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Filed under: Slashfood Ate, SummerSummer time is hot. Where I live, it's in the upper 90s every day. It makes me want to tear into a frozen treat at any moment. If summer time makes you crave anything frozen, maybe some of these will get your mouth to watering and your feet headed toward the freezer. 1. Here's a whole half dozen ideas from ...

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: Teas, Snacks, Recipes, How To, SummerAre you an avid tea drinker looking for a different way to enjoy your tea this summer? A lot of tea drinkers go iced in the warm summer months, some even adding lemonade to their iced tea, but there is an even colder way to enjoy your tea in the summer months if you enjoy green tea: ...

Filed under: Guilty Pleasures, Summer Can you tell a Drumstick from a King Cone or a ID your favorite brand of chocolate eclair? Take our coolest quiz yet, and then come back to share your score, or reminisce about your favorite frozen confections. Frozen Treats ID Quiz Joe DiStefano goes kooky for Creamsicles. Emily Matchar crunches into a ...

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: Spirit of Summer, Summer I was in NYC the past week to attend some food and cocktail events and to tape some spots about summer time cocktails and spirits for a radio show, during the first heat wave of the summer. For several days the temps were in the mid to high 90's and the whole city was in meltdown. Everyone walked around ...

Filed under: America, Celebrations, SummerFor ten summers, I attended an all girls sleep-away camp in the Pocono Mountains. For seven years as a camper and three years as a counselor, I lived for sticky poolside days and cool nights snuggling around the campfire. I loved every minute of camp. Even when the job wheel sentenced me to toilet duty or ...

Filed under: Summer I think Popsicles were one of my favorite summertime treats. Of course I liked ice cream sandwiches and the like, but there was always just something about classic Popsicles. The grape flavor was always my favorite. I loved the flavor, and the color they left on my tongue. I remember having to lick off the ice coating to ...

Filed under: Summer As I write this post, I am sucking on a plastic stick. It's all that remains of the apple juice popsicle that I made when I started to think about writing this post. Apple juice pops were one of my favorite childhood summer treats. Sometimes years go by when I forget about them, but then on days like today, I dig out my old ...