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January 29th is National Corn Chip Day. Before THE NIBBLE, we thought that corn chips and tortilla chips were synonymous. They aren’t, as you’ll see below. The best-known corn chips in America are Fritos, which were created in 1932 by Charles Elmer Doolin of San Antonio. > The year’s 90 snack holidays. > The year’s…
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[1] A new approach to breakfast: egg with grain and veggie (photo and recipe © Good Eggs | San Francisco). [2] Quinoa fried rice topped with an egg (photo © P.F. Chang’s). The quinoa bowl recipe is below, but first: A BRIEF BACKGROUND ON BREAKFAST TRADITIONS There’s a yummy recipe for a…
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[1] Emmer wheat, one of the eight founder crops (photo © Sortengarten). [2] Figs were the first fruit to be cultivated (photos #2 and #3 © Melissa’s Produce). All of the plant-based food we eat first grew wild. When man transitioned from packs of nomadic hunter-gatherers to settled villages of farmers, they learned to…
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