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Men don’t tend to swoon over boxes of pretty artisan chocolates. They’re more likely to dig into a chocolate bar. But how about a chocolate cigar? Woodhouse Chocolate (a NIBBLE Top Pick Of The Week) fills milk chocolate cigars with chocolate ganache—flavored with single malt Scotch! And yes, you can “smoke” it along with a…
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We use these melamine mixing bowls in THE NIBBLE’s test kitchen. Here’s a tip from The Competent Cook (reviewed below): When it comes to selecting a mixing bowl, bigger is better. Even if you’re just whisking five tablespoons of vinaigrette, a larger bowl provides a greater range of motion. This means better emulsion and less…
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The Competent Cook: Essential Tools, Techniques, and Recipes for the Modern At-Home Cook by culinary instructor Lauren Braun Costello, is a delight. Even experienced home cooks are not necessarily well-trained cooks. Many people have been doing it “the hard way” since they first picked up the wrong knife—and held it incorrectly. Are you an experienced…
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The size of grapes, camu-camu are vitamin C-laden superfruits. Photo courtesy Acai-Natural-Pain-Free-Health.com. What’s the next superfruit? It’s camu-camu—but you can call it camu, for short. Camu is the grape-size fruit of a small, shrub-like tree that grows in the swampy basins and flood plains of the Amazon rainforest. As ethnobiologists comb the world for fruits,…
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Make “dessert pasta” for your favorite pasta lovers. We have a delicious selection of dessert pasta recipes. After looking at our selection of dessert pasta, reader Katelyn Cronin submitted her own, easy-to-make idea. > National Dessert Day is October 14th. > National Pasta Day is October 17th. RECIPE: VANILLA SHELLS, AN EASY DESSERT…
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