PRODUCT: Grow Back To The Roots Mushrooms In Your Kitchen

Here’s a fun, educational and tasty summer activity for adults and kids alike: Grow mushrooms in your kitchen. Back to the Roots shows the joy of home farming via a small cardboard box that produces two micro-crops of mushrooms. Two UC Berkeley students came across the idea during a class, which mentioned the potential to…
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TIP OF THE DAY: How To Dissolve Sugar In Cold Drinks

Sugar dissolves slowly in cold liquids. Photo by K.G. Toh | CSP   As most people have discovered, table sugar is slow to dissolve in cold drinks. Whether you’re sweetening iced coffee and iced tea or making a sweet cocktail, there are better products to use than conventional granulated sugar. Superfine Sugar Pick up some…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Pisco From Peru

July 26th is National Pisco Day—a day to drink Pisco, and to try Brazil’s national cocktail, the Pisco Sour (recipe below). We’re about to introduce you to Pisco. Below you’ll find: The History Of Pisco Pisco Cocktails Pisco Sour Recipe   But first:     WHERE WOULD WE BE WITHOUT THESE FOOD STAPLES FROM PERU?…
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FOOD HOLIDAY: National Ceviche Day & Ceviche Recipes

June 28th is National Ceviche Day in Peru, where it’s one of the national dishes. The holiday has arrived in the U.S.—a healthy celebration for trying new ceviche recipes. Ceviche—shellfish cured by citrus juice acid—has been popular in Latin America for many centuries. It dates some 2,000 years to an Inca dish of raw marinated…
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