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Melt-in-your-mouth French macarons. Photo by Oksana Shufrich | IST. What’s more delicious than a box of macarons? Great macarons are a memorable gift—and you can still get some in time for Mother’s Day. This week’s Top Pick is Macaron Café in New York City: our current reigning favorite macaron. Airy, delicate, melt-in-your-mouth sandwich cookies…
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Need a Mother’s Day gift that’s sure to please? Some of our favorite brownies are made by artisan bakery, BT Baking. Moist and fudgy—but never cloying or “too rich”—the brownies are made in four fab flavors: Chocolate Brownie, the classic, made with 70% cacao Cookie Brownie, with a layer of chocolate chip cookie Peanut Butter…
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Gelato is the original ice cream, invented in Florence in the 16th century. The key differences vis-à-vis ice cream are less cream/more milk and less air (overrun). This combination enables a more intense showcasing of the fruits, nuts and other flavors. Talenti Gelato is named for Bernardo Buontalenti, the impressario who first created gelato for…
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Chocolate povitica: a winner. Photo courtesy Strawberry Hill. When we received a note telling us to expect a shipment of Strawberry Hill Povitica (poe-veet-suh), we rushed to the company website to answer the question: What is povitica? It is, as we discovered, an eastern European yeast cake similar to Russian babka—but better. Richer. More…
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Kurobuta ham has been called the world’s best ham. It‘s also known as the Kobe beef of ham, because of the fine intramuscular marbling that makes the meat melt-in-your-mouth tender. While Kurobuta (koo-row-BOO-tuh) ham isn’t quite as pricey as Kobe beef, it is a special-occasion luxury. Snake River Farms, a Kurobuta producer, has created a…
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