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I Like Fish… I Like Tacos…


Posted by Wayne Nelson on Get Your Grill On.
…so it only makes sense that I like fish tacos. I had my first ones at a roadside joint in Texas, the type of place that only locals went to, and most of the food was purchased to-go. The fish was fresh from the Gulf of Mexico […]

Rachael Ray’s Furi Knives


Posted by Madeline Miller on The Cook’s Kitchen
It’s easy to get excited about the Share Our Strength knife trio endorsed by Rachael Ray.  First, a portion of the proceeds from the set benefit a great cause - Share Our Strength, which is devoted to fighting childhood hunger in America.  How many knife sets can you […]

Back to College


Posted by Solange Berchemin on Paper Palate
Already, I hear you say, it will be no time before they leave home again to their respective universities and colleges, resuming their busy students’ lives; the question is “WHAT WILL THEY EAT THEN?” Here is a book whose title is a bit of a mouthful but that will ease parents’ worries: […]

Another “Choice” for Organic Tea


Posted by Carrie Havranek on A Nice Cuppa
The Japanese are onto something with their tea ceremonies. Tea tends to be process-oriented and can be a bit fussy when you are pressed for time, but when you have a few extra moments, the attention to detail it requires slows you down. This, in turn, brings a […]

How to Lose Respect: Wine Spectator Style


Posted by Sarah Caron on The Spirit World
This is the problem with the ‘blogosphere’. It’s a lazy person’s journalism. No one does any real research, but rather they just slap some hyperlinks up and throw a little conjecture at the wall, and presto! you get some hits and traffic…
- James Molesworth, Wine Spectator Senior Editor […]

The Coffee Love Continues!


Posted by Abbey Lile-Taylor on A Nice Cuppa.

flapjack & coffee cup, by wine_scribbler
sen1, by Sarah::Sarah’s Cucina Bella
La Presentacion Final, by Maese Julio

Morning Blend, by Xenotar28
Keep that Coffee Love Coming!

Kid-Made Cupcakes


Posted by Kelby Carr on Kids Cuisine.
There are some things kids just love to make. Once we bought my daughter a cupcake making kit, she harassed me incessently until we pulled it out and made some cupcakes. We did everything the manual way that we could, including mixing with an old-fashioned mixer.It was actually a […]

Thrifty Dish: Normandy Pork from Delicious Magazine


Posted by Andrew Barrow on Paper Palate
Thrift is the by-word at the moment; that credit crunch/rising food and energy prices thang that everyone is talking about but doesn’t really seem to have much effect on those that I know. Still this month’s Delicious supplement - A month of Family Meals for Under a £5 - is […]

The Return of Blue Smarties


Posted by Sylvie Shirazi on Sugar Savvy
No, I’m not referring to the rolls of fruit flavored pressed sugar candies produced by Ce De Candy, Inc., that most Americans associate with the name Smarties, but rather, to the milk chocolate candies in a crisp sugar shell that the rest of the world knows and loves as […]

(Long Overdue) Tales Recap


Posted by Sonja Kassebaum on The Spirit World
The week we spent in New Orleans last month was our first full week away from our distillery since we opened in 2005. Needless to say, there was tons of catchup to do once we got back from Tales of the Cocktail, and we were exhausted (in a […]

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