TODAY IN FOOD: It’s National Garlic Day

April 19th is National Garlic Day, and we’re celebrating with three of our favorite garlic products: – Garlic Pepper Jelly from Aloha From Oregon, a savory jelly that’s great on frankfurters and everything else (and a NIBBLE Top Pick Of The Week) –Garlic Aïoli from Restaurant Lulu, a garlic mayonnaise that’s perfect for for seafood,…
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Zippier Grilled Cheese Sandwich Recipes For National Grilled Cheese Day

Today is a holiday you can really sink your teeth into: National Grilled Cheese Day! In fact, April is also National Grilled Cheese Month—a much tastier concept than Taxes Are Due Month. Grilled cheese sandwiches are one of our favorite comfort foods—for lunch, light supper or snacks. You can cut them in quarters for smaller…
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TODAY IN FOOD: It’s National Chocolate Caramel Day

Celebrate with Béquet‘s Salt Chocolate Caramels, shown here with Espresso and Mocha.   Today is National Chocolate Caramel Day. No arm twisting needed! While the traditional caramel flavoring is vanilla, the buttery bites have been variously flavored with chocolate, coffee, maple, lemon, habañero—whatever appeals to the imagination of the candy maker and palate of the…
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TODAY IN FOOD: It’s Oatmeal Cookie Day

We like oatmeal cookies, so we need no excuse to bake up a batch to celebrate Oatmeal Cookie Day. Our favorite variations are oatmeal chocolate chip, and oatmeal raisin, where we substitute dried cherries for half of the raisins. But other people (specialty food companies, to be specific) have done a darn good job of…
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TODAY IN FOOD: It’s National Coconut Torte Day

March 13th, Coconut Torte Day, begs the question: What is a torte? Is it just a pretentious word for cake, something to make you think the torte is more special than an everyday cake? Nein, mein freund. While torte is the German word for what the British (and Americans) call cake and the French call…
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