Helpful hints about smoking a turkey for Thanksgiving or Christmas or any other winter holiday. It\'s not as hard as you think!

The Outer Banks is more than sandy beaches. Come look at the tasty vineyards and sample the fruits of the vines.

Like a good book, a good banquet is so much more than a meal for a crowd. The planning and execution is a task for the master idea-maker. Pulling it all off requires a cast and crew rivaling the filmmakers of Hollywood in size and skill.

A good steak comes from a cow that is bred for beef. Investigate and be sure the cows that the steaks are made from are from a line that is known for quality beef and are also fed corn. This will go a long way to insure that the beef is the best tasting beef you can find.

Fictional bars can provide one with a sense of the bar\'s place in culture. Drawing on the public\'s perception of bars, we can choose to import certain elements of these watering holes of film and myth in either a serious or playful way.

The commercial food we now consume is grown in soil that has been seriously depleted of its minerals because of continuous farming without crop rotation or rest. In addition, there is a total dependence on chemical fertilizers and pesticides to grow produce.

As opposed to the other food service careers, bartending is one job where personal style counts the most. The best bartenders I\'ve known always have a personality to them, and some even have a little edge of attitude. Always remember that the whole point of your job is recreation.

You could pretty much sum up the restaurant scene in America in one sentence: Hamburgers are dead; and beef itself is losing some appeal. The kind of restaurant that is making a name for itself these days is the one that gets a cult following rather than marketing to a general broad appeal.

After taking my degree from the wine classes I have been following for a whole semester I do not consider myself to be an expert in wine consumption, but an amateur who likes to taste the unexpected.

Have you ever examined your shopping cart when you last visited your local grocery store or supermarket without having eaten for hours? Probably the store\'s cashier did not pay attention to your huge food pile.