PRODUCT: Limited Edition Papaya Mango Snapple

Papaya Mango is the new limited editionSnapple tea. Photo courtesy Snapple.   Last year, Snapple sponsored an episode of Celebrity Apprentice that allowed Bret Michaels to create one of our favorite Diet Snapple flavors ever, Trop-A-Rocka. The layering of mango, pear and cinnamon was the most complex Snapple flavor we’d come across. And it’s not…
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NEWS: The First Coca-Cola Recipe

Asa Candler, who purchased the Coca-Cola recipe from John Pemberton in 1887 for $2,300, worked on the original recipe to turn it from a medicinal tonic to a soft drink. Candler was maniacal about protecting his secret recipe. He demanded that no one ever write it down. All labels were removed from ingredient containers. Staff…
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TOP PICK OF THE WEEK: Chef Gerard & Chuck’s Salsa Verde

Salsa verde is made from the green tomatilloberry, which is not a tomato. Photo byHannah Kaminsky | THE NIBBLE.   We’re a nation of salsa lovers; but much of that is salsa roja, red salsa. In Mexico, the land from which we obtained our love of salsa, it’s the opposite. Only the northern states of…
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