TIP: Flavored Water Enhancers For World Water Day

Don’t buy flavored water: Make your own with this pocket-size squeeze bottle. Photo by Elvira Kalviste | THE NIBBLE.   It’s World Water Day, an observance begun in 1993 by a declaration of the United Nations General Assembly, to focus on the challenges of the world’s water supply. On previous World Water Days, we advocated…
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TOP PICK OF THE WEEK: B Sweet Hot Bread Pudding

Cookies & Cream bread pudding from B Sweet. Photo by Elvira Kalviste | THE NIBBLE.   Live near a Super Target? Lucky you, if your Super Target store is one of the many to carry B Sweet bread pudding. The headline: Delicious bread pudding from freezer to the microwave in minutes. Launched last month, B…
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FOOD HOLIDAY: Celebrate With A Spring Cocktail

Celebrate spring with a springlike cocktail. Photo courtesy Tuaca.   We’re less than 24 hours into spring and contemplating a spring cocktail this evening—to celebrate both the arrival of spring and the end of the work week. The spring equinox occurred yesterday at 12:57 p.m. It begs for a little astronomy lesson about equinoxes and…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Break Wine Barriers

Most people who drink wine regularly have learned “rules” of pairing wine with food. There are very precise rules—Chablis with oysters is one—and general pronouncements, such as white wine with fish. You can go to the website FoodAndWinePairing.org and get guidance such as a Cabernet Sauvignon or a Malbec with lamb. But conventional wisdom, which…
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RECIPE: Cookies & Cream Cheesecake

Some might think that we publish too many cheesecake recipes. But when cheesecake is one’s favorite comfort food, how many are too many? Plus, we need to get our last licks: “Cheesecake season” concludes at the end of spring. The dense cream cheese cheesecake we favor is too heavy for summer. So this may be…
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