Category: Food Holidays & More

NEWS: Artisan Chocolatier Pierre Marcolini Goes Corporate With Nestlé

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From left: Peter Brabeck-Lethmathe, Chairman and CEO, Nestlé S.A., Lars Olofsson, CMO, Nestlé S.A. and Pierre Marcolini, pointing to Marcolini’s Holiday Star And Truffles, coincidentally one of our recommended chocolate holiday gifts. A nice-looking group, but can’t Nestlé photographers do better than these “natural” point-at-the-goods shots?   One of our favorite artisan chocolatiers on earth,…
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CONTEST: Win Solomon’s Gourmet Chocolate Chip Cookies

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Chocolate peanut butter chip cookies (or your favorite chip flavor) are this week’s prize.   This week, THE NIBBLE’s Gourmet Giveaway is giving away two dozen of America’s favorite cookie—chocolate chip! These yummy cookies are from Solomon’s Gourmet Cookies of Chicago (certified kosher by CRC—read our full review). The jumbo cookies are available in regular…
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TRENDS: Umami, The Fifth Taste

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The weekend edition of The Wall Street Journal devoted a lot of space to an article called “A New Taste Sensation,” umami. However, this was news two years ago when Anna Kasabian and David Kasabian wrote their seminal book on the topic, The Fifth Taste: Cooking with Umami. It was the talk of gastronomy circles,…
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