Category: Food Holidays & More

RECIPES: Gourmet Grilled Cheese Sandwiches ~ With Strawberries Or Brussels Sprouts

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April is National Grilled Cheese Month, a sandwich we love so much we could eat a different recipe every day. We’re beginning our “grilled cheese coverage” with two creative recipes from Vermont Farmstead Cheese Company, an artisan creamery. The first gourmet grilled cheese sandwiches is called the French Connection, because it uses the creamery’s Lillé…
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A Recipe For Lemon Chiffon Cake Day With Candied Lemon Peel

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March 29th is National Lemon Chiffon Cake Day. A recipe that isn’t seen much anymore, it was a favorite of our mother’s. She baked them in a tube pan and garnished the light, lemony slices with sliced strawberries and whipped cream. We prefer the lemon glaze and candied lemon peel in the recipe below. Below:…
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RECIPE: Flavorful Tofu Salad Dressing With Salsa Verde

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[1] Tofu salsa verde makes a delicious salad dressing and all-around condiment (photo © House Foods). [2] Cubes of fresh tofu (photo © Kamala Bright | Unsplash). [3] Salsa verde (Gemini Photo). [4] Parsley is the base for Old World, or European, salsa verde. Mexican salsa verde, made with tomatillos and chiles, is a culinary…
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FOCUS: So You Want To Be A Food Writer?

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This week we received an email from a young food blogger, who asked about writing opportunities at THE NIBBLE. She wanted to “gain industry experience.” We get frequent inquiries of this nature from people of all ages. Here’s our advice. There are limited career opportunities in food writing. If by “career” you mean an occupation…
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FOOD FUN: The Most Mispronounced Foods

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It’s broo-SKET-tuh, not broo-SHET-tuh. Photo by Vitalina Rybakova | IST.   When we were young, there was a long-running ad for a self-improvement course that promised to make upwardly-aspirational Americans more cultured. One of the ads had this headline: “I’ll have a cup of expresso, please. And make it black.” There is no “expresso,” of…
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