Category: Food Holidays & More

TIP OF THE DAY: Beyond Ants On A Log

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[1] Ants On A log have friends: like these caterpillars and snails on a log (photo courtesy Woman’s Day: photo Steve Giralt; prop stylist: Megan Hedgpeth; food styling: WD Food Dept). [2] Hummus logs, with either celery, fennel or cucumber logs (photo courtesy Cava). [3] Classic Ants On A Log, given a classy treatment: angled…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Different Cheeses For Pizza

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September 5th is National Cheese Pizza Day. Pizza is one of America’s favorite foods, tied at the top with hamburgers. In the U.S., there are more than 70,000 pizzerias. A standard visit to a pizzeria will get you a layer of mozzarella on top of the crust, plus toppings of choice. But what if your…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Peach Ice Cream

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Today is the last day of August, the last day of National Peach Month, and the last day—or rather, weekend—we’ll have to make peach ice cream. We’ve been meaning to it make all summer. Growing up, peach was our favorite ice cream flavor. Available seasonally at Howard Johnson’s, we indulged as often as we could…
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FOOD FUN: Waffle Fry Sliders

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Nick of Dude Foods is nothing if not creative. These Waffle Fry Sliders are an example. “The only real problem I came across when making my Waffle Fry Sliders was finding decently sized waffle fries,” says Nick. “I bought a bag of frozen fries from the grocery store and upon opening it I noticed that…
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FOOD FUN: Hexagon Orange Garnish

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How often have you had a cocktail with an orange wheel—a horizontal slice of orange? How would you feel about another shape? An unnamed Japanese bartender cut hexagonal orange garnishes for an Aperol Spritz. They look great, don’t they? The problem is, the oranges were shaped in a hexagonal mold while growing (like the Japanese…
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