A Pizza & Beer Flight & A Year Of Pizza Holidays

Enjoy different beers with your pizza (photo © Delancey Hollywood [permanently closed]).   Why don’t all pizza restaurants offer a beer tasting flight? Delancey Hollywood has it right: a tasting of four different beers to enjoy with your pizza. If you can’t make it to Hollywood, create the concept at home. How about debuting it…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Cranberry Martini Taste-Off

You can make a Cranberry Martini with cranberry liqueur, or you can use cranberry sauce to make a novelty version of the drink. We adapted this recipe from Cooking Channel mixologists Alie Ward and Georgia Hardstark. Why not have a Cranberry Cocktail Challenge at your holiday celebration? Mix up a batch of Cranberry Sauce Cocktails…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Go A-Wassailing

Christmas punch bowl. Photo courtesy Baccardi.   If you live in a community where you can walk from home to home, how about going a-wassailing? No one has to sing—that’s caroling. But you certainly can combine the two. Line up friends to participate, have everyone make a different punch (or egg nog). Start at one…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Feast Of The Seven Fishes

Seven courses mean smaller portions, like this taste of grilled octopus. Photo courtesy Scrapetta | Beverly Hills.   You’ve still got plenty of time to plan a Feast of the Seven Fishes for Christmas Eve. Known as Esta dei Sette Pesci in Italy, the tradition was brought to the U.S. by Italian immigrants. Some background:…
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