Category: Food Holidays & More

RECIPE: Sweet And Spicy Thai Chicken Wings

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[1] Spicy Thai chicken wings (photo © Spice Market Restaurants). [2] Thai chiles (photo © Anna Nekrashevich | Pexels). [3] Food art: Thai chiles raining down on chicken wings (photo © FinaMill).   According to the National Chicken Council’s 2012 Wing Report, more than 1.25 billion wing portions will be consumed during Super Bowl weekend.…
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RECIPES: Pork Fajitas With Apple Salsa & National Fajita Day

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[1] Pork fajitas with homemade apple salsa (photo and recipe © U.S. Apple Association). [2] Fajitas are typically made in a skillet, but there’s a sheet pan recipe under the next photo (photo © Good Eggs). [3] Shrimp fajitas, made on a sheet pan. Here’s the recipe from Le Creme de la Crumb (photo ©…
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How To Make A Bánh Mì Sandwich & Banh Mi History

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[1] Bánh-mi, a Vietnamese submarine sandwich on a baguette (photo © Ppy2010ha | Dreamstime). [2] Don’t eat pork? Make a bành mí with any other meat, poultry, or vegan meat (photos #2, #3, and #4 © Good Eggs). [3] Cilantro is the go-to herb for bành mí.   If you live in an area with…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Why Your Favorite Food Products Are Discontinued

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This week we received an email from a reader asking what happened to Bibi Caffe, a line of elegant, imported Italian sodas we reviewed in 2007. She wanted to know why the line was no longer sold in the USA, and asked if there was “any way to get it at all?” If “at all”…
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NEWS: A New Post Office Wedding Cake Stamp

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First class postage goes up tomorrow: to 45 cents for the first half ounce of a letter and 32 cents for standard-size post cards (3″ x 5″ to 4″ x 6″). The U.S. Postal Service has also issued a 65-cent Wedding Cake stamp, to accommodate those thick wedding invitations (up to two ounces). First introduced…
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