Category: Food Facts – Food History

RECIPE: Broccoli Madness Salad & The History Of Broccoli

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For green fare on St. Patrick’s Day, try this very green broccoli salad from Souplantation. It has plenty of added ingredients (bacon! raisins! cashews!) to make it a crowd pleaser. National Broccoli Day Is March 22nd. > The history of broccoli is below.     RECIPE: BROCCOLI MADNESS SALAD Ingredients For 6 Side Salad Servings…
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Easy Grasshopper Pie Recipes For St. Pat’s

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Grasshopper Pie is a crème de menthe chiffon pie with a chocolate cookie crust. It was invented in the U.S. in the 1950s following the popularity of the Grasshopper Cocktail, a minty chocolate dessert cocktail made from cream, green crème de menthe and white crème de cacao. Some recipes make it a frozen pie with…
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It’s National Frozen Food Day. Who Invented Frozen Food?

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While fresh is fashionable, we can’t ignore the importance of frozen foods today, National Frozen Food Day. While March 6th is one day to celebrate, the entire month of March is National Frozen Food Month. Frozen food revolutionized the way Americans consume food. First came the joy of off-season fruits and vegetables (which are tastier…
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TREND: Sriracha, The New “It” Flavor

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Each year, we notice a hot new food trend. Often it’s a new flavor, blasting through everything from salad dressing to popcorn. Notable past flavor explosions like chipotle, jalapeño, and wasabi introduced new kinds of heat to the American palate. The current “it” flavor seems to be sriracha.     WHAT IS SRIRACHA? Sriracha, pronounced…
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Chocolate Chip Banana Bread Recipe For National Banana Bread Day

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[1] Banana bread with chocolate chips and nuts. We highly recommend the optional chocolate glaze in the recipe (not shown) (photo © Lulu Durand | iStock Photo). [2] Don’t want chocolate chips or nuts? How about blueberries? Here’s the recipe from Driscoll’s (photo © Driscoll’s). [3] Fancy banana bread: baked in a rectangular pan, topped…
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