Month: October 2011

Who is Karl Kessab? The World’s First Tea Sommelier

Who is Karl Kessab? The World’s First Tea Sommelier

Flipping through the September/October’s issue of Hotel Dining, the supplement to HOTELS and Plate magazines, I read about a tea sommelier. Tea Sommelier? We all know that traditional wine sommeliers are experts in the field of wine, so why not have a tea sommelier to assist guests in 

Adult Chocolate Milk – What Desserts Can You Come Up With?

Adult Chocolate Milk – What Desserts Can You Come Up With?

Always looking for something new as an ingredient for desserts, I spotted this liqueur. It’s a vodka-based cream liqueur, and the makers are touting it as an adult version of the classic treat – chocolate milk. Instead of the usual Irish cream or the heather honey 

Coffee Plantations in San Salvador – For Sale

Coffee Plantations in San Salvador – For Sale

If you’ve ever wanted a coffee plantation to call your own, Schneider Industries has two working coffee plantations for auction. The first property is located in La Liberdad, San Salvador, and it is a complete coffee plantation set on just over ten acres. The second is located in Sonsonate, 

Upcoming Auction: The Corner Ice Cream Shoppe in Naperville, IL

Upcoming Auction: The Corner Ice Cream Shoppe in Naperville, IL

Auction: The Corner Ice Cream Shoppe This auction is conducted by Bob King Auctions, and includes many frozen dessert equipment pieces, such as display cases and mixers. If you have cash on hand for the items you want, there is a 2% discount for payment 

Boston Pastry Rendezvous

Boston Pastry Rendezvous

Presented by Boston After Six, the Boston Pastry Rendezvous happens on November 2, 6-11PM at the Back Bay Events Center. Sample pastries and start the holiday shopping sweetly. Tickets are 35.00 at Eventbrite, but for a limited time they are available at 43% off (20.00 

National Angel Food Cake Day – October 10

National Angel Food Cake Day – October 10

Think angel food cake is a recent invention? Well, you’d be thinking wrong. Angel food cake has been around a very long time, and the author of The American Pastry Cook, Jessup Whitehead, who goes into detail about its origins way back in 1894, and 

National Dessert Day – October 9

National Dessert Day – October 9

Celebrate it by making a dessert! What is a dessert? Basically, anything that you serve at the end of the meal. It could be baked, frozen, fresh, or warmed. It could also be something not even remotely sweet, like different cheeses, or even nuts and