GOURMET GIVEAWAY: Cooperstown Cookie Company Shortbread Cookies

Take me out to the ball game, but forget the peanuts and Crackerjack. Instead, bring along the buttery shortbread cookies from Cooperstown Cookie Company. The rich, traditional shortbread cookies, a NIBBLE favorite shortbread (read our review), are made in the regulation size of baseballs (3″ diameter). They’re made by hand and baked in small batches,…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Easter Candy Giveaway

You were great, but it’s time to go! Photo courtesy iGourmet.com. Easter was great, but now you’re surrounded with leftover jelly beans, chocolate bunnies, buttercream Easter eggs and more. Good as they were, do you want to consume those calories? Our solution: Bring the Easter candy to your workplace, school or anywhere else you hang…
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DESSERT: Try A Mousse

Yesterday’s Easter dinner ended with chocolate mousse. To cap the festivity of the seven-course dinner* there were two different kinds of mousse: dark chocolate and white chocolate. It made us think about why nobody serves mousse anymore. It’s only found on the menus of old-style French and Continental restaurants, and there are fewer and fewer…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Tomato Juice Cocktail, a.k.a. Virgin Mary

Start dinner with a tomato juice cocktail, a.k.a. Virgin Mary. Photo by Marlena Zagajewski | Dreamstime. When was the last time you had a glass of tomato juice (that wasn’t a Bloody Mary)? Earlier this year we wrote about juice “cocktails,” and how the custom of starting lunch or dinner with a glass of tomato…
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TOP PICK OF THE WEEK: Best Gluten-Free Brownies, Cake & Cookies

Even if you don’t have a gluten allergy, you’ll want to know about these Top Picks. That’s because lots of people have allergies, with more diagnoses made daily. Even among people who appear to be healthy, gluten intolerance is common. Studies indicate that 1 in 167 children (0.6%) and 1 in 111 adults (0.9%) have…
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