Category: Holidays & Occasions

VALENTINE GIFT: Healthy Black Currants

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First, the truth about currants: Most products called currants are raisins, in a botanical family unrelated in any way to the current, except at the highest, Kingdom, level (*detail addicts, see the footnote at the bottom of this article). As for why real currants were banned from America for 82 years, read the story, a…
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VALENTINE’S DAY: Gourmet Chocolates

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We love getting gifts from Chocolat Céleste (it means “heavenly chocolate” in French), a Minneapolis-based artisan chocolatier. The ganache fillings are delicious and the cocoa-butter transfers that decorate the tops are lovely. If you’re looking for a special box of chocolates for Valentine’s Day, head over to the website and take your pick. Gift boxes…
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VALENTINE’S DAY: Chocolate ‘Gingerbread’ Man Or Girl

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  [1] He’s just a hunk, a hunk of chocolate love (photo © Choclatique. [2] Or bake and decorate your own. You can dip them in chocolate instead of the fancy icing (photo © Taste of Home) [3] St. Valentine—Valentinus in Latin (photo © Communio).   For the Valentine whose heart desires two-and-one-half pounds of…
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TOP PICK OF THE WEEK: Valentine Food Gifts

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One of five alternatives to Valentine chocolate. Photo courtesy Williams-Sonoma.   Situation: You need a great gift for Valentine’s Day. The recipient doesn’t want chocolate candy. Solution: five recommendations for delicious food items that aren’t chocolates. Our Valentine Top Picks include: 1. Godiva Chocolate Vodkas & Chocolate Liqueurs 2. Patron XO Cafe Dark Cocoa, a…
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FOOD HOLIDAY: Monday Morning Quarterbacking The Super Bowl Food

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This got buried under zillions of emails, so we didn’t read it before the Super Bowl. But we find it just as interesting the day after. The “Big Game” has become much more than a football game: It’s the second biggest day for food consumption in the United States, after Thanksgiving. So, says Charles Platkin,…
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