PRODUCT: Tea-rrific, Tea Flavored Ice Cream

Ice cream for tea lovers. Photo courtesy Tea-rrific Ice Cream.   Why a line of tea-flavored ice creams? Because there wasn’t one! One day, the tea-loving founder of Tea-rrific Ice Cream made a batch of ice cream from Earl Grey teas, and saw the eyes of friends and family light up when they tasted the…
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RECIPE: Smoked Salmon Potato Salad

Summer means potato salad, and you can never have too many good potato salad recipes. This one, from Tiffany Ludwig of Zabar’s, uses the stores famous smoked salmon to excellent effect. “With capers, dill and smoked salmon,” says Tiffany, “this simple summer dish transforms brunch or lunch into a spectacular meal.” Tiffany urges that the…
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FOOD FUN: Rubik’s Battenberg Cake

Eat the Rubik’s Cube! Photo courtesy Stasty.com.   For those who loved the Mondrian Cake, here’s a another piece of edible art, which celebrates the birthday of Erno Rubik. Rubik, born July 13, 1944, is a Hungarian inventor, architect and professor of architecture. But his immortality lies in the 1974 invention of the Rubik’s Cube,…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Sea Urchin

Today’s tip is sea urchin: beyond the sushi bar. It was inspired by a story in this month’s Smithsonian Magazine. At the sushi bar, we always order an uni sushi or two. If they were less pricey, we would toss down half a dozen. Uni is the Japanese word for sea urchin, an ancient shellfish,…
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