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Looking for an easy, fun kids project for the Thanksgiving holiday? Make a basic popcorn ball recipe and shape into drumsticks rolled in brown sugar and cinnamon, or add raisins to make festive flint corn. Plus, since it’s National Peanut Butter Month, a PB Popcorn Balls recipe, below. They’re flavored with both PB and peanut…
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[1] Sotol can be drunk with salt and lime, similar to tequila (photo © Cristian Rojas | Pexels). [2] Hacienda de Chihuahua is the leading producer of fine sotol. Sotol plata (a.k.a. blanco, joven, or silver) is not aged. It goes straight from distillation to the bottle (photos #2, #3, #4, #5, and #16 ©…
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The Cobb salad was invented late one evening in 1937 when Bob Cobb, owner of The Brown Derby restaurant in Hollywood, was scrounging in the kitchen’s refrigerator for a snack. He grabbed a head of iceberg lettuce, an avocado, some romaine, watercress, tomatoes, a cold breast of chicken, a hard-cooked egg, chives, blue cheese and…
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It was hard to put down the bag of Apple Cinnamon Chicharrones (a.k.a. fried pork rinds, i.e., fried pork skin with the fat removed*) from Southern Recipes Small Batch. We had to call someone into our office to remove the bag before we polished it off. Chicharrones (chee-cha-ROAN-ace—roll the double “r”) are a popular snack…
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Tavern-style pizza was created in Chicago as a free bar snack (see tavern-style’s history below). While the city may be known for its hearty deep dish pizza*, the thin crust, tavern-style pie is what Chicagoans turn to most often. Tavern-style pizza is a round pie with a very thin crust. The crust is slimmer, lighter,…
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