TOP PICK OF THE WEEK: Beanitos Bean Chips, Restaurant Style

New restaurant style Beanitos are bean chips that look and taste like tortilla chips. Photo by Elvira Kalviste | THE NIBBLE.   The chip choices in America are vast. We’ve got bagel chips, beet chips, cassava chips, chickpea chips (hummus chips and falafel chips), corn chips/tortilla chips, lentil chips ([apadums), lotus root chips, pita chips,…
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TOP PICK OF THE WEEK: Onion Crunch, The New Condiment Sensation

From hot dogs to filet mignon, Onion Crunch adds something special to every dish it garnishes. Photo courtesy Loeb’s Onion Crunch.   It‘s not often that a new condiment appears. Generally, like salsa and wasabi, it enters our cuisine due to the popularity of a foreign cuisine in the U.S. In fact, the inspiration for…
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TOP PICK OF THE WEEK: Talenti Gelato In Spring Colors For Easter

It’s really easy to make this ice cream cake for Easter, or to simply serve three pretty colors of gelato or sorbetto in a bowl. Photo courtesy Talenti Gelato.   By the time dessert comes, we’ll be bursting at the seams: no room for carrot cake or coconut cake (can we get that to go?),…
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TOP PICK OF THE WEEK: Gourmet Dessert Sauces From Somebody’s Mother’s

Three new gourmet dessert sauces from Somebody’s Mother’s. Photo by Elvira Kalviste | THE NIBBLE.   It is almost four years since we first discovered Somebody’s Mother’s dessert sauces—Chocolate Sauce, White Chocolate Sauce and Caramel Sauce—and named them a Top Pick Of The Week (here’s the original review). The chocolate sauces remain our favorite dessert…
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TOP PICK OF THE WEEK: Blue Bandana Chocolate Bars

New artisan chocolate bars. Photo courtesy Lake Champlain Chocolates.   Looking for an Easter gift for a chocolate connoisseur? Check out Blue Bandana chocolate bars from Lake Champlain Chocolates, one of our favorite producers of fine chocolate candies. Third-generation chocolatier Eric Lampman developed the bean-to-bar chocolate, using single origin cacao beans from Guatemala and Madagascar.…
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