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Filed under: Wine, Vegetables, Recipes, How To, America, Spirits, Summer If you're a friend of mine, I'm sorry, but I'm about to spoil your Christmas present. You're getting my homemade corncob wine. Now get that look off your face -- it's actually pretty darned tasty, and if you don't believe me, at least trust the palates of James Beard Award ...

Filed under: Recipes, Lists, Fall Flavors, America, Comfort Food, Real Kitchens, Thanksgiving, Fall Whether you call it filling, dressing, or stuffing (and whether you know that, to some, there is a distinction between each); whether you make it from sourdough, cornbread, or white bread (or spelt if you're sensitive to wheat or are Ancient ...

Filed under: Recipes, Pork, Food Oddities, America Turn off your spam-blockers and get ready for an avalanche of salty, eraser-colored porktastic goodness. The other day, I wrote about how Spam is ramping up production to meet recession-fueled demand. Some of you passionately defended the oft-ridiculed meat product; others requested Spam recipes. ...

Filed under: East Coast, Recipes, Trends, Newspapers, Eggs, America, in sixty seconds, Meat, Food News Corporations push hybrid ''superfoods'' - Orange juice fortified with omega 3s from sardines, fiber-filled yogurt, etc. Trend: Dieters who stop dieting and start eating healthy food in a moderate and conscientious manner. Sarah Palin's ...

Filed under: Beef, Recipes, America, Retro cookery, Soups/Salads From The Heinz Book of Meat Cookery (1930), HJ Heinz Company I'm interrupting the semi-regularly scheduled Midnight Sausage series to share molded food images and recipes from my personal collection of early-to-mid 20th century cookbooks. There will be aspic. There will be mousse. ...

Filed under: Teas, Whisky, Recipes, Fruit, America, Spirits, Ingredient Spotlight, Guilty Pleasures, Summer Over the past few summers, cherry-based cocktails have become something of a signature for me, to the point whereupon being proposed to in mid-July a few years back, I immediately began pulping and freezing cherries for use in our wedding ...

Filed under: East Coast, Business, Beef, Recipes, Newspapers, America, in sixty seconds Cheeseburgers are popping up in the three-star restaurants of Paris. Quelle Horreur! Meanwhile, on the other side of the Atlantic: Sliders are invading New York! iPhone's Urban Spoon program will tell you where to eat. Which is the definitive Big Easy ...

Filed under: Teas, Dessert, Recipes, Leftovers , America, Comfort Food, Non-alcoholic, Guilty Pleasures, SummerKind little rituals seem to go a long way toward making marriage work, so almost every weekend, I make my husband some sweet tea. He's a Southern boy by birth (Brooklynian by marriage), and having a big ol' pitcher easily grabbable in the ...

Filed under: Beef, Poultry, Recipes, Pork, Barbecuing, Lists, Grilling, America, Meat, Holidays, Summer The Grand Rapids Press has a list of several dozen beef, chicken vegetable and fish tips for your Independence Day bash. Try wrapping fish in prosciutto or bacon to prevent drying. And cook snapper and other delicate fish in foil or on a plank ...

Filed under: Poultry, Recipes, Grilling, America, Guilty Pleasures I'm not gonna pretend that this picture is pretty, or in the least bit appetizing, but I will note that the results are disturbingly delicious. The heart of the matter is that I went to a cookout a few weekends ago and was offered a grilled chicken heart by a friend who has yet to ...