Polish up your kitchen skills with How-To advice from Internet resources:

1. Bouquet Garni: Does the term “bouquet garni” intimidate you? Don’t let it! – VIDEO (NY TIMES)
2. Real Food Right Now: How to Cook Collard Greens (GRACE LINKS)
3. Learn How to Make Mayonnaise with Gordon Ramsay – VIDEO (YOUTUBE)
4. Kitchen Basics (PAULA DEEN)
5. Jacques Pepin Shows You How to Prepare a French Omelette on No Reservations – VIDEO (YOU TUBE)
6. Grilling the Perfect Filet Mignon (GIVERS LOG)
7. How to Peel a Head of Garlic in Less Than Ten Seconds - VIDEO (SAVEUR)
8. For the best mashed potatoes, put a ton of garlic in them (SLATE)
9. How to Make Perfect Prime Rib (SERIOUS EATS)
10. Preserved Lemons (COOK TASTE EAT)

This sounds good…

1. The Graveyard Of Shelved Ice Cream Flavors (MORNING EDITION / NPR)
2. From the Archives: Jacques Pepin (FORUM WITH MICHAEL KRASNY / KQED)
3. Interview with Thomas Keller of The French Laundry (FROM SCRATCH RADIO)
4. Episode 120 Drink Tank with Brad Thomas Parsons (EDIBLE RADIO)
5. LA’s Cheap Eats; Raw Milk; Fortified Wine (GOOD FOOD / KCRW)
6. Nuevo Latino: Not Your Grandma’s Cooking (NPR)

Video clips featuring culinary subject matter: your favorite chefs, the latest restaurant openings, food product releases and more!

1. Discover Mexico’s Exotic Sauce (CHOCOLATE CENTRAL TV)
2. Watch the David Chang vs Questlove Fried Chicken Battle (EATER)
3. Colbert Talk Bologna (NEUROPE)
4. Festivals and Food: Origins of the Pinkster Celebration (FOOD AS A LENS)
5. Watch a $70,000 Russian Caviar Eating Contest (EATER)
6. Watch Jacques Pepin Discuss Over Fifty Years of Cooking (EATER)

Video clips featuring culinary subject matter: your favorite chefs, the latest restaurant openings, food product releases and more!

1. “No Reservations” star Anthony Bourdain talks travel (THE DAILY SHOW)
2. Restaurant Names ‘Black & Bleau’ Sandwich After Rihanna, Chris Brown (MTV)
3. Successful women entrepreneurs: Kathleen King, founder and owner of Tate’s Bake Shop, chats about her growing cookie company (MARTHA STEWART)
4. Man Eats 30 Peeps In 35 Seconds (FOOD REPUBLIC)
5. Watch Jacques Pepin Explain Dan Aykroyd’s French Chef (EATER)
6. Balut, The World’s Most Bizarre Food (HUFFINGTON POST)

The chef recommends…

1. Mexican chefs keeping kitchen traditions alive (BBC)
2. Montreal restaurant and Gordon Ramsay part ways (TORONTO SUN)
3. Chef Ming Tsai serves mislabeled fish to China’s vice president (BOSTON.COM)
4. Jacques Pépin: In Ship Shape (FOOD ARTS)
5. Great chefs share tricks of the trade (LA TIMES)
6. Anthony Bourdain and Top Chef Have It Wrong: the Boys’ Club Is No Fun (THE DAILY BEAST)