TIP OF THE DAY: Cheese And Honey For Dessert

A cheese plate with honeycomb. Photo courtesy Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board.   Some of the most sophisticated diners don’t think of ending a meal with baked goods, ice cream, pudding or other sugary dessert. Instead, they prefer a plate of cheese. Available in every texture from soft and creamy to hard and grainy, an assortment…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Why Your Favorite Food Products Are Discontinued

This week we received an email from a reader asking what happened to Bibi Caffe, a line of elegant, imported Italian sodas we reviewed in 2007. She wanted to know why the line was no longer sold in the USA, and asked if there was “any way to get it at all?” If “at all”…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Clean Your Water Bottle

  If you carry a refillable bottle of water, or reuse disposable water bottles for water, that’s great for the environment. But, says Prevention magazine, you should clean your water bottle daily to wash away the germs that collect. This video shows how. We must admit to using both refillable bottles and disposable bottles several…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Vacu Vin Instant Marinating Container

The Vacu Vin Instant Marinating Container is a handy aid for anyone who cooks.   We’ve had a Vacu Vin for some 20 years—the Vacu Vin Wine Saver. It removes air from an open bottle of wine, to preserve the wine quality until you get around to finishing the bottle. Then Chef Johnny Gnall introduced…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Daikon Radish Recipes – How To Use Daikon Radish

[1] Daikon, a long white radish variety (photo © Umami Information Center). [2] Low in calories, high in flavor: daikon slaw with crab, black sesame seeds and radish sprouts. Here’s the recipe (photo © Williams Sonoma). [3] Shredded daikon atop cold soba noodles, along with shredded basil, shredded ginger and sesame seeds (photo © Soba…
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