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[1] Ice cream tacos: olé! (photo © Taste Of Home). [2] Chocolate shavings for “taco’ garnish (photo © Hebert Candies). How about ice cream tacos for Cinco de Mayo? You can make them the easy way, with frozen round toaster waffles, or make crunchy pizzelles and fold them into taco-like shells. But we adapted…
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For Cinco de Mayo, these mango bowls are great as a dessert with a scoop of vanilla ice cream or lemon sorbet. The recipe is from Urban Accents, which makes it with its Rio grande chili blend, an award winning chili seasoning that balances a smoky mesquite flavor with chili pepper, onion, garlic and bell…
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Blueberry and passion fruit unite in swirls of sorbetto. Photo courtesy Ciao Bella. Ciao Bella, maker of premium gelato and sorbetto, recently introduced two new flavors, and sent us samples. We’re longtime fans of Ciao Bella. Before they hit the big time, they were a destination scoop shop in our town—way back in 1983.…
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Happy birthday Thomas Jefferson! Born April 13, 1743, this Founding Father became America’s third president; but he was America’s First Foodie. According to culinary historian Karen Hess, Jefferson was “our most illustrious epicure, in fact, our only epicurean President.” He loved his veggies, stating that they “constitute my principal diet.” His favorites: tennis-ball lettuce, Brown…
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Hello Kitty, whose “real” name is Kitty White, is a cartoon character produced by the Japanese company Sanrio. She is a white Japanese bobtail cat with a red hair bow. From her first appearance on a vinyl coin purse in Japan in 1974 (it arrived in the U.S. in 1976), Hello Kitty exploded into a…
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