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Filed under: How To , Health & Medical When we learn about nutrition, we tend to focus on calories and vitamins. We're taught about which foods may prevent cancer and help our immune system. We normally concentrate on the physical effects of food Read More...
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Filed under: Dessert , Bakeries , Artisan Foods I have a co-worker that has the ability to find some of the most amazing cakes on the internet. Knowing that have an unhealthy obsession with anything edible, he is nice enough to send links to those cakes Read More...
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Filed under: Recipes , Soups/Salads , Summer One of the dishes I look forward to making when summer rolls around is the tomato salad you see above. It's nothing particularly special, just some chopped tomato (I use whatever I have on hand that is ripe, Read More...
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Filed under: Cheese , France , Cheese Course I often think about cheeses according to where they're from. Lately, I've been trying different Ossau-Iraty cheeses. These sheep's milk cheeses come from the French Pyrenees between the Ossau valley and the Read More...
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Filed under: Dairy , Cheese , Slashfood Ate , Artisan Foods Ah, the cheese plate! What would a party be without it? People gravitate towards the plate and it becomes the focal point of conversation at the party: "Have you tried this one? I highly recommend Read More...
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Filed under: Lists , Guilty Pleasures A while, back, I wrote a post on emotionally-based food aversions -- both my own (tuna noodle casserole), and those of loved ones (scrambled eggs, mayonnaise, garlic). Little did I know this was going to open up Pandora's Read More...
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Filed under: Stores & Shopping , Food News The Safeway family of grocery stores (they own eight regional store brands, including Genuardi's, Vons and Tom Thumb) has always prided itself on being a friendly, consumer-oriented market. When I was growing Read More...
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Filed under: Fruit , On the Blogs , Health & Medical At first I thought, there's no way I'm taking a bunch of cherries and rubbing them on my arms and legs, but then I saw that you have to eat them. Our sister blog That's Fit has a post about how Read More...
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Filed under: Whisky , Recipes , Cocktails , America , Spirits , Raising the Bar , Summer I know the Kentucky Derby was last month, and by some measures the venerable Mint Julep only crosses our radar then and then only. But when the day is hot and the Read More...
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Filed under: Real Kitchens , Mother's Day In recent years, my mom has become increasingly difficult to shop for. She has been working at reducing the amount of stuff in her life and so doesn't want the knick knacks and gadgets that we once plied her with. Read More...
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Filed under: Lists , Meat , Mother's Day We're on the home stretch for Mother's Day, which means that times a-ticking to get the perfect card and gift before the big day. There might be only a handful of days left, but there is still time to get a gift Read More...
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Filed under: Farming , America I love the idea of a pizza farm! It's a farm divided into pie slices with each slice featuring a different pizza topping. Sections could include tomatoes, onions, peppers, broccoli, or even pigs (for bacon). There are several Read More...
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Filed under: Restaurants I'm pretty sure I've never even seen a McDonald's sign that had a single arch. However, for the residents of the Alabama town of Huntsville, a single arch sign has been a familiar sight for more than 40 years. Their arch, which Read More...
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Filed under: Dairy , New Products , France I guess I missed this over the summer, though I can't imagine how something so strange could have slipped through my Google Reader ! Apparently, a dairy farm in France offers cheese made from human *** milk. Read More...
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Filed under: Restaurants , Trends , Europe , Celebrities Will Spanish avant-garde cuisine, as epitomized by the creations of legendary El Bulli chef Ferran Adrià, stand the test of time? Lisa Abend ponders spherified mango "caviar" and Parmesan Read More...
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