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We love tomato soup, but have run out of patience with the added sweeteners—typically corn syrup or high fructose corn syrup. We don’t like the excessive sweet taste of the soup, we don’t like the added calories, and we certainly don’t like HFCS. For National Soup Month, here’s an easy recipe from Davio’s Boston, one…
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Enjoy your feast, but don’t toss the carcass. Use it to make stock! Photo courtesy Sur La Table. Plan ahead: Don’t throw away that turkey carcass. Or the roast chicken* carcass. Or those tops, root ends and stems from trimming vegetables. Save the vegetable trimmings from the week’s meals: carrot tops, celery ends, fennel…
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Before it was a popular snack, popcorn was a whole grain food. In Colonial times, it was eaten in a bowl with milk or cream, like modern puffed rice and other puffed cereal grains. In the 18th century, after the corn harvest, farmers would toss corn kernels, some fat and a little molasses into a…
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