Category: Food Facts – Food History

TIP OF THE DAY: Eat More Legumes

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Top: A chopped salad with spring peas. You can substitute sugar snap peas, or any other legume. Photo courtesy The Foster’s Market Cookbook. Bottom: This creative salad wraps leafy greens in prosciutto, with a side of cannellini beans in vinaigrette.   Nutritionist advise that we eat more legumes. But most people don’t know what a…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Diet Baked Apples

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Diet baked apples: Make them in the oven or microwave, eat them warm or chilled. Photo © J. Volodina | IST.   When you’re trying to cut back, dessert is the trickiest course to navigate. Personally, we avoid all “reduced calorie” versions of fattening desserts. It’s better to have a small piece of the good…
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Eggnog History: Know Your Eggnog!

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Eggnog or egg nog is a descendant of milk-and-wine punches that had long been part of European celebrations when colonists arrived in the Americas. Rum, a New World distillation, enabled a spirited substitution for the wine. And eggnog history? Eggnog became a popular wintertime drink throughout Colonial America. Then as now, people loved the rich,…
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Christmas Cupcakes From Scratch Or Decorate Store-Bought

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December 15th is National Cupcake Day (there are 8 more cupcake holidays). When a holiday like this falls right before Christmas, there’s only one way to go: Christmas eat cupcakes. We have great ideas for you, but first, for your consideration: > The history of cupcakes is below. > The history of cake. > The…
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Holiday Oysters With Cranberry Cocktail Sauce & More Recipes

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[1] Make cranberry cocktail sauce for the holidays (photo courtesy Willapa Oysters, a NIBBLE Top Pick Of The Week). [2] A classic cocktail sauce with its favorite partner, shrimp (photo © Sheri Silver | Unsplash). [3] Oysters on the half shell with mignonette sauce. The recipe is below (photo © Whole Foods Market). [4] A…
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