TIP OF THE DAY: Strawberries For The Holidays

Holiday season is high-calorie season. But you can help your calorie-stressed guests. In addition to serving crudités as an option to the seductive Brie Torte, provide fresh fruit for guests who are watching calories or carbs, don’t eat refined sugar or are doing their best to avoid plunging into your brownies and butter cookies. Fresh…
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RECIPE: Cherry Martini, a “Healthy” Cherry Cocktail

There are cocktails that are not good for you—ones that include heavy cream, simple syrup and other syrups, carbonated soft drinks and even butter. Now, we’re promised a good-for-you solution: a cherry cocktail not only packed with antioxidants, but with anti-hangover properties. According to nutritionist Dr. Christine Greene, tart cherry juice “contains a special class…
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GIFT OF THE DAY: Chocolate Snowmen

White chocolate snowmen filled with dark chocolate ganache. Photo courtesy L.A. Burdick. There is simply no better combination of adorable and delicious this Christmas, than this nonet (that’s a group of nine) of chocolate snowmen from L.A. Burdick. We’ve been in love with Larry Burdick’s handmade chocolate mice and penguins for years. With centers of…
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RECIPE: Celebrate Hanukkah With Latkes

Hanukkah, the Jewish Festival Of Lights, begins at sundown today. In addition to lighting the ceremonial candelabra, the menorah, there are favorite holiday foods. Our personal favorite is the potato latke, or pancake, made from grated potatoes and onion, bound with eggs and fried. You don’t have to be Jewish to love a latke (pronounced…
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