Produce expert Dan Avakian joins a panel of culinary professionals on Beyond Wonderful, an ever-growing web site of classic and seasonal recipes, how-to cooking techniques, features and expert advice.
San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) July 17, 2006—Culinary expert Barbara Adams announced today that Dan “the Produce Man, Avakian, has joined the panel of contributing culinary experts for Beyond Wonderful (>www.beyondwonderful.com).
Beyond Wonderful represents a dedicated team of food and wine experts, writers, photographers, graphic artists and editors—all united in their passion for fabulous cuisine.
Every month, Avakian will share his expertise on what’s good, what’s not good and the best deals in getting quality produce every time.
Avakian’s passion for produce began when he started working in an open-air produce market in 1976. Later he moved to Fry’s Food stores, owned his own produce store, helped pioneer the produce program at Costco Wholesale in Northern California, build the produce program for Webvan.com the online grocer and contributed greatly to a San Francisco Bay Area Organic home delivery service.
Over the years, Avakian has written produce columns for local newspapers, produced this own radio show on over 60 radios stations and presently “Getting Fresh with Dan the Produce Man” is heard on www.111 Radio.com.
He appears regularly as guest host on Rosy Chu’s Bay Area People http://www.ktvu.com/community/2231138/detail.html) on Cox Television, KTVU Channel 2 in Oakland, California.
In this months’ column Avakian gives tips on spring produce—how to select the right cauliflower, how to recognize past prime strawberries, what does a “squeaking” Artichoke mean and much more.
The Produce Expert column is just one of the new content addition to the BeyondWonderful.com culinary website which has produced hundreds of recipes, “How To’s”, and seasonal food features that are accompanied by photos, a distinction from all but a handful of food/culinary websites.
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Beyond Wonderful (Beyondwonderful.com) launched in September 2004, hailing from the San Francisco Bay Area, internationally renowned for culinary innovation. The brainchild of Barbara Adams, Beyond Wonderful l experiences the color, flavor, vitality and spice in an ongoing culinary adventure from farms to markets to vineyards and beyond, culminating, of course, in the kitchen. Every Beyond Wonderful recipe reflects Barbara’s inspired creativity, plus months of meticulous testing, editing, and refining by the BW team.
For more information contact us at pr@beyondwonderful.com.
