RECIPE: Classic Peach Pie

To us, summer means fresh peach pie—a flavor that’s not easy to come by commercially. To enjoy its pleasures, you’ve got to bake your own. When summer peaches are ripe and juicy, they don’t need a whole lot else to make a terrific pie. In this recipe, an optional tablespoon of dark rum “takes it…
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S’mores Pie, Ice Cream Cake & More For National S’mores Day

[1] A no-bake s’mores pie (photo © Brown Eyed Baker). [2] For a change, substitute pound cake for the graham cracker s’mores crust (photo © American Egg Board). [3] These mini-marshmallows are vegan and absolutely delicious (photo © Dandies). [4] The recipe calls for chocolate ice cream, but you don’t have to use plain chocolate.…
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FOOD 101: Cooking History

Be grateful for your stove and microwave! Photo courtesy Sirgy.com.   Do you like sashimi and steak tartare? Man has been wandering Earth for some 200,000 years, but the general use of fire began only about 40,000 to 50,000 years ago. Until then, man ate his food raw.* Neanderthals discovered how to deliberately create fire.…
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FOOD HOLIDAY: National Rice Pudding Day

Here’s a fun take for National Rice Pudding Day: rice pudding tartlets. These are made in rustic style by Frog Hollow Farm. You don’t need tartlet pans that turn out fluted, rigid tart shells. Instead, just roll the dough and fold the edges over the filling—the style known as galette. Rice pudding replaces the traditional…
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RECIPE: White Gazpacho, The Original Recipe

  GAZPACHO HISTORY A specialty of Spain and Portugal, gazpacho is a cold raw vegetable peasant soup originating in Andalusia, the southernmost region of Spain. Originally made from old bread, olive oil and garlic, the recipe was in use when the Romans conquered the Iberian Peninsula (218-19 B.C.E.). The name is of Arabic origin, and…
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