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[1] Pork fajitas with homemade apple salsa (photo and recipe © U.S. Apple Association). [2] Fajitas are typically made in a skillet, but there’s a sheet pan recipe under the next photo (photo © Good Eggs). [3] Shrimp fajitas, made on a sheet pan. Here’s the recipe from Le Creme de la Crumb (photo ©…
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Bánh-mi, a Vietnamese submarine sandwich on a baguette. Photo © Ppy2010ha | Dreamstime. A BRIEF HISTORY OF BANH MI SANDWICHES When Europeans colonized Asia, they brought Western bread to the table. In French Indochina, Vietnam, that emblem of French cuisine, the baguette, was introduced; as were sandwiches. Baguette-based sandwiches were called bánh mì (pronounced…
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Today is National Fast Food Day, a very American holiday. The U.S. has more than 300 fast food chains, representing 40% of the nation’s total restaurant sales. Americans spend more than $110 billion on fast food annually, on cuisine that ranges from barbecue, fried chicken and pizza to Chinese food and Tex-Mex. A fast food…
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October 30th is National Candy Corn Day. According to the National Confectioners Association, more than 20 million pounds of candy corn are sold during the Halloween season. The iconic Halloween confection was created in the late 1880s by George Roniger of the Wunderlee Candy Company, in Philadelphia. The first three-layer candy, it was made laboriously,…
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Candy apples are a Halloween favorite (photo © Sevenmarie Creative Commons CC-BY-2.0). Yesterday we published a recipe for caramel apples, also known as toffee apples. Today we present candy apples: the same concept, but with a hard, crackly red candy coating instead of the softer caramel. The practice of coating fruit in sugar syrup…
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