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House and Home, Lifestyle

Change Your Kitchen Into a Professional Chef’s Haven

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Achieving professional-level efficiency and precision at home may seem impossible, but it’s entirely achievable with the proper tools and setup. Purchasing quality cookware, revamping organization techniques, and applying some professional tips, you can elevate your cooking experience to rival that of professional chefs. In this blog, we will look at how you can turn your kitchen into a creative culinary workspace that creates creativity and functionality.
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Food and Drink, Lifestyle

Why You Need Different Knives for Different Cheeses

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If you’ve ever stood in front of a cheese board wondering why there are so many oddly shaped knives, you’re not alone. Until you try slicing through a crumbly wedge of aged cheddar with a soft cheese spreader, this kitchen question may seem excessive.

Culinary professionals sometimes look for a cheese knife set for sale when upgrading kitchen tools.  Do you actually need a whole set of dedicated cheese knives, or is it just clever marketing? Let’s cut through the confusion (pun fully intended) and find out what really makes a difference.
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Arts and Culture

Is There Any Sword Fighting Involved in Aikido?

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Aikido is a modern Japanese martial art that focuses primarily on self-defense and avoiding injury to oneself and one’s opponent. Unlike other martial arts, aikido techniques do not rely on striking or kicking to defeat an opponent. Instead, aikido uses throwing, joint locking, and pinning techniques to neutralize attacks.
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Arts and Culture

Pink Thing of The Day: Pink Knives By Andy Warhol

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andy warhol pink knives photo by gail worley
Photo By Gail

Just when you think you’ve seen every piece of art by Andy Warhol, you discover that the Brooklyn Museum has an exhibit called Revelation, where I saw a bunch of stuff I had no idea even existed — and for Warhol completist like me, that is saying something. This expansive exhibit (on through June 19th, 2022) examines themes in Warhol’s body of work such as life and death, power and desire, the role and representation of women, Renaissance imagery, family and immigrant traditions and rituals, depictions and duplications of Christ, and the Catholic body and queer desire. It’s a must-see for any Warhol fan, for sure. This painting of Pink Knives shares a gallery with many colorful and (of course) repetitive depictions of Knives, Guns and Crosses. Very fun!

Arts and Culture

Hew Locke, Koh-i-Noor, Portrait of Queen Elizabeth II

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Koh-i-Noor,Hew Locke
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For his mixed media assemblage, Koh-i-Noor (2005) Hew Locke (Scottish, born 1959) arranged thousands of cheap plastic toys and trinkets — disposable products of the new global economy — into one edition of a series of portraits of Queen Elizabeth II (entitled the House of Windsor Series), one of which was among the most extraordinary works in the Museum’s exhibition, Infinite Island: Contemporary Caribbean Art (2007). Locke, born in Scotland but raised in Guyana, created these works in response to ethnic tensions within contemporary British society, often growing out of Great Britain’s colonial history, with that history now brought home to Britain. Continue reading Hew Locke, Koh-i-Noor, Portrait of Queen Elizabeth II →