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January 29th is National Corn Chip Day. Before THE NIBBLE, we thought that corn chips and tortilla chips were synonymous. They aren’t, as you’ll see below. The best-known corn chips in America are Fritos, which were created in 1932 by Charles Elmer Doolin of San Antonio. FRITOS HISTORY Dolan was the manager of…
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[1] A new approach to breakfast: egg with grain and veggie (photo and recipe © Good Eggs | San Francisco). [2] Quinoa fried rice topped with an egg (photo © P.F. Chang’s). The quinoa bowl recipe is below, but first: A BRIEF BACKGROUND ON BREAKFAST TRADITIONS There’s a yummy recipe for a…
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Pick up these bright ingredients and make a happy salad. Photo courtesy Evolution Fresh. Weather: Cold. Sky: Gray. Snowstorm: Heading this way. Cheer: This bright, happy salad. We saw the photo and recipe on Evolution Fresh’s Pinterest page, where it was featured as a summer recipe. But all of the ingredients are just…
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[1] Emmer wheat, one of the eight founder crops (photo © Sortengarten). [2] Figs were the first fruit to be cultivated (photos #2 and #3 © Melissa’s Produce). All of the plant-based food we eat first grew wild. When man transitioned from packs of nomadic hunter-gatherers to settled villages of farmers, they learned to…
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[1] No-bake chocolate chip granola bars from Fearless Homemaker. Here’s the recipe (photo © Fearless Homemaker). [2] Cherry, chocolate and cashew granola bars from Love And Zest. Here’s the recipe (photo © Love And Zest). [3] Use Old Fashioned Oats, not quick oats, for granola bar recipes (photo © Quaker Oats). It’s National Granola…
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