PRODUCT: Edible Gold & Silver

All that glitters on your plate may be edible gold and silver. Edible gold and silver are gold and silver leaf, metal that it is beaten so incredibly thin that it can be eaten (the metals are not digested or absorbed but pass right through the body). The gold is 22 or 23 karat; some…
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HOLIDAY: Happy Chanukah

Chanukah, the festival of lights, starts at sunset tonight through sunset, December 19th, or in the Hebrew calendar, the 24th of Kislev, 5770. Most people enjoy celebrating with potato latkes (you can send them as a gift from Linda’s Latkes). Even if you’re not Jewish, why not make some latkes over the weekend, and join…
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PRODUCT: Bake Flatbread At Home

We eat lots of Mediterranean foods, often with pita bread from the supermarket that isn’t as flavorful as we’d like it to be. So when we spotted Canterbury Naturals flatbread mix, “just add oil and water,” we eagerly set out to bake our own flatbread (not with pockets like pita, but hopefully more exciting). We…
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PRODUCT: French Meadow Bakery Gluten Free Bread

French Meadow Bakery’s Whole Grain Bread, Sandwich Bread and Italian Rolls. Photo by Hannah Kaminsky | THE NIBBLE. French Meadow Bakery makes certified organic and gluten-free products that are casein-free, lactose-free and peanut-free, as well as kosher (parve). We recently tasted a selection of company’s gluten-free line of breads and cakes. When we taste gluten-free…
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PRODUCT: Ayala’s Herbal Water Adds Lemon Verbena Geranium

There’s a new flower in the garden of Ayala’s Herbal Water. Lemon Verbena Germanium smells and tastes just like geraniums accented with lemon verbena (which some will recall as Ellen O’Hara’s—mother of Scarlett—favorite scent). Like the rest of the flavors, it’s refreshing, delightful and wonderfully different. Ayala’s infuses organic garden herbs, blended with spices and…
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