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Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Dishing About Authentic Cooking Travel Adventures

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By Adriana Noton

Cooking travel is worldwide social or vacation event. As testament to the flourishing food curiosity and interest, a person need only turn on the television, read a periodical, or browse the internet. All things food related are everywhere. Sampling food, which restaurants to patronize, and preparation of food entice people to venture further into the world of food.

Day trips might be a jaunt across town to explore a new or favorite restaurant. Other trips might be more extended and out of your residential area. Sampling and comparing food items can be a fun way to sit down and make friends, a timeless method for fellowship whether in your city or around the world.

At home, you can easily realize that all menu items are not created equal, just as all chefs are not cut from the same cloth apron. For instance, a Barber Street crab cake in New Orleans may be very distinct from a crab cake in another part of New Orleans. A Philly cheese steak in New York is very different from one in California and Philadelphia itself. In fact, the cheese sandwich might taste significantly different in San Diego, California than it does in Stockton, California. The pizza in Rome is unlike the average American pizza. Anchorage, Alaska brings a bounty of king crab legs to your table that are remarkably more tasty than outside of the state of origin. Lumpia in Alaska and California taste distinct from the ones found in the London open air markets. For sweeter fare, a waffle in the United States is a breakfast food cooked in a waffle iron or toaster, then dolloped with butter and splashed with syrup. However, when traveling to Amsterdam, you can discover that a waffle is a fried dessert drizzled with icing and served at outdoor fairs.

Preparing food can impart a sense of community fellowship. People may decide that they enjoy a meal so much that they must learn the recipe to recreate the dish. When traveling abroad or seeking to travel abroad, a person might hope to bring their eating experience home. Authentic Tex Mex guacamole flavor can zest up bagged tortilla chips, and bring home Mexico.

Food preparation might include observing cooking demonstrations, participating, and tasting food. Demonstrations in restaurants might be merely watching the chef cook and lecture, with the end result meal plated for student consumption. Other demonstrations allow students to watch, participate and complete the meal for restaurant guests.

Instruction can be found on a local level, from one class to a series. Culinary skills can be enhance locally at community colleges, schools of culinary art, colleges. Restaurants and personal chefs might offer instruction. Classes can be specialty based, such as learning about pastry art, or a particular pastry. Thai food, Southern food, and other regional or specialty food can become part of your culinary education plan. Christmas, valentine, and Halloween treats could be seasonal skills goals. Specialty foods such as vegetarian, vegan, gluten free, healthy, low carbohydrate or cholesterol, are other cooking niches.

Some cooks aim to further expand their horizons. You can pack your bags and travel within your country or further your education by going abroad. The global food menu offers formal schools, classes, and less formal ways to use your taste buds by sampling local cuisine in your destination country for a broader culinary palette.

Globally, cooking travel is a regular past time. Media often mention the international past time of eating. The variety of food is as rich and diverse as the people preparing and eating it in all parts of the world. For those seeking culinary adventures to taste or prepare food, the world, as well as your own community, is your oyster. - 24553

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