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Modern Art Desserts is a call to art lovers who like to make dessert. Photo courtesy Ten Speed Press Happy birthday to Piet Mondrian, the Dutch painter whose “grid” paintings have delighted millions. Pieter Cornelis “Piet” Mondriaan was born on March 7, 1872, grew up to become a primary education teacher and then entered…
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March 6th is National Oreo Day, honoring the world’s most popular cookie. It’s a simple sandwich cookie, yet it’s the passion of many cookie eaters. (Also check out the year’s 44 cookie holidays.) We almost feel like ditching work to celebrate—with Oreo cheesecake, cookies and cream ice cream and an Oreo milkshake. Overkill? Some say…
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[1] A bologna sandwich, long a cold-cut standard. American bologna evolved from Italian mortadella. See the *footnote below (photo © Francesdo Di Bartolo | iStock). [2] Precooked, smoked, or cured sausages are considered cold cuts. Here’s how to put together a Vesperplatte, a German charcuterie board. This one contains Landjäger (left); Dauerwurst, a type of…
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Celebrating the Carnival season, Mardi Gras (“Fat Tuesday”) has been a state holiday in Louisiana since the 19th century. So evoke Mardi Gras and New Orleans with a batch of homemade beignets. National Beignet Day, September 17th, was declared in 2024 by the Ralph Brennan Restaurant Group. WHAT’S MARDI GRAS? The Carnival season…
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March 2nd is National Banana Creme Pie Day. But is it banana creme or banana cream? Crème, pronounced crehm, is the French word for cream. As recipes evolved in the U.S., the trend was to emulate French spellings to give the recipe a cachet. Doesn’t soupe du jour (typically misspelled as soup du jour) sound…
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