TIP OF THE DAY: 6 Steps To Brewing Better Coffee

It’s easy to brew better coffee. Photo courtesy Filicori Zecchino.   Do you buy more coffee outside the home because you can’t brew a better cup of coffee? Consider this checklist to improving your home efforts: 1. Start with a clean carafe. Coffee has oil that builds up in the carafe. You can’t see it,…
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TIP OF THE DAY: The Ataulfo Mango (Champagne Mango)

The Ataulfo, or Champagne, mango. Photo courtesy ILoveMangoes.com.   When you think of mangoes, you may think of the familiar reddish-green mangos and wonder about the petite golden-yellow ones that some people call baby mangoes. They’re Ataulfo mangos from Mexico, also commonly called Champagne mangoes, and they’re in season now. Mango lovers prefer them to…
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Our Favorite Licorice Is Australian Liquorice (The UK Spelling)

[1] Flower-like “shooters” and other specialty shapes (photo by Katharine Pollak | © THE NIBBLE).   Today is National Licorice Day. There is much debate in the U.S. over Red Vines versus Twizzlers, but if you haven’t had English or Australian liquorice, as they spell it, you haven’t had great licorice. The natural flavors and…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Try A Tagine

A tagine (tah-ZHEEN) is a Moroccan stew of vegetables with meat, poultry, fish or seafood. More specifically, it’s a Berber dish from North Africa that is named after the type of earthenware pot in which it is cooked, originally over coals. (A similar dish, tavvas, is made in Cyprus.) There are traditional clay tagines, some…
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