Firstly, let's identify what flour is. Its amazing to me how many people have no idea how to make flour or where it comes from. Types of Wheat There are six classes of wheat within which are around...
California-native Sohrob Esmaili had a penchant for cuisine from a young age. I was really into baking and cooking as a teen, and I would bring things I prepared at home to school, Chef Sohrob says...
The Chocolate Labs origin story dates back nearly nine years when ICE began to outgrow its New York campus on West 23rd Street. The initial seed of an idea perhaps carving out a small corner of a...
Long before I developed a passion for working with chocolate, I began fostering a love for coffee. I dont exactly recall the occasion of my first pre-teen taste of coffee, but it subconsciously...
In mid-March, Arnold Byun, founder of With Warm Welcome (WWW), approached me with the idea of doing a Bakers Box after being inspired by the efforts of Bakers Against Racism last year. As an avid...
Every once in a while, a technique or a preparation will inspire me to reflect on some of the philosophical aspects of cooking. If I were to reduce the act of cooking down to the simplest of concepts...
Years ago, while working as the pastry chef at Le Bernardin, I began giving serious thought to the role of nostalgia and the sense of memories tied to taste. I still enjoy finding playful yet subtle...
I was grateful to have my former chef-instructor from ICE's Pastry & Baking Arts program, Penny Stankiewicz, share some wisdom about the process. With recipe testing, the first thing I do is research...
For years I have been passively using cocoa powder. Very rarely is cocoa powder the main ingredient in products I make so I rarely give it much thought. I always focus on the type of chocolate, the...
In its earliest modern form, in the days of the 19th-century Industrial Revolution, chocolate would have been sold unsweetened in rough blocks and cakes, to be ground or broken up by the end-user for...
Ever since ombre cakes became fashionable, the colorful trend has filled inspiration boards on Pinterest and flooded foodies' social media feeds. While the ombre hair trend emerged in the early part...
Using a kitchen scale is so important that it's the first lesson for Culinary Arts and Pastry & Baking Arts students at the 51勛圖. In the video below, Chef Jeff gives a sneak...