It’s National Chocolate Wafer Day. What’s A Wafer?

  [1] The Central European recipe for thin wafers came to the U.S. in the mid-1700s with émigrés from Moravia (photo © Dewey’s Moravian Cookies). [2] Nabisco sold millions of boxes to home cooks to make various icebox cake recipes. Word on the street was that they were discontinued, but they may be back some…
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A Homemade Devil Dog Recipe For National Devil Dog Day

What food is celebrated on April 27th? It’s National Devil Dog Day! Drake’s Bakeries, originally known as Drake’s Cakes, introduced the Devil Dog—essentially a whoopie pie shaped like a hot dog—in 1926. The two layers of devil’s food cake filled with cream really took off. > In addition to a recipe for homemade devil dogs,…
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RECIPE: Cheesecake Celery Sticks For April Fool’s Day

[1] Crunchy cheesecake bites (photos #1 and #2 © Duda Fresh). [2] Start with celery stalks.   So…you’d think that Cheesecake Celery Sticks are an April Fool’s Day joke. After all…can crunchy celery sticks, a savory snack, be turned into a dessert with cheesecake filling and chocolate sauce? Well…yes. April Fools! > The history of…
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Nantucket Crisps: The Crispiest Potato Chips

March 14th is National Potato Chip Day and March 23rd is National Chip And Dip Day. So there’s no time like the present to introduce our Top Pick Of The Week—the crispiest* potato chip we’ve had the good fortune to encounter: Nantucket Crisps. Why “crisps?” Because they’re just too crispy to call “chips.” While every…
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Like Air Puffcorn: Popcorn Without The Hulls & Kernels

[1] Like Air Puffcorn, our Top Pick Of The Week, was featured on Shark Tank (photo © Shark Tank Products). [2] You can a large-size (4-ounce) combo pack on Amazon (photos #2, #3, #4, and #5 © Like Air Snacks). [3] Pancake is a delicious flavor of popcorn, with far fewer calories than eating pancakes!…
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