TIP OF THE DAY: French Cheeses With American Meals

A beautiful blue: fourme d’ambert is made from pasteurized cow’s milk in Auvergne. Each wheel is formed from unpressed curds inoculated with a less spicy blue mold than that of its cousin, Roquefort. Photo courtesy Murray’s Cheese.   We have friends who are French cheese snobs. They grew up on it, they love it, and…
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TOP PICK OF THE WEEK: Old-Style Chocolate & New Learning Opportunities

A sip into the past. A cup of drinking chocolate with two chocolate sticks. Photo courtesy American Heritage Chocolate.   Turn the clock back 400 years. You’re in colonial America. You can’t have a chocolate bar, because solid chocolate bars have not been invented.* But you can have a cup of luscious hot chocolate. In…
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FOOD FUN: Carrots In Love

Who would want to eat these carrots and destroy their charm? But wiser minds argue that if they aren’t eaten, they’ll just wither away. Point taken, and it’s a moot point too, since we are not in possession of these carrots in love. But we do have a bag of baby carrots, and the photo…
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