Sensational Food & Flavors | Colorful Beverages
24th Apr. '08 · Category: Gourmet Color · Tags: color wheel, food, fruit, recipe
Authored by Monica Kelly
Compose a fruit platter inspired by the color wheel and serve it with a creamy dipping sauce.
Choose golden YELLOW chunks of pineapple, ruby RED strawberries and BLUE berries for the primary colors. Add sunny ORANGE mandarin sections, PURPLE grapes and bright GREEN slices of kiwi to represent the secondary colors.
Voila! A beautiful, light dessert. (more…)
17th Apr. '08 · Category: Gourmet Color · Tags: benjamin moore, gourmet, green, paint, recipe, tarragon
Authored by Monica Kelly
Angela of Cottage Magpie issued a call for spring green in March. Kate posted about all the wonderful submissions last week.
A cook’s favorite spring green? Tarragon.
Its fresh green color and delicate leaves are the essence of spring. It conjures up tender young shoots pushing up through the earth. Since spring is a time of renewal, why not consider (more…)
8th Mar. '08 · Category: Gourmet Color · Tags: cooking, food
Authored by Kate Smith
The key to unocking great taste, mouth-watering presenations and healthy meals is color.
Caron Golden shares quick tips and introduces us to colorful cooking expert Jeanne Jones in her latest article…
30th Jan. '08 · Category: Gourmet Color · Tags: cooking, cuisine, gourmet
Authored by Kate Smith
I am so thrilled that Caron Golden whose website San Diego Foodstuff was recently featured in National Geographic Traveler, has authored an article for Sensational Color.
Caron shares my love of gourmet food, cooking and of course, color! I knew I had found a kindred spirit when Caron started talking about how color serves as both an inspiration and visual gauge for her when preparing a meal.
In ‘How green is your bean? Or, how color teaches us how to cook‘, Caron reminds us that when it comes to cooking it’s all in the timing and shows us how color can be our guide to perfectly prepared meals.
Ready to find out how you can use color when cooking? Great, click here to go to Caron’s article…
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I knew that abalone is one of the most sought-after sea ingredients in Chinese cuisine, but didn’t know that it is judged by its color - until today.
According to Michael Au Kam Wo, the award-winning chef who has spent almost a lifetime researching this mollusk, “Fresh abalone is graded according to the color.”
“The best is the green-lip abalone from Australia, followed by the yellow-lip and then the black lip. The color comes from the seaweed that the abalone feeds on.”
“And green seaweed is found in clear, unpolluted waters, so naturally, the abalone is also of better quality.”
But, having said that, Au maintains that he is dedicating his life’s work to creating cooking methods that will make cheaper abalone taste as good as the expensive stuff.
Are you a fan of this tasty mollusk ?
More on abalone at GoodBites.com
26th Sep. '06 · Category: Gourmet Color , Category: Home & Garden ·
Authored by Kate Smith
While I adore pumpkins in orange, my color lust has me seeking this harbinger of winter’s chill in many different hues.
2nd Aug. '06 · Category: Gourmet Color , Category: Home & Garden · Tags: gardening, gourmet, nature
Authored by Kate Smith
Purple was recently one of the hottest colors on the runway, then it made a splash in home interiors, and now purple has even taken honors as a trendy color for carrots.
The “Purple Haze” carrot is one of the 2006 winners recognized by All-America Selections as “a flower or vegetable for significant achievements, proven to be superior to all others on the market.” With a deep purple exterior and bright orange interior, it is sure to be a hit with gourmet chefs.
Where might purple turn up next?
The Chesapeake Bay, not far from where I live, is famous for crabs, and locally, we celebrate summer with many crabfests.
As I was reading about an upcoming Blue Crab festival this morning, I remembered a fun tidbit about these colorful crustaceans and wanted to share it with you.
Did you know that there is an easy way to tell the difference between a male and female blue crab?
Male blue crabs have claws with blue tips and female blue crabs “paint their fingernails” red.
For more fun facts, humorous t-shirts, and useful information about blue crabs, visit www.bluecrab.info
21st May. '06 · Category: Gourmet Color , Category: Messages & Meanings · Tags: color-&-mood, green, humor
Authored by Kate Smith
For years, there has been a myth that green M&M’s are an aphrodisiac. M&M’s played up on this myth in several of their commercials, including one where a mother is speaking to her husband about her concern for a poster hanging in her son’s room that we, as the audience, are assuming is a scantily-clad young babe.
The father replies, “Relax dear. It’s what boys do!” The camera then pans to reveal that their son’s object of desire is Ms. Green M&M, posing in all her glory. To add to the humor, the commercial ends with mom opening the bedside table, where she discovers a drawer full of green M&Ms.
Fortunately, M&M’s now have an entire palette of colors that you can mix to match whatever message you want to communicate. You can see all of the colors and some color suggestions at the M&M’s store, but below are a few tongue-in-cheek recommendations of my own.
Kate’s M&M Color Guide
Sensual: Purple, Dark Pink & Red
Serene: Aqua Green, Light Blue & Blue
Mystical: Purple, Maroon, Gray & Light Purple
Romantic: Pink, Light Purple & Cream
Power: Combinations of Black/Purple or Black/Red or Black/Gold
