TIP OF THE DAY: Eat & Drink, Or Give A Gift, For The Cure

October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Some food and drink companies are doing their part to generate research dollars for the cure, making a contribution from sales of special editions of their products. The packaging—or sometimes the food itself, like the chocolates in the photo—bears the the National Breast Cancer Foundation’s pink ribbon. For…
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PRODUCT: Bertolli Premium Meal Soups For Two

Beefy goodness: our favorite from the new Bertolli Premium Meal Soups. Photo courtesy Bertolli.   Have you seen the “soup opera” chefs in TV commercials, extolling the virtues of Bertolli Premium Hearty Soups? The soups look just as good in person as they do on TV, and live up to the advertising claims that they’re…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Try Dragon Fruit

Dragon fruit looks so summery. Who’d think this exotic tropical charmer is a fall fruit—not to mention the fruit of a genus of cactus? Lightly sweet and pleasantly crunchy, dragon fruit, also called pitaya, is too alluring to pass by. Pitaya is the fruit’s indigenous name in its home territory, Central America. Dragon fruit, which…
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HALLOWEEN: Skull & Crossbones Tumbler

The “Crossbones” tumbler is fun on Halloween and the other 364 days of the year. Photo courtesy Copco.   Want to celebrate Halloween in a way that isn’t fattening? We’re partial to this “Crossbones” Sierra Cold Tumbler from Copco, featuring a subtle skull and crossbones motif on the plastic gripper (it’s hard to see in…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Tips For Storing Chocolate

If you only occasionally bake with chocolate, it’s easy to end up with leftover blocks and bars. How long can you keep the chocolate? Dark chocolate can last for two years or more. Milk chocolate and white chocolate should be kept for under a year, because the milk content in them deteriorates. Store chocolate tightly…
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