GIFT: Party Favor, Stocking Stuffer

We love Burt’s Bees products. We’ve never found a better lip balm. The beeswax the brand is famous for is both soothing, packed with beneficial nutrients and stick-to-your-lips. This holiday season, the company has created an exclusive with Target stores: Burt’s Bees Pumpkin Spice Lip Balm. As a party favor or a stocking stuffer, everyone,…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Holiday Dessert Bar

After a big holiday feast, instead of serving dessert at the table, consider setting up a dessert bar. Guests can digest the main meal a bit, and then help themselves at their own pace. They can also cut slivers of more than one dessert. In addition to pies, cake, cobbler, cookies, fruit and other bounty,…
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GIFT: Harney Tea In Holiday Flavors

For Thanksgiving and Christmas gifts, there are seasonal flavors and boxed gift sets for the tea lover. Among the finest are these, from Harney & Sons, include: Cranberry Autumn, flavored black tea is a full-bodied brew, sweet and tart with dried cranberries and orange peel. Pomegranate Oolong, bright, floral. Just open the tin and the…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Holiday Sugar

You can buy Christmas sugar cubes decorated with tiny candy canes, gingerbread men, reindeer and snowmen. Or, you can serve something more subtle in appearance and sophisticated in flavor: a bowl of spiced vanilla sugar. You can make it or buy it. To buy it, head over to Silk Road Spices, where handmade vanilla sugar*…
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RECIPE: Cranberry Orange Margarita For Thanksgiving & Christmas

If you crowd prefers Margaritas to other cocktails, that’s no surprise—the Margarita has been America’s favorite cocktail for some time (source: The Beverage Information Group). For the holiday season, Sauza Tequila tweaked the recipe to create a holiday version: Cranberry Orange Margarita. Since Margaritas already include orange liqueur, they substituted cranberry juice for the lime…
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