NEWS: You Can Gain More Than A Pound On Thursday

Can you really eat all this without feeling more stuffed than that turkey?   Not that we didn’t have an inkling, but the average person eats 4,500 calories and 229 grams of fat on Thanksgiving, according to the New York Times. Starting with cocktails before dinner—and perhaps some mixed spiced nuts and fat-laden dips—those calories…
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VIEWS: “American Cheese”

If you’re serving a cheese course on Thanksgiving, we hope it’s American cheese. Some of the greatest cheese artisans in the world work right here in the U.S.A.—and they’ve been earning top awards at world cheese competitions (see details in the Cheese Section of THE NIBBLE online magazine). It would be un-American to bring a…
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PRODUCT REVIEW: Nip ‘n Tang

Cousin to a spicy honey mustard, Nip ’n Tang adds the bite of horseradish.   Perhaps one of the most versatile condiments around, Nip ‘n Tang combines fruit and horseradish for a sweet and spicy profile—sweet fruit and spicy/tangy horseradish. If you like peach and mango salsa and honey mustard, you’ll like Nip ‘n Tang.…
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CONTEST: This Week’s Gourmet Giveaway Is Fruit

With Thanksgiving coming up, you could win a cornucopia of healthy gourmet food: choice fruit, nuts and cheese plus a keepsake “horn of plenty” basket to use as holiday decor. Enter THE NIBBLE’s weekly Gourmet Giveaway. All you have to do is answer a few fun trivia questions; you don’t even have to get them…
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NEWS: World’s Most Expensive Restaurants

Grant Achatz flight of hearts of Palm at Alinea in Chicago. See the rest of the Cuisine Gallery at AlineaRestaurant.com.   If we won the lottery, we’d take our main squeeze and our four best friends on a tour of these top temples of cuisine, named by Forbes Magazine as the 12 most expensive restaurants…
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