ÖÖFirst up is Raquel Pelzel with her new book Umami Bomb – 75 Vegetarian Recipes That Explode with Flavor.
Ingeniously built around the use of eight umami-rich ingredients—aged cheese, tomatoes, mushrooms, soy sauce, miso, caramelized onions, smoke, and nutritional yeast—these 75 recipes are bursting with the sublime, savory fifth taste.
Turn mushrooms into “lardons” for a bold take on Southern black-eyed peas and greens. Caramelize onions to use in the best grilled cheese ever. Add a secret spoonful of soy sauce to the frosting of your next chocolate cake—the soy taste disappears but leaves behind an unexpected depth of flavor. Part of the brilliance of Umami Bomb is how the recipes layer these key ingredients to amplify their effect—like adding miso to an already cheesy cacio e pepe sauce for pasta so savory and delicious you’ll do a double take.
Raquel Pelzel’s work has been featured in Saveur, the Wall Street Journal, Every Day with Rachael Ray, Shape, and Epicurious, among many others. Formerly an editor at Cook’s Illustrated and the senior food editor and test kitchen director for Tasting Table, Pelzel has written more than 20 cookbooks and has judged Food Network shows including Chopped Junior and Beat Bobby Flay. Pelzel lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her two sons.
www.raquelpelzel.com @raqinthekitchen
Later in the show Louisa Lawless Chief Strategy Officer of Stratus Group joins us to talk about two of their innovative products. Louisa was a brief guest several weeks ago to talk about pH “Perfect Hydration” Alkaline water with electrolytes. Since we didn’t have enough time the first attempt we’ll touch on this fine water and then…
It’s all about one of their newest products KÖE Organic Kombucha
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If you’ve been around the beverage block or even just perused the drink section of your local health food store, you’ve probably come across the seemingly mysterious beverage called Kombucha. It might seem like a scary, trendy beverage reserved for health and wellness devotees, but now with KÖE Organic Kombucha, clean living doesn’t have to be a chore.
KÖE created the first easy-drinking, great tasting kombucha consumers have been waiting for. A refreshing and perfectly balanced, effervescent beverage, KÖE is the perfect solution for every consumer, bringing great taste and live probiotics in one shelf-stable can.
Good Life Guy’s Wine of the Week:
2016 Amicone Cantine-Di-Ora Repasso, Veneto Italy
Amicone is made from 40% Corvina grapes (same grapes that go into Amarone) 30% Rondinella and 30% Molinara. Ruby red color with delicate and vinous bouquet characterized by intense raspberry and black cherry aroma. In the mouth, it is full-bodied, soft and velvety, with hints of spices and chocolate thanks to the slow aging in Tonneaux. Amicone is obtained from a unique blend of selected red grapes cultivated in Veneto region. Part of these grapes undergoes a particular overripe process in the vineyards, followed by fermentation in stainless steel tanks. Once obtained the final blend, part of it goes into a slow maturation process in Tonneaux.
Food pairing
Ideal accompaniment to first courses, red meats, game, roasted meat and cheese. Serving temperature 14°-16°. It is suggested to decant at least one hour before serving.
Awards
Amicone Rosso Veneto IGT 2016:
BERLINER WEIN TROPHY 2018 – Gold
IWSC 2019 – Bronze
LUCA MARONI – 97 points
CONCOURS MONDIAL DE BRUXELLES 2019 – Gold