Author name: Toya de la Guardia

Soy española, algo que sin elegirlo me parece un privilegio, aunque por educación y por mis vivencias diría que "Ciudadana del Mundo"

SAYING WAITER IS TO SAY HOST

There are a number of rules, included in what we usually call “Protocol”. This series of “rules of behaviour” is something that every waiter or expert in the hotel and catering industry must know and practice. Nowadays, what we call “Protocol” in the catering service has evolved over the last years and there are many things to take into consideration.

APHRODISIACS OR EROTIC GASTRONOMY?

From the beginning there has been a close relationship between gastronomy and eroticism. Men and women relate sexually to procreate and have offspring and, so conserve their species, and all their lives they need to feed themselves so as not to die. Sexuality and gastronomy are, therefore, both essential acts of life: the subsistence and maintenance of the species depend on them.

HOW THE ZODIAC SIGNS INFLUENCE GASTRONOMY

The term Gastrology, is used to define the study of the relationship between the horoscope and gastronomic preferences. The French doctor Louis Donnet, was who after studying more than 12.000 patients, published in 1987 a Zodiac for health, where he assigned each astrological sign a particular diet, which would be the most appetizing for those born under that sign, but also the healthiest.

NEITHER CATERING NOR CHEF! HOW TO CALCULATE THE PORTIONS?

How many times have we asked ourselves the following question when we decide to organize a party, a gathering of Friends or the feared family get togethers at Christmas time, and we don’t know where to begin…How to calculate the amounts of food and drink? When we’re used to preparing the food only for ourselves, …

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IN SEARCH OF THE LOST TOMATO

According to the Plant Introduction Service of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) it alone has made a list of 10,000 different types of tomatoes obtained in the past by farmers around the world. But unfortunately, most, possibly more than 80%, are no longer found in seed banks and there are now few varieties of this tasty fruit that reach the consumer. The reason for this brutal decline is in the standardization of crops promoted in the main by the biotechnology multinationals. Thus, the hybrid tomatoes that are used today for intensive production have a high degree of genetic uniformity.

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