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Each year, we notice a hot new food trend. Often it’s a new flavor, blasting through everything from salad dressing to popcorn. Notable past flavor explosions like chipotle, jalapeño, and wasabi introduced new kinds of heat to the American palate. The current “it” flavor seems to be sriracha. WHAT IS SRIRACHA? Sriracha, pronounced…
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Even when nature isn’t in full bloom, you can add interest to meals by seeking out less ordinary versions of conventional foods. All you have to do is look for them—at specialty produce stores, farmers markets and online (check out Melissas.com and OmahaSteaks.com, among others). What will you find? The bounty varies by region, but…
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There’s a reason you may not want to buy grouper or snapper, unless the establishment has purchased the whole fish and done its own filleting. Something similar goes for anything touted as wild shrimp or Gulf shrimp: There’s a 30% chance or more that it’s plain old farmed shrimp. It’s easy to fall victim to…
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As part of our Winter Vegetable Doldrums Series, today’s focus is the black radish*, Raphanus sativus niger. It’s a member of the anti-carcinogenic Brassica family of cruciferous† vegetables. Available year round, black radishes peak in winter and early spring. Significantly larger than traditional radishes, it average threes to four inches in diameter or length, and…
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Here’s some food fun that was created at the 2014 Roots Conference held by the Culinary Vegetable Institute. In Project Carrot, gifted chefs took a look at the under-utilized yet extremely versatile carrot, creating everything from cocktails to Carrot Rigatoni with Carrot Bolognese. While this photo looks like pasta, it is trompe l’oeil: What looks…
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