Boxed Water: A Better Choice For World Water Day & Every Day

[1] Boxed Water™ is an environmentally-friendly alternative to plastic water bottles (all photos © Boxed Water). [2] In addition to plain water, there are four fruit flavors. [3] Go dino with Jurassic World-themed cartons. [4] Boxed Water is available in several sizes.   There’s reason to celebrate with Boxed Water™. Global Recycling Day is March…
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Vermouth Spritz Cocktail Recipe For National Vermouth Day

Unless you drink a glass of straight vermouth, there’s no easier way to celebrate National Vermouth Day than this Vermouth Spritz recipe. (The holiday is also known as World Vermouth Day.) A vermouth spritz, you say? But isn’t vermouth used in a Martini? The number-one use of white vermouth in the U.S. is in a…
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Peanut Butter Pucks: Gourmet Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups

[1] Recchiuti Peanut Butter Pucks, the best peanut butter cups you’ll find (photos #1, #2, #3, #4 © Recchiuti Confections). [2] What’s inside the pucks: homemade peanut butter. [3] Peanut Butter Pearls, for when you only want a tiny taste. [4] Casting pearls before palates. [5] The original salted caramel dates back to France in…
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Amber Apple Pie Recipe, A Traditional Irish Apple Pie

Today’s recipe celebrates St. Patrick’s Day: a traditional Irish apple pie called an amber apple pie. The recipe is below. Apples have been an important source of food in Ireland for thousands of years. Apple trees are one of the few that grow well in the difficult Irish climate. While crabapples are the variety native…
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Food Fun: Hot & Spicy Fish “Pizza” Recipe With Sambal Oelek

[2] Rockfish with sambal sauce (photo © Gunsmoke Restaurant | Hollywood) . [2] Different species of rockfish, all from California (photo © Calder Deyerle | Monterey Bay Fisheries Trust). [3] Sambal olek, Indonesian hot chili paste. Here’s a recipe (photo © McCormick).   Well it isn’t actually a pizza, but doesn’t this California rockfish from…
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