FOOD HOLIDAY: Easy Gumbo Recipe With Swanson’s

Gumbo is a Creole soup from Louisiana, thickened with okra pods. “Gumbo” is an African word for okra. Okra came to America with the slave trade and was introduced to the Southern white population by African cooks. As with all recipes, there are regional variations and different styles of gumbo. You can toil for many…
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RECIPE: Apple Streusel Bundt Cake & The History Of The Bundt

Updated August 2026   Remember the Tunnel Of Fudge Cake, a chocolate bundt cake with an inner circle of chocolate pudding? Here’s a sophisticated version for fall: a Bundt cake with a circle of apple streusel‡ (photos #4 and #5). Celebrate fall’s apple harvest with this apple Bundt recipe from Zulka, a family-owned business that…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Have A Temaki Party

What’s a temakeria? It’s a fast-casual style eatery featuring temaki, the made-to-order, cone-shaped “hand roll” sushi. Rice, raw fish and vegetables are wrapped in a sheet of nori, seaweed that pressed into thin sheets. In the case of Uma Temakeria, newly opened in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan (64 Seventh Avenue at 14th Street), the…
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