GOURMET GIVEAWAY: Green & Black’s Organic Chocolate Bars

Try all 13 flavors of Green & Black’s organic chocolate bars if you’re one of the five lucky winners! Photo courtesy Green & Black’s. Though there are plenty of non-chocolate gifts you could buy for your Valentine, let’s face it: Often, you can’t go wrong with chocolate. If you or your Valentine is the type…
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Farmed Vs. Wild Salmon: Watch Out For Farmed & Norwegian Salmon

[1] A salmon farm (photo © Monterey Bay Aquarium). [2] Raw salmon fillet (photo © Sitka Salmon Shares).   Wild salmon and other fish are more costly, but farmed fish is controversial for numerous reasons. One is that they are threatening the wild salmon population. There are concerns that in another generation, there may be…
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VALENTINE’S DAY: Most Romantic Restaurants

A romantic table at Auberge du Soleil in Napa Valley. Going out to dinner for Valentine’s Day? OpenTable.com has compiled a list of the nation’s most romantic restaurants as judged by users of the online reservations service. OpenTable analyzed more than 4 million reviews from last year to build the list of 50 restaurants from…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Great American Pies

Celebrate Great American Pies Month by trying a new pie recipe. Photo courtesy Cherry Marketing Institute. February is Great American Pies Month. To celebrate, try a new recipe. Find inspiration in our Pie & Pastry Glossary—ten pages of different types of pies and pie terms (and pictures of tempting pies). In fact, you may find…
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GOURMET GIVEAWAY: Walkers Shortbread

If you dine with a sophisticated crowd, enter this week’s Gourmet Giveaway for your chance to win one of the world’s favorite shortbreads—gussied up for special occasions with chocolate enrobing. Each day of this week’s contest, Walkers Shortbread is giving five winners three of their gourmet “shortbreads with a twist.” All the cookies are covered…
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