No matter how well you cook a dish, sometimes it doesn't seem to look quite as good as the same food in a restaurant. While it's true that chefs have a lot more training when it comes to plating, not ...

Trends in recent years have been toward “less is more” presentation of food, with eye-popping colors and smaller portions on shiny white plates of all shapes and sizes. Which leads to the matter of ...

These sugar-covered cranberries make a pretty red garnish on your favorite dessert or baked goods — like cheesecake, coffee cake, holiday fruitcake and fruit tarts or pies. But they can also do so ...

Consider the martini’s olives, the Gibson’s onion, the Manhattan’s cherry or the julep’s particularly lavish mint bouquet. Each of these cocktails, and many others, would not be complete without their ...

This sugar-coated garnish is good for an array of adult beverages. If you ever tapped a watermelon with vodka or filled a sheet tray of gummy bears to swim in a pool of your preferred adult beverage ...

We garnish a cocktail to complete its taste and presentation! The last step of many classic and contemporary cocktail recipes is to add a citrus peel, fruit wedge, maraschino cherry, onion, or olive.