FREEBIE: Friendly’s Ice Cream ~ June 6, 12-5 p.m.

Friendly’s Mint Chocolate Chip Cookie Crunch and Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup ice cream.   The only thing better than ice cream is FREE ice cream. Friendly Ice Cream Corp. is bringing back its Free Ice Cream Day on June 6. Customers can score a free one-scoop dish or cone of any of Friendly’s 26 ice…
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CONTEST: Bar Mitzvah Beer

Rejuvenator, one of the numerous varieties of HE-BREW. It’s never too late to celebrate your bar- or bat mitzvah. He-Brew Beer—an uber-kitschy concept to start with—wants to put vintage bar mitzvah pictures on the label. You with Uncle Izzie, with the challah, with your pink cherub cheeks under that yarmulke. The company, Shmaltz Brewing of…
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FOOD HOLIDAY: International Pickle Week ~ May 15-25

Is there anything more dill-icious than International Pickle Week? It was founded more than 60 years ago by Pickle Packers International, a trade association. The U.S. produces 20 billion pickles each year, an average of nine pounds of pickles per person. So for all the people who don’t eat pickles, or those who eat just…
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PRODUCT: All About Cinnamon

[1] Real cinnamon, called Ceylon cinnamon, is the bark of a tree that grows in Sri Lanka. You can see how dense the stick is (photo © King Arthur Baking). [2] The bark of the cassia tree is curved, like a scroll Saigon or Vietnamese cinnamon (photo © American Heritage Chocolate).   A bit of…
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Kouign-Amann, A Great Yet Little-Known Pastry From France

[1] This buttery Breton pastry makes an addictive addition to your morning coffee (photo by Corey Lugg | © The Nibble). [2] A seasonal pumpkin kouign-amann pastry (photos #2, #3, and #4 © Patisserie Chanson | New York City). [3] The inside of a lemon-poppy kouign amann. [4] Fresh out of the over, topped with…
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