Category: Food Holidays & More

The History Of Yorkshire Pudding For National Yorkshire Pudding Day

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October 13th is National Yorkshire Pudding Day. Yorkshire Pudding is neither sweet, a dessert, or what Americans think of as pudding. In fact, it’s very much like a popover, an Americanized version of Yorkshire Pudding. (The history of Yorkshire pudding is below.) The difference: Popovers are baked in individual molds (like muffins), usually coated with…
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FOOD FUN: Coconut Cake & A Palm Tree Cookie

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Bathing suit optional. Photo courtesy Fishtail | NYC.   This inspiration comes from one of our favorite seafood restaurants, David Burke’s Fishtail in New York City. If you’re missing the warmth of summer, evoke the tropics with this creative dessert: an individual coconut cake garnished with “drunken” mango salsa (add rum to a sweet mango…
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FOOD FUN: The Banana Police

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Here are two of the amazing banana dishes we found on TheBananaPolice.com. There’s quite a selection of them, turned into create fruit plates and cereal. And there are simpler versions that any of us could create. See them all at TheBananaPolice.com: boats, butterflies, cars, dogs, dolphins, elephants, horses, snails, sunsets, trees and more. The website…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Buy A Fair Trade Product

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October is National Fair Trade Month, so today’s tip is to buy something that’s fairly traded. Most people don’t understand Fair Trade. One of the reasons is that, unlike the USDA Certified Organic Seal that appears on all organic product packaging—regardless of the particular certifying agency (there are certifiers in every state)—the different Fair Trade-related…
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Bake This Angel Food Cake Recipe For National Angel Food Cake Day

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[1] Angel food cake with strawberry glaze (photo © American Egg Board). [2] Berries are a perfect garnish for angel food cake (photo © Anna Ozerova | Dreamstime). [3] Angel food cake is baked in a tube pan because the hollow center provides support for the delicate, egg-white based batter as it rises, preventing it…
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