TIP OF THE DAY: Apple Crisps Are Easy To Make

You may not make homemade pie because you don’t like crust that much—or just don’t like wielding it. You can enjoy the same baked apple flavor with a betty or crisp (a.k.a. crumble). The differences, along with dough-topped variations such as cobbler, grunt, pandowdy and slump, are below. BEST APPLES FOR BAKING When you bake…
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Medjool Dates, Nature’s Candy & The History of Dates

Foodies who like lusciousness—not to mention fitness fans looking for a natural source of post-workout muscle recovery—may want to reach for one of the world’s oldest-cultivated fruits: Medjool dates. Dates are one of the first cultivated foods, and so naturally sweet that they’ve earned the nicknames “nature’s candy” and “the world’s first candy.” Sure, they’re…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Asian Pears

In the spring, when the blossoms fall from the Asian pear trees, the nascent pears are the size of peas. Now, at harvest time, many are as large as croquet balls, some varieties the size of softballs (and yet low in calories—about 50 per 4 ounces). If you see a red and white Subarashii Kudamono,…
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