Apple Salad With Toasted Hazelnuts Recipe For National Apple Month

We can never get enough of a good apple salad. The recipes are crunchy, sweet-tart, and very much seasonal in the fall through the winter months. Red radicchio and orange apricots add fall colors to the mix. We have a collection of apple salad recipes below, and our featured recipe follows the next section. >…
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It’s National Carignan Day – Do You Know Carignan Red Wine

[1] Carignan wine has a dark red color (photo © Tribella Wine). [2] A cluster of Carignan grapes (photo © Vins Rhone). [3] Carignan is a great pairing with poultry. In the photo, it’s roast duck; but it can also be the Thanksgiving turkey (photo © Dean & DeLuca). [4] A glass of Carignan from…
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Try Pig Wings To Celebrate National Pork Month

[1] Barbecue pig wings (photos #1, #3, and #4 © Smithfield Food). [2] Buffalo wings—pig wings, that is (photo © Kingsford). [3] Plain pig wings served with a choice of dips. [4] Grilled pig wings. Here’s the recipe (photo © Real Food By Dad). [5] Raw pig wings.   October is National Pork Month (October…
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What’s A Ragù? It’s World Bolognese Ragù Day!

[1] The real deal: tagliatelle pasta with ragù alla Bolognese. Here’s the recipe (photos #1, #2, and #3 © Tina’s Table). [2] Tagliatelle are a traditional pasta from the Emilia-Romagna and Marche regions of northern Italy. They are long, flat ribbons that are wider than fettuccine but narrower than pappardelle (about 6 mm wide). [3]…
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Calvados, The Finest Apple Brandy From France

From the orchards of Normandy, France comes Calvados, at its simplest an apple brandy. But it is the best apple brandy (or more precisely eau-de-vie*) in the world. Once fer­men­ted, apple juice becomes cider, and, once dis­tilled, the cider becomes a cider eau-de-vie. The cider that begins thew process is pressed from specially grown cider…
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