TIP OF THE DAY: Wonderful White Chocolate

  Today is White Chocolate Day, but did you know that is only since 2002 that the FDA classified this ivory delight as chocolate? Because white chocolate contains no cocoa solids, it used to be classified with the chalk-white product called “confectionary coating,” which is made with cheaper vegetable oil instead of cocoa butter—and in…
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Cherries Jubilee Recipe For National Cherries Jubilee Day

[1] If you have stemmed dessert dishes or Champagne coupes, Cherries Jubilee is an opportunity to use them (photo © The Nibble). [2] We like the orange zest used to garnish this version of Cherries Jubilee. Here’s the recipe (photo © Grand Baby Cakes). [3] Queen Victoria ate Cherries Jubilee from a stemmed silver dish,…
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TIP OF THE DAY: The Joy Of Soy

Want more soy in your life? Edamame (the Japanese word for green soybeans), once found only at Japanese restaurants, are now available almost everywhere, in the frozen vegetable case. (Guess what—the restaurants buy them frozen, too.) Steam them and eat them as a snack or an appetizer Japanese-style, squeezing the beans from the pod into…
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