RECIPE TIPS: Enjoy Thanksgiving With Fewer Calories

Chicago caterer, restaurateur and author, Carlyn Berghoff, provides these calorie-saving tips for the holidays: -White meat has less fat and fewer calories than dark meat. If you brine your turkey or use the Turkey Cannon, the white meat will be so moist, a dark-meat lover won’t be disappointed. -With a moister turkey, you don’t need…
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PRODUCT: New Liberté Yogourt Flavors Rock

Delicious for light lunch, snacking or dessert (photo THE NIBBLE).   Vive la liberté: Liberté Yogurt has introduced two fab new flavors into its Mediteranée line of yogurts, and we think we like them even better than all of the other flavors. That’s saying a lot, since we have long been enamored of the entire…
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NEW PRODUCT: Michael Phelps’ Sports Drink, PureSport

Olympic swimming champion Michael Phelps has launched PureSport, his sports performance beverage of choice. Phelps owns shares of the company and helped develop the product, created by Dr. John Ivy of the University of Texas, with fellow U.S. Swim Team members. The athletes drank PureSport in training for, and during, the 2008 Olympics. Swim team…
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NEW PRODUCT: Green & Black’s New Chocolate Bar & Minis

  Green & Black’s organic chocolate welcomes a new member to the family: Toffee, a bouncing 34% milk chocolate bar with crunchy pieces of (of course, organic) toffee. It’s a devilishly good combination, and we have yielded to temptation. But there’s even better news: G & B has recently introduced special bags featuring 23 individually…
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GOURMET NEWS: Are You In “Knead?”

Move over, Butterball, there’s a new hotline in town. For the third year, The Crisco Pie Hotline is helping bakers in “knead” of a little pie baking advice. Last year’s most commonly asked questions were: -“How do I prevent the bottom of my pumpkin pie crust from becoming soggy?”-“How long can I freeze my unbaked…
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