TIP OF THE DAY: Save The Sauerkraut Juice & A Bacon Sauerkraut Recipe

We have a delicious recipe for bacon sauerkraut below, but first a tip: Don’t toss the sauerkraut juice. Not only is it good for you*; if you like the taste of sauerkraut, the juice has the identical flavor. Drink It Drinking sauerkraut juice may sound strange to Americans, but it is a popular digestif and…
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FOOD FUN: A Salad Bowl Of Radicchio Leaves

The Alcove Cafe & Bakery in Los Angeles creates a bowl from radicchio leaves, and fills it with salad. It’s not just pretty: It’s fun food! The Cafe serves it with their ginger shrimp, seared ginger-marinated shrimp with mixed greens, sauteed mushrooms, tomatoes and plum dressing, topped with enoki mushrooms. The dish is called “Ginger…
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FOOD FUN: Heirloom Potatoes

Exotic looking, but they’re just potatoes! Photo courtesy Costanera Cocina Peruana.   Potatoes originated in the Andes Mountains of Peru, where more than 2,000 varieties still grow wild (there are more than 4,000 varieties of potatoes worldwide). They were first domesticated more than 6,000 years ago. Don’t you wish you could buy some of these…
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RECIPE: Tomato & Watermelon Salad With Ricotta Salata

Tomato and watermelon salad: delicious! (photo © McCormick). [2] Ricotta salata, a good “salad cheese.” There’s more about ricotta salata below(photo © Good Eggs).   It‘s not red, white and blue, but we can’t wait to serve this salad over July 4th weekend. It’s a riot of different flavors, accented with ricotta salata, a firm…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Your Own Signature French Fries

While the Belgians may or may not have invented what we call French fries (see the history below), they do consume the most French fries per capita of any country in Europe. And we would have thought that Americans took that prize! Call them French fries or simply fries in America, chips in the U.K.…
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