FOOD FACTS: The Difference Between Baking & Roasting

What’s the difference between roast chicken and baked chicken, both made in the oven? One is cooked whole, the other in pieces with some liquid (photo © Mackenzie Ltd..   Both take place in an oven, so what’s the difference between baking and roasting? They’re the same process: cooking the food in an airtight device,…
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FOOD HOLIDAY: National Cheeseburger Day

Every day we tweet on a different food holiday (sign up at Twitter.com/TheNibble). But some holidays, like National Cheeseburger Day, deserve more than a tweet. As one of America’s favorite foods, the cheeseburger demands that you celebrate! Check out 8 gorgeous cheeseburger recipes. Don’t want cheese? See our 40+ burger recipes—a different burger for every…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Improving Bad Bubbly With A Kir

[1] Kir Royale: sparkling wine and crème de cassis, which is blackcurrant liqueur (photo © The Mercury | Atlanta (now closed, alas). [2] The original Kir, simply crème de cassis and white wine, has no bubbly. It begat the Kir Royale (with Champagne, above) and a dozen more variations (photo © Stuart Webster | Wikipedia).…
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NEWS: Carrots, The New Junk Food

As the saying goes, if you can’t lick ‘em, join ‘em. If your kids want junk food instead of vegetables, give them vegetables packaged like junk food. And proclaim that those veggies are, in fact, junk food. That’s what the 50-odd carrot growers behind BabyCarrots.com have done. In what is perhaps the best food campaign…
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CONTEST: Puff Pastry Recipes

As food writers, we spend most of the day tasting and reviewing products. We do a lot of cooking and baking and explore new ways to use ingredients. Recently, we joined the Pepperidge Farm Recipe Challenge that invites bloggers to test their creativity with puff pastry. The challenge is not only to create an original…
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