The Virginia Culinary Expo featuring Emeril Lagasse is coming Sunday April 19th to the Ted Constant Convocation Center. Come experience food sampling and sales and cooking demonstrations by Emeril Lagasse and other regional and local chefs.

The food world has churned on high speed for the last several years. 2009 will see the trend continue and deepen. Americans are getting more intimate with their food. A few forces have been working to bring this about: the explosion of the "foodie" culture on TV, the Internet, and in magazines, celebrity cookbooks, food cook-off competitions, and growing concern over food safety. Independent, underground and designer restaurants pop up everyday. Grocery stores bulge with new and exciting entries like organic foods, on-site gourmet meals, exotic ingredients, wine cellars, beer coolers, and bakery style breads. There's an abundance of information on food, beverages and entertaining. Emeril has been a major force in the food revolution.

I don't know about you but I'm a mess with kitchen knives.  Everytime I have to cut something I either ask my husband to do it or he offers to do it because he knows my "skill".

Here's a video that I enjoyed a lot and I hope you enjoy.  This video is a brief demonstration from Williamsburg's Chef Gonzales from A Chef's Kitchen.  In the video, he goes over some basic knife skills.  As always, I learned something new and very useful from John!  Happy Cutting... and Cooking!