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April 1st is National Sourdough Bread Day. (There’s also an entire month devoted to sourdough: Sourdough September, and Real Bread Week, beginning the second last Saturday to the last Sunday in February.) Sourdough bread is the oldest form of leavened bread, born in ancient Egypt, improved in ancient Greek and Roman bakeries, “the” bread of…
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Lovers of green peas (also called English peas and garden peas), you’re in for a treat. Spring is the season. It’s time to serve sides of fresh-steamed green peas and make some delicious fresh pea soup. But what else should you be doing with these bright green jewels? Their sweet flavor and bright color can…
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March 26th is National Spinach Day. Popeye may have enjoyed his spinach straight from the can, but for today, we can come up with 20 better suggestions. Below: > 20 ways to enjoy spinach. > The history of spinach. Elsewhere on The Nibble: > The year’s 7 spinach holidays. > The year’s 60+ vegetable holidays.…
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A double bock beer from Samuel Adams, shown with a scattering of the hops used to brew it (photo by Julia Tomases | © THE NIBBLE). Bock beer with smoked Gouda cheese (photo © Wisconsin Cheese). [3] Weizenbock is a wheat version of German-style bock, a bigger and beefier Dunkelweizen. It’s low on bitterness and…
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Having published a recipe for Irish soda muffins for St. Patrick’s Day, we hadn’t planned to feature Irish soda bread this year. Then, we received this recipe from The Baker Chick and realized how much we wanted to tear into a warm loaf of soda bread and slather it with Kerrygold butter from Ireland. So…
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