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From our Ask the Chef series: What is a Certified Master Chef, and how many are there?

I am helping my future daughter-in -law plan her wedding. Since she is from Georgia, we are thinking about having a signature peach drink. What would you suggest we serve?

From our Ask the Chef series: I was in a trivia game where the question was, “What is the most popular spice used worldwide in cooking?” I answered “pepper” and was told it was wrong! They said the correct answer was “salt,” but isn’t that a mineral?

One foodie asks the chefs for the definition of tartare. Part of the Ask the Chef: Food Definitions.

Cheesecake can be made with your own crust in a pan, or a store-bought graham cracker crust purchased in a pie pan, versus using a Springform pan. There are differences the baker should take into account, though.

The popularity of this salad around the world is most likely due to a man that bears the salad’s name, Caesar Cardini, not Julius Caesar, as many people believe.

I was told in college that braising beef and cooking it for long periods of time actually breaks the fat down. So, when you eat it after several hours (6-8), it has little or no fat content, or properties of fat. True?

Recently we purchased an electric ice cream maker. The Sorbet recipe looked easy until I came to the last item: simple syrup. Please – what is simple syrup?

Another in our Ask the Chef series: Is it possible to make tuna patties on the grill with canned tuna?

From our Ask the Chef series: I somehow ended up with a surplus of powdered sugar. Does it ever go bad? Can it ever be used in place of regular sugar?