Category: Food Holidays

Chocolate-Drizzle Popcorn Recipe & The Year’s 12+ Popcorn Holidays

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December 16th is National Chocolate-Covered Anything Day. Here’s a treat few people can resist: chocolate-drizzled (or chocolate-covered, if you prefer) popcorn. Some popcorn companies won’t ship it until October, when the weather cools down. But that’s O.K., because it’s easy to make this chocolate popcorn recipe, using a base of home-popped or store-bought popcorn, in…
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FOOD HOLIDAY: Celebrate National Water Quality Month

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August is National Water Quality Month. Whether you rely on tap water, bottled water or both, celebrate it by learning more about this substance without which no life form can live. Clean drinking water (called potable water) is essential to humans and other life forms. However, about a billion people around the world have no…
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Product: Colatura Di Alici, The Secret Sauce

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As ketchup is to Americans, as soy sauce is to Chinese, the favorite condiment in ancient Rome was garum, an anchovy sauce. While the Roman Empire is long gone, a form of garum is alive and well. Today it’s called colatura di alici, or juice of anchovies. (It’s also called anchovy sauce or anchovy syrup;…
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