
Taste of Dubai 2018 – Preview
Taste of Dubai, City’s most celebrated event for food, drink, and music, returns for its 11th successive year loaded with much more fun…
Taste of Dubai, City’s most celebrated event for food, drink, and music, returns for its 11th successive year loaded with much more fun…
Strawberry adds a delicious touch to espresso. Use strawberry purée to add more authenticity tot he flavors. Espresso x 2 shot Strawberry sauce x…
The Greeks made them, the Romans made them but the French mastered pates and terrines which are a big part of cuisines and…
This little pot of yogurt comes with a delicious topping of creamy granola and honey, a great recipe by Chef Marco Morana for Food…
Appetizers are dishes that we serve prior to the main course to whet our appetites and also to set the right tone for the…
Ensalada is a Spanish term for salad, and is considered a staple food for their everyday meal. It’s a typical salad of the Valencia…
Gambas Garbadina INGREDIENTS serves2/3 About 14-18 large fresh shrimp peeled (except for tail) 1/2 cup flour 1 egg white 1 ts sweet paprika 1…
“Being a healthy woman is not about getting on a scale or measuring your waistline. We need to start focusing on what matters…
Late spring and the beginning of summer, spells a new dawn for the picnic enthusiasts. Dust the cobwebs from your baskets and shake…
What do you get when you bring together a chef who is as serious about fitness as she is about food? Pure dynamism…
DUBAI, FEBRUARY, 2017: International Center for Culinary Arts (ICCA Dubai) is all set to extend its horizons beyond UAE to mark new beginnings with…
“Oh you’re a Chef! Where do you work?” This question is usually the first I get upon meeting foodies. I always get a little…
Compressed into a snack bar that gets us the oomph to keep going, the healthy granola bar ought to be honoured! A saviour for…
Move over kale, obsessively-decorated smoothie bowls and the calorie-laden monster-shakes. The global food trends for 2017 is going to be everything 2016 was not!…
What comes to your mind when you hear healthy food? Typically, for most of us healthy means greens, lean proteins, sugar & dairy free,…
Follow this traditional malva pudding recipe to make one of South Africa’s favourite desserts. Serve with custard, fresh cream or ice cream. For PuddingIngredients Quantity Castor…
Industrial predictions have been rolling in for 2017, and culinary industry is also on the raise to predict the upcoming trends for this year….
Winter has certainly arrived in all its eloquence! When the evening is cold or your body decides to slow down on its routine, then…
Christmas is a season of fun, laughter and celebrations. Itis that time of the year, when everyone gets busy planning and preparing feasty…
Although he is a qualified engineer, with a successful career as a service engineer with the Toyota plant back in the Philippines, Chef Carlo…
Winter and holiday months are all about mugs full of sinfully delicious hot chocolate and mocha delights to keep you warm and happy…
Live life on the fast track! That is exactly what our students of the professional chef course did in the 4 days spent…
Fresh herbs are readily available in every good supermarket, so as a foodie, cook or chef you should get to know your herbs as well as learn how to cook with them.
Winter is here! It’s that time of the year when the wind’s whipping and the sky is grey. Not many would find that…
This year’s young chef competition was held in Manchester, UK, a city in which the first computer was developed and the atom discovered….
As the festival of good food, drinks and music entertained the capital with a fun & flavourful weekend, ICCA had some serious yet…
Taste of Abu Dhabi is a food, drink and music festival, food being the main attraction. A gathering of people from all corners…
Bread has always intrigued me. From the very basic five minutes fix of flat bread (called roti or chapatti) made of flour and…
Basboussa is a semolina cake popular in the Middle East and originated in Palestine. This cake is soaked in syrup made with sugar and…
Ingredients Serves 2 2 tbsp. olive oil 1 tbsp. medium onion (finely chopped) 100 g pumpkin (diced) 200 g Arborio rice 50 ml…
“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is…
A sauce is something that adds moisture, flavour and a visual appeal to the dish. It helps bind the ingredients together and also…
Ingredients 450g sea bream, cleaned and scales off 200g potato, skin on and thinly sliced 60g cherry tomato cut in half 25g…
Tomato which is now an integral culinary ingredient is consumed in a variety of ways, eaten raw or cooked, used in salads and…
Team: more recognisable as a word is also an acronym for ‘Together We Achieve More’. Team-building or better still Team-bonding has become a…
Joining the ranks of famous rivalries, the battle between waffles and pancakes has been a tightly-contested one. Floppy, soft and spongy, team pancakes…
“Cooking is a creation. As a creation, it is a personalized view of the way we like to express our feelings. It is…
Serves 2 Ingredients 300 g chopped broccoli florets 180 g seedless green grapes 1 small cucumber, roughly chopped 115 ml water Acqua Panna or…
Eid-Ul-Adha, the festival of sacrifice, venerating the completion of the Hajj is around the corner. It is a joyous occasion; a time to…
As a patisserie chef, I keep trying different recipes for cakes and desserts that I can incorporate as a new learning for my…
Most of the earth’s surface is covered by the oceans and the seas. A fisherman’s job is to pick out the best out…
To impart knowledge on a continual basis is quite a challenge, especially for one to take up but it comes from an innate…
Most of us cook to satisfy our hunger while for some the gastronomic wonders of the food travel all the way from the…
We have all heard the word ‘sustainability’ and in our industry, it gets used like “caramelized”, “de-constructed”, “organic” or “healthy” without actually any…
As Chefs it is our job to know everything there is to know about food. Today we are talking about meat. Before we…
Nothing screams as loud as your Personality! Whether it impresses or fails to make an impact, your Personality is the trademark of a…
Roasted Chicken Breast with Balsamic, Honey & Mustard Serves 4 12 Jersey royals potatoes, quartered 2 cups cherry tomatoes 2 tablespoons olive oil Maldon…
Many years ago whilst coming through the ranks of a cook, the word sustainability was not a word that really meant anything to…
In this day and age, where on one hand we are surrounded by fast foods, aerated drinks, sugar-free chewing gum and on the…
Do your job and demand your compensation; but in that order. -Cary Grant I often come across enthusiastic graduates applying for a new…
“Cooking is one of the simplest and most gratifying of the arts, but to cook well one must love and respect food” –Craig Claiborne….
After the holidays, start with some protein shake to give you an extra boost in the morning! Strawberry Smoothie by Chef Marco Morana Ingredients…
The National dish of Egypt, Umm Ali also called Om Ali- translated as Ali’s Mother. This scrumptious dessert is a Middle Eastern version of…
An English dinner all-time-favorite, served traditionally with mint sauce and roasting juices, could be stuffed and trussed or trussed after marinating. Could…
ICCA Dubai Shaikha Almemeri wins the Bronze & “Best Hygienic Chef” at the East Coast Competitions, UAE. “Although I finished everything before the…
“Cooking is like Love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.” Harriet Van Horne Passion, Patience, Persistence, Perseverance, Perfection…
From machining engineers to Educators recognised around the world for innovation, quality and dedication to education in Sugarcraft, with over 50 years…
An extremely well known phrase, a very true one as well. The benefits of eating breakfast are that it gives our body &…
“Indians do not really eat hot, hot foods. People have that wrong impression. They eat food flavored with spices, but then the spices are not…
I recall moving into my first apartment many years ago and wondering what I would need in the soft furnishings side. How would…
This is the very first cannelloni i ever made, whilst working in the Amalfi coast in an extremely well known Michelin star restaurant….
Cooking with Love, provide food for the Soul… I will never forget the smell of the lovely smoked meat when I would go to…
Spring is upon us and mother earth simply waits to burst into her full bloom. We at the ICCA Sugarcraft Studio humbly attempt…
Here at the International Centre for Culinary Arts – ICCA Dubai, we chef instructors are not just teachers, but are actually life coaches…
The mini beetroot macaroons adds texture, which is one of the key elements when assembling dishes to stimulate all the sense in order to…
Spring is the beginning of wonderful produce in the UK. Mother nature has woken up from her long winter sleep. One of the…
ICCA Dubai Sana Quidwai Wins Silver at Salon Culinaire “It was out of the blue when I was announced as one of the…
One of the many questions I am asked is “what does it take to become a chef”. In an industry that was male…
International Center for Culinary Arts (ICCA) Dubai, is an Official Partner of Taste of Dubai and has geared up into its fullest spirits…