foundation. In 2005, Bon Appetit named McGee food writer of the year. In 2008, Time Magazine named him to its annual list of the world’s most influential people. McGee has written for many publications, including The World Book Encyclopedia, Nature, Food & Wine, and Fine Cooking and has appeared on public television’s “Diary of a Foodie” and on National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered,” “Fresh Air,” and “Science Friday.” He writes a monthly column, “The Curious Cook,” for The New York Times.

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Cooking New York Cheesecake and Graham Cracker Crust Recipe

Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010

I will show how to make a delicious, New York Cheesecake with a graham cracker crust. Background music composed by Kevin MacLeod@www.Incompetech.com and used with permission.

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Pastry and Baking at The French Culinary Institute

Wednesday, June 16th, 2010

http://www.frenchculinary.com/french-culinary-institute-video-tour.htm?cmp=vid-you

Learn about the Classic Pastry Program at The FCI.
With hands-on training, you will learn to master
cookies, tarts, pastries, wedding cakes, chocolates, fondant, blown sugar and sugar sculptures in as little as six months.

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PHILADELPHIA New York Cheesecake

Sunday, June 13th, 2010

PHILADELPHIA New York Cheesecake

Prep Time: 15 min. | Total Time: 5 hours 25 min. (incl. refrigerating) | Makes: 16 servings.

What You Need!
20 OREO Cookies, finely crushed (about 2-1/4 cups)
3 Tbsp. butter or margarine, melted
5 pkg. (8 oz. each) PHILADELPHIA Cream Cheese, softened
1 cup sugar
3 Tbsp. flour
1 Tbsp. vanilla
1 cup BREAKSTONE’S or KNUDSEN Sour Cream
4 eggs
1 can (21 oz.) cherry pie filling

Make It!
Heat oven to 325ºF.
1. Line 13×9-inch pan with foil, with ends of foil extending over sides. Mix crumbs and butter; press
onto bottom of pan.
2. Beat cream cheese, sugar, flour and vanilla with mixer until well blended.
Add sour cream; mix well. Add eggs, 1 at a time, mixing on low speed after each just until blended.
Pour over crust.
3. Bake 40 min. or until center is almost set. Cool completely. Refrigerate 4 hours. Top with pie filling.
Use foil handles to lift cheesecake from pan before cutting to serve.

How to Bake in Springform Pan:
Prepare and bake cheesecake as directed, substituting a 9-inch springform pan for the 13×9-inch pan
and increasing the baking time to 1 hour 10 min. or until center is almost set. Run knife or metal
spatula around rim of pan to loosen cake; cool before removing rim.

Duration : 0:1:39

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