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A new way to eat your veggies! Photo courtesy Herr Foods. Americans love salty snacks, as evidenced by the never-ending stream of new chips on the market. From Herr’s, an estimable regional potato chip producer, comes a tasty new line in their Good Natured Selects series of baked crisps: gluten-free veggie chips called Vegetable…
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It’s asparagus season: The bright green stalks are at their freshest, most flavorful and affordable. In addition to the familiar green, look for purple and white asparagus. In the April-June window of fresh American-grown asparagus, you can simply steam fresh stalks to al dente—so tasty they don’t even require butter or lemon mayonnaise. Low in…
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Many of us who love to cook get ideas from creative restaurant chefs. It’s their job to present new and different preparations to tempt customers. It could be as simple as produce (NB the onslaught of kale, first in restaurants, then in our homes). What’s next? Nation’s Restaurant News polled nearly 1,300 chefs in its…
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Use hummus as the base of a salad. Photo courtesy Chalk Point Kitchen | NYC. Last month we featured 20 different ways to use hummus. But we left off at least one: this hummus salad. This appetizer concept, by Executive Chef Joe Isidori of Chalk Point Kitchen in New York City, piles crunchy veggies…
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Hello Kitty, whose “real” name is Kitty White, is a cartoon character produced by the Japanese company Sanrio. She is a white Japanese bobtail cat with a red hair bow. From her first appearance on a vinyl coin purse in Japan in 1974 (it arrived in the U.S. in 1976), Hello Kitty exploded into a…
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