The Culinary Institute of America and The National Association for the Specialty Food Trade
Welcome
You’ve heard it before, but it bears repeating: You can make bad food from good ingredients, but you can’t make good food from poor ingredients. Investing in quality products, like fine oils and vinegars, makes good cooking much easier. You don’t need to impress guests with your culinary skills if you can impress them with your good taste in ingredients.
Home cooks have never had more tantalizing food choices to play with. Imported cured meats and artisan cheeses, unusual nut oils and aged vinegars, exotic salts and aromatic spice rubs---all are ready and waiting for the curious cook with a sense of adventure.
Here’s what to expect from these ingredients and how to incorporate them successfully into appetizers and meals. A well-stocked kitchen makes improvisational cooking possible and practically guarantees good entertaining and eating ahead.
