TOP PICK OF THE WEEK: Gourmet Marshmallows

A two-layer Black Forest marshmallow with a chocolate bottom and a top made withcherry purée. It’s topped with dried cherriesand chopped chocolate. From CrumblesCookie Factory, it’s fabulous. Photo byRiver Soma | THE NIBBLE.   To adapt comedian Rodney Dangerfield’s famous line, marshmallows don’t get no respect. At least in the world of fine confections. That’s…
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TOP PICK: Gourmet Vegan For Everyone, Plus Flexitarians, Pescatarians, & Others

Delicious Vegan Ginger Chicken. Photocourtesy Vegetarian Plus.   If you’re not already a flexitarian, pescatarian or vegetarian, a vegan diet may seem extreme. Give up all animal products, including dairy, eggs and honey? If that sounds like too much sacrifice, you should still consider choosing it for a day or two each week. It’s not…
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TOP PICK OF THE WEEK: Guayusa Tea

Save the rainforest, save the world. This adaptation of a catchphrase from the first season of “Heroes” floated through our head as we enjoyed cup after cup of delicious and refreshing guayusa. What is guayusa (why-YOU-suh)? It’s a perkier cousin of yerba maté, a tea brewed from South American holly leaves. Maté and guayusa come…
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TOP PICK OF THE WEEK: Java Bites Coffee Cookies

Have some espresso cookies with your espresso. Photo by River Soma | THE NIBBLE. Some people love the aroma of a cup of coffee, but not the taste of it. Others don’t drink coffee, but happily devour coffee ice cream, chocolate-covered coffee beans and other coffee-flavored foods. And then there are those who love all…
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TOP PICK OF THE WEEK: Sustainable Coffee

We were thrilled to discover Tiny Footprint coffee, an organic brand that is doubly sustainable through negative carbon emissions. We taste most things blind. So before we knew it was organic or carbon negative, we thought it was a great cup of coffee. Then, we found out how sustainable it is, first through organic agriculture…
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