FOOD HOLIDAY: National Homemade Cookie Day

Start preheating the oven: October 1st is National Homemade Cookie Day. Here are some of our favorite cookie recipes. We could do chocolate chip, America’s favorite cookie; but we’re really in the mood for these Gingerbread Bars With Cream Cheese Icing. In honor of the month of October—the beginning of “pumpkin season”—we’ll add some pumpkin…
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TIP OF THE DAY & FOOD HOLIDAY: National Kale Day

Three stems of curly kale with one of red Russian kale. Photo courtesy NationalKaleDay.org.   Yesterday we focused on kale’s cousin, kohlrabi. But today is National Kale Day. If you’re one of the few better-eating-oriented food enthusiasts who hasn’t yet tried kale, today’s the day. This is the second annual National Kale Day, established as…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Make Better Coffee…& Mocha Truffles

One hundred million Americans drink coffee daily. Sixty-eight percent of us have a cup within the first hour of waking up. (Here are more coffee statistics.) So for all of us making our first cup at home—from ground beans, not K-Cups—here are some helpful tips from Melitta Coffee: 1. Buy coffee weekly. Once coffee is…
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FOOD HOLIDAY: U.S. Coffee Drinking Statistics For National Coffee Day

How about a cup or two of coffee drinking statistics for National Coffee Day, September 29th? This survey was conducted in July by Live Science. For starters, about 83% of adults drink coffee in the U.S., the world’s largest consumer of coffee, up from 78% a year earlier, according to the National Coffee Association’s 2013…
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FOOD 101: What Are Hops?

September 28th is Drink Beer Day. Only a few ingredients are needed to make beer; typically, barley malt, unmalted grain, hops, yeast and water. We were explaining to a friend that our favorite beers are heavily hopped IPAs. “What exactly are hops?” he asked. We turned to Samuel Adams, the pioneering craft beer brewer, and…
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