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What is Marinade?

February 9, 2011

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Marinades serves to tenderize meat, improve texture, and add flavor. Many recipes going around are acid-based because the thinking goes that the acid breaks down the structure of the muscle, making it more tender. This acid usually comes from vinegar, fruit juice or yogurt. What if I told you that was all wrong, or at [...]

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Neapolitan Pizza

February 2, 2011

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Authentic Neapolitan pizza is characterized by soft, flexible crust with a blistery, charred cornicione. There are very strict rules proposed by the Verace Pizza Napoletana Association which control ingredients and methods that would be impractical to follow in most home kitchens. In response there’s a growing Neo-Neapolitan trend which attempts to reproduce the best elements [...]

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Crust

February 2, 2011

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In America the entire bread component of a pizza. The end-crust, the edge or lip of a pizza, is known as cornicione to Neapolitan pizza aficionados.

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