RECIPE: Panzanella & Fruit Salad

Fruit salad with bread (panzanella salad). Photo © Hannah Kaminsky | Bittersweet Blog.   Our colleague Hannah Kaminsky spent the summer in California, enjoying the wealth of produce that sunny state provides. “As a little ode to my Californian summer, it was only fitting to gather up a small sampling of what I had on…
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TIP OF THE DAY: How To Decipher Food Product Labels

How confusing is the verbiage on the front of a box, bag, jar or can of food? Actually, it can be pretty misleading. It’s called marketing: Companies want you to choose their product over the competition, so they do what they can to hype on their packaging (most purchase decisions are made at the “point…
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PRODUCT: Chad’s, The Best Raspberry Jam?

Utah’s Bear Lake is a beauty: a natural freshwater lake on the Utah-Idaho called the “Caribbean of the Rockies” for its turquoise-blue color. Although the lake lies relatively near the Oregon Trail, which was traveled by many pioneers between 1836 and the 1850s, it seems that none of traveled south enough to find the lake.…
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