COOKING AND CUISINE

A personal account for the greatness of southern cooking and cuisine and why you should partake in the southern delicacy.

What follows are brief descriptions of several elements that can be combined to create a "Cask, Canvas, Candy and Cuisine" weekend getaway in Metairie.

I love eating French food and probably the worst thing about French cuisine is their desserts, which are typically rich and very fattening. However there are some great healthy alternatives when dining or cooking French.

Having come to Istanbul to study abroad there are many things that are quite different from life in the United States. Turks eat different food, follow a different religion and look at life differently. This is a beguiling culture.

Before, during and after cooking are the things that inspire me the most. The ideas I come up with, shopping and prepping and the cooked meal itself are my inspirations. Find out why I love cooking and when it all began for me. It's about the journey.

If tasting new world cuisines has inspired you to try cooking them on your own, there are a variety of ways you can learn how to cook internationally.

Food Network and PBS have given us great cooking shows over the past decade I feel are the most informative, yet entertaining up to a minimum. Many of these TV cooking stars now have other media projects. Some have become extremely well-known.

Why do so many travel shows feature large portions, extensive emphasis on meat-eating, and risk-taking adventure behavior?

Fusion cuisine is an outcome of globalization in peoples, trade, finance, business, communications, and relationships. Fusion cuisine reflects the meeting, interaction, mixing, and combination of global foods, global recipes, and global food preparation methods.

From holistic nutrition centers to natural gourmet culinary institutes, the programs at a vegetarian friendly cooking school are natural and vegan cooking styles. Here are some of the nation's leading spots for cooking and nutrition.

Cooking is fun, and a great profession. And there are schools in the Washington D.C. area where you can take cooking lessons either for fun or for a profession.

Here are three top San Francisco cooking schools that cater to professional chefs, amateur home cooks and kids. From top of the line culinary arts programs to hands on kids' programs, food is fun!