Category: Food Facts – Food History

FOOD FUN: A Year Of Crazy Cannoli (A Different Flavor Every Week!)

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[1] Chocolate Amaretto Cannoli (all photos except #5 © Piccione Pastry | St. Louis). [2] Carrot Cake Cannoli. You can port your favorite cake flavor into cannoli cream. [3] Chocolate Cherry Cannoli, its shell dipped in a hard chocolate. [4] Maple Bacon Cannoli, maple cannoli cream topped with a strip of caramelized bacon affixed with…
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Have A Poutine Party For La Poutine Week (+ Recipes)

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[1] Classic poutine (photo © La Poutine Week | Facebook). [2] Gourmet poutine with boar shank, duck confit and foie gras sauce (photo © Brasseur de Montréal). [3] Poutine topped with General Tso’s Chicken (photo © Wok N Roll). [4] Pulled pork poutine (photo © Dirty Dogs). [5] Surf and turf poutine with pork and…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Easy Homemade Applesauce

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Homemade applesauce is one of the undersung delights of the table. Our mom made the best we’ve ever had, cooking McIntosh apples skin-on and puréeing them into velvet with a food mill (the recipe). These days, many of us are looking for simpler solutions. The hack is chunky applesauce: no food mill or elbow grease…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Make Raclette

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[1] Scraping melted raclette cheese onto the plate (photo courtesy Zuercher Cheese | Tumbler). [2] A cheese melter, used in restaurants and in homes of enthusiasts (available at Raclette Corner). [3] A home raclette grill from Swissmar, available on Amazon and elsewhere. [4] Pouring cheese from a Swissmar grill pan (photo courtesy Swissmar). [5] A…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Quinoa, A Complete Protein, & Quinoa Pasta

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[1] White quinoa seeds (photo Methyl Soy | Wikipedia). [2] Red quinoa fried rice topped with an egg, at P.F. Chang’s. [3] Quinoa tabbouheh, at Andina Restaurant | Portland (photo by Eric Cable). [4] Harvesting red quinoa: back-breaking work (photo courtesy Tru Roots). [5] Three styles of quinoa pasta from Pereg Gourmet. [6] Quinoa spaghetti…
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