TIP OF THE DAY: What To Do With Tea You Don’t Like

What can you do if you’ve purchased tea bags or loose tea and you don’t really love the flavor? Turn them into iced tea. Whether it’s black, oolong, green, white or herbal, a tea that’s flat, has too much added flavor or has flavors you don’t like may taste better to you iced. Once chilled,…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Scotch And Ice Cream, Gin And Sorbet

Drizzle ice cream with Scotch and serve. Photo by Elke Dennis | Fotolia.   Years ago, a friend who was a great cook prepared an elaborate dinner for us: intricate courses of beef, fish, and fowl with layers of flavor. We anticipated something equally elaborate for dessert. So we raised an eyebrow when he scooped…
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RECIPE: Ice Cream Brownie Sundae With Scotch Whisky

Like ice cream? Brownies? Scotch whisky? Here’s a dessert for you! The Macallan Brownie Sundae was created for a private tasting dinner of The Macallan Scotch at Michael’s Genuine Food & Drink in Miami. Executive Pastry Chef Hedy Goldsmith took note of the guests’ enthusiasm for the dessert and put it on the menu for…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Wine With Oysters

A great treat: oysters with a variety of white wines. Photo by Nathan Maxfield | IST.   We love oysters, so we hosted an extensive wine-and-oyster celebration last Friday, National Oyster Day (August 5th). When we began eating oysters (way back in our college years), the de rigeur wine was a crisp Chablis from northern…
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GOURMET GIVEAWAY: Win A Heinz 57 Picnic Basket

We really need your opinion on the design of our new e-commerce website. Our friends at Heinz have donated two picnic baskets to entice you to complete the two-minute survey: a classic picnic basket filled with bottles of tangy Heinz 57 Sauce with a special 100th anniversary label, plus: A checkered tablecloth to set the…
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