RECIPE: Try Chocolate Raisin Panini

Chocolate panini: breakfast, snack or dessert. Photo courtesy Vosges Haut Chocoalt.   Our favorite breakfast bread is pain au chocolat. Literally “chocolate bread,” pain au chocolat is an oblong breakfast roll made of the same light, flaky, yeast-leavened laminated pastry dough as a croissant,* and filled with pieces of dark chocolate; *Pain au chocolat is…
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National Chop Suey Day: What Is Chop Suey & The History Of Chop Suey

Updated August 2026 August 29th is National Chop Suey Day. Chop suey is often described as a Chinese-American invention, but its history is more complicated. The dish has Chinese antecedents, including Taishanese forms known as tsaap slui, while the version that became familiar in U.S. Chinese restaurants developed and evolved in America. Even the hit…
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RECIPE: Make A Hurricane Cocktail

[1] A Hurricane cocktail served in the traditional Hurricane glass, fashioned after a hurricane lamp (photo © Alex 9500 | Panther Media). [2] The Hurricane is so popular that the Hard Rock Cafe in Stockholm has its own printed Hurricane glasses (photo © Bacardi Rum | Facebook). [3] Gosling’s Black Seal dark rum (photo ©…
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