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Filed under: Dessert, Business, Dairy, Chocolate, New Products, Comfort Food, Sugar, Celebrities, Guilty Pleasures, SummerIn his forty-plus year career, Elton John has had no lack of awards: in addition to an Oscar for his work on The Lion King, he can boast five Grammys, a place in the Songwriter's Hall of Fame, a spot in the Rock and Roll Hall ...

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: Dessert, Food News, Summer Tonight, Ben Franklin and Betsy Ross are getting married. If that last sentence made you sit up a little straighter and blink with confusion at your computer screen, you're not the only one. You see, the actors who play Ben and Betsy all around Philadelphia are actually the ones getting married and it has ...

Filed under: Dessert, Fruit, Grilling, Summer Grilled fruit is a healthy alternative dessert, and easy in the summer when the grill is already going. Almost any fruit can be grilled as long as it holds its shape through the process. smaller fruits can be skewered along with chunks of larger fruits. A side of sauce or cream for dipping is a good ...

Filed under: Restaurants, Trends, Spices, Summer That's right , a wasabi ice pop to function as both a palate-cleanser and a tart dessert. According to this week's New York magazine, Masaharu Morimoto, formerly on the Food Network's television show Iron Chef, just put this popsicle on his menu at Morimoto. It is made with fresh wasabi rather than ...

Filed under: Dessert, Summer When I was a young kid, my family lived in Los Angeles. However, every summer, my mom would pack my sister and me up and we'd head for Philadelphia. We'd spend weeks living with my grandparents, five people in a two-bedroom, one-bathroom apartment (the same apartment I live in now). My dad would stay in LA to work and ...

Filed under: Dessert, America, SummerSome types of kids will eat the icing off the birthday cake and leave the moist, denuded slab of cake lying dead on the plate. They'll pull the crispy bits off the fried chicken and leave the meaty carcass behind. I was the other kind of kid, the one who ate her treats slowly, methodically, from the worst ...

Filed under: Breakfast, Dessert, Recipes, Fruit, Spring, SummerFresh papayas are in season, and I keep finding myself in the grocery store, picking up various specimens and thinking ''what are the chances I could eat all this before it went bad?'' I used to not like fresh papaya. I found them sickly sweet, tasting of cheap perfume with ...

Filed under: Dessert, Recipes, Summer It was extremely hot and humid yesterday. Not only did it reach 88 degrees with high humidity, it was the first truly hot and humid day of the year so it felt even worse. For some bizarre reason I played two hours of tennis in the sun and cooled myself with Tropicana Summer Lemonade (which is quite good, by ...

Filed under: Dessert, On the Blogs, Summer In early May, I told you about the ice cream cupcake roundup that I was co-hosting on Cupcake Project with Scoopalicious. The results from the roundup are in! There are 17 ice cream cupcake recipes to choose from. Everyone tackled the ice cream cupcakes in different ways. Some participants put the ice ...