Category: Beverages

PRODUCT: Watermelon “Keg” Tap With Watermelon Agua Fresca

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A melon tap turns any large, seedless watermelon into an punch bowl, ideal for filling with watermelon-based beverages. Simply hollow out the melon, insert the tap and fill it with your beverage of choice. In addition to a refreshing drink, you give guests the fun of dispensing their drinks from a watermelon. (In the fall,…
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RECIPE: Salted Watermelon Milkshake

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For National Watermelon Day, August 3rd, try a salted watermelon milkshake. Salt with watermelon? Actually, as a pinch of salt helps most foods, it’s an old trick to bring out more flavor (here, sweetness) in the watermelon. This recipe is courtesy of The Milk Shake Factory in Pittsburgh. It requires watermelon sorbet; but if you…
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FOOD FUN: Soda, Sangria Style & The History Of Club Soda & Soda Pop

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[1] Club soda with a slice of blood orange (photo © Polar Seltzer). [2] A “sangria soda” of Sprite and peaches (photo courtesy Melissa’s). [3] A Victorian soda siphon, called a seltzogene or gasogene (photo Sobebunny | Wikipedia). [4] Bottlers branded their siphons with their names and graphics. Here are more antique soda siphons (photo…
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