FOOD TRENDS RECIPE: Grilled Bitter Greens & Blue Cheese Salad With Caraway Peach Dressing

Pairing #3 of McCormick’s 2010 Food Trends is Caraway & Bitter Greens. Caraway seeds are actually a fruit, not a seed. The caraway plant looks similar to a carrot plant, with feathery leaves and thread-like divisions. The “seeds” are small, crescent-shaped achenes (an achene is a one-seeded fruit; the seed has a thin wall, such…
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GOURMET GIVEAWAY: Dunkin’ Donuts Gift Card + Donut Design Contest

Image courtesy Dunkin’ Donuts. Sixty years ago, William Rosenberg opened the first Dunkin’ Donuts shop in Quincy, Massachusetts. Today there are thousands of stores worldwide, beckoning the hungry with its cheerful orange and pink logo. To celebrate, there are two contests. THE NIBBLE’s Gourmet Giveaway THE PRIZE: One winner will receive a $60.00 gift card,…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Dessert Sauces For National Sauce Month

Panna cotta with raspberry coulis. Photo by Kelly Cline | IST. March is National Sauce Month. What do you think of when you hear the word “sauce?” Pasta sauce? Mushroom sauce? Worcestershire sauce? How about dessert sauce? From coulis to Crème Anglaise to hard sauce to zabaglione, take a look at all the different types…
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