Cafe World: New Recipes for Advanced Chefs (a.k.a. Level 75)

Today Zynga has announced to all Cafe World chefs that the Cafe World advanced cookbook is almost ready to be unlocked. To get us all excited about it they announced the first four dishes that will be available to the Cafe World professional chefs that are level 75 or higher.
Cafe World Level 75 recipies
The first four recipes that will be released are Chicken Vindaloo, Osso Buco, Confit de Canard and Kabayaki. I was a bit uncertain what these dishes were from just the names so I did a little digging and here is what I learned. Chicken Vindaloo is an Indian dish and is made with chicken, many spices including curry, onion, chili peppers and garlic. A lot of restaurants add potatoes to the dish and also offer it with lamb instead of chicken. It is also usually one of the hottest types of Indian dishes served.

Osso Bucco is an Italian dish that when translated means "hollowed bone". It is made with veal shanks cooked in meat broth and flavored with white wine and vegetables.

Confit de Canard is more commonly called Duck Confit outside of France. The dish is made with a process of preservation that involves curing the meat in slat and then poaching it in its own fat. Its cooked slowly and sometimes is cooked as long as 10 hours.

Kabayaki is a Japanese dish of seafood that is filleted, boned and dipped in a sweet soy sauce based sauce. The meat is then broiled on a grill. In Japan the most common meat used to make this dish is eel and is considered a nutritious stamina generating food.

So, get ready for the new dishes when the advanced Cafe World cookbook is released!

This article originally appeared on Social Games Help.

Cafe World: Get hundreds of free VIP Salads from Facegamer's gift links

Today, Jacqueline Simon on Facegamer explained that every Cafe World player is allowed a certain number of "free-floating" gifts per day.

Free-floaters are gifts that you can get even though they've been sent by nobody, like the stuff that you click on a Facebook Wall or a Feed. Jacqueline explains this by claiming that "Zynga uses them as padding to honor a gift that would have otherwise been rejected by the system."

However this works, it's safe to say that Jacqueline has created a way for players to grab their maximum allotment of V.I.P. Salads that Zynga will let us take. The V.I.P. Salad (see image on the right) is dish that occasionally shows up on the Gifts page. They come in bunches of 35 and sell for 99 Coins per serving. Jacqueline has gathered 12 gift links, which she calls "Overloads".

Theoretically, clicking on her "Overloads" can get you more than 800 servings of VIP Salads!
But there are several rules to maximize this opportunity:

    1) Come to The Facegamer to collect Overloads BEFORE you accept your normal gifts for the day.
    Why? Accepting gifts can use up some of your free-floating gift quota. Remember that you get about twelve TOTAL, not each. So any combination should be fine as long as it's 12 or less. 6 VIP and 6 Energy is ok, but you're probably not going to get 12 VIP and 12 Energy.

    2) Don't use notes found on Facebook that have Super Sliders, Lobster Dinners, etc.
    Why? They also are designed to purposely use up your free-floating gift quota. You have to make a decision. Do you want Super Sliders (4 coins each), Lemon Butter Lobster (9 coin each) or VIP Dinner/Salad (99 coin each). You can only pick so many a day.

    3) Clearing your cache does occasionally help you collect these gifts, but not all the time. You can find very good and detailed instructions at Zynga support site, here: How to Clear your Cache

A copy of the links to her V.I.P. Salad Overloads is available right below. Be sure to check out your Cafe World Gifts box to see how many salads you might've gotten. Remember, not everybody gets the same amount of freebies using this hack.

           
           
           

Cafe World Builder Viewer: All your projects in one convenient place

Builder Viewer
You know that one empty space in the Cafe World toolbar that's created a lonely void between the Mystery Crate and Lightning Stove icons for sometime now? Zynga has finally revealed what has been waiting to fill that unsightly space: the Builder Viewer. This brand new feature is where you'll find every building project you're currently working on like the recent Queen Deep Freeze Idol. From here, you'll be able to work on each item, place ones you've yet to start and even ask your friends for Special Deliveries.

For the big spenders, players can also buy out functional items entirely from this menu, instantly creating buildings at a combined cost of its requirements. Unfortunately, this feature is being slowly rolled out and not everyone will see upon logging in. I, for example, am still staring at a blank space in my toolbar, feverishly patiently waiting for it to be filled.