NEWS: Dark Chocolate Isn’t “Healthy”

Sorry, Charlie: You’re not “packed with healthy antioxidants.” At last—a medical journal has come out with what THE NIBBLE has been claiming for the past two years: Dark chocolate is not “health food.” Contrary to all of the claims touting the “antioxidant benefits of chocolate,” The Lancet, published in the U.K. and one of the…
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ON OUR RADAR: Interesting Nibbles From The Past Week

– The 10 best foods you (probably) aren’t eating and why you should.- This fake Gordon Ramsay blog really cracks us up. Warning: Many f-words. – Teena is cooking her way through the Gourmet cookbook and is 46.8% complete.   We’re big fans of Gordon Ramsay and all of his TV shows, including Hell’s Kitchen.…
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FOOD TIP OF THE DAY: Gourmet Dieting

A great salsa is not only delicious but very low in calories. One of our favorite lines of salsa is Jardine’s, and one of our favorite Jardine’s salsas is the Bobo Salsa, shown above.   If your New Year’s resolutions include dieting, you can still enjoy many exciting specialty foods. We review several “diet” products…
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NEWS: Flatbread On The Rise

Just ten years ago, if you asked someone to name a flatbread, they’d probably say lavasch (an Armenian cracker bread, popularized as sesame-encrusted strips sold under the brand name Nejaime’s Lavasch)—if they could name anything at all. Today, we look at flatbread in a much broader scope—and it’s a rapidly-growing segment of the $14 billion…
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NEWS: Weak Dollar Forces Importers To Search Beyond Europe For Specialty Foods

Sometimes the answer is to buy California olive oil instead of imports. But for certain products, like Fleur de Sel, shown above, there are no U.S. substitutes. Photo courtesy of Saltworks.us.   It’s no surprise that due to the weak dollar, along with higher shipping costs, imports from Europe and other parts of the world…
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