But over the years they’ve tasted worse and worse to us—artificial flavor, and more texture than flavor at that! Perhaps it’s the carnauba wax.

Sorry, Peeps, we’ve replaced you with all-natural, pillowy soft and incredibly flavorful gourmet marshmallows. If your palate demands the best, buy a marshmallow that tastes out of this world.

Check out our review of gourmet marshmallows and you’ll never look at a marshmallow the same way again.

Blackberry marshmallows from Gateau et Ganache.

The dish has evolved over the centuries—the original paella had no conventional meat or seafood, but was made with the more affordable snails!

Paella has become a great party dish. Not only do the current ingredients—chorizo, chicken, seafood and other proteins—make it a delicious and fun main course, but it makes a great buffet centerpiece for parties.

Celebrate National Paella Day on March 27th. Enjoy the history of paella and a paella recipe and then plan a party or a large family gathering.

Forget the same old, same old. Pour something special to talk about over Easter dinner.

Think of Lachryma Christi (“Tears of Christ”). Or Saint Joseph “Offerus” from Jean Louis Chave: It comes from France’s great Rhone appellation named after Joseph of Arimathea, who donated his own prepared tomb for the burial of Jesus after the crucifixion.

Both wines are delicious and can precipitate a dinner table discussion about the meaning of Easter. Read more about them.

Find more information about wine in our Wine Section.

Serve a real Easter wine this year. Photo
courtesy Australian Lamb Council.

Please hop our way this Easter. Photo
courtesy Vosges Haut Chocolate.

Four exotic, solid chocolate bunnies are ready to hop your way:

• Amalfi Bunny (white chocolate, lemon zest and pink peppercorns)
• Barcelona Bunny (hickory-smoked almonds and grey sea salt)
• Orchid Vanilla Bunny (62% dark chocolate with Tahitian vanilla)
• Toffee Bunny (43% dark milk chocolate with toffee chunks and pink Himalayan salt).They’re tasty but petite—2.5 ounces each—so you don’t have to feel guilty about finishing the last bite.

  Find more information on these and our other favorite Easter chocolates.

  Read our full review of Vosges Haut-Chocolat.

It was just last year that two burger lovers in Seattle pondered how to take our beloved national dish to a new level.

Yes, there are gourmet breads and condiments and organic beef, but at the end of the day, it’s still a beef patty (and more recently, a chicken, lamb, pork or turkey patty).

One day, the two intrepid burger explorers decided to incorporate popular ingredients—cheese, other meats, veggies and herbs—into the beef. This has often been done in meat loaf recipes, but the concept tastes oh, so much different in a pure, all-natural, top-quality patty made of free-range beef from the Pacific Northwest.

The first Built Burger was created with a mixture of chorizo, roasted red bell peppers, caramelized Walla Walla onions, Worcestershire sauce and French sea salt. It was so good that people passed on the bun and toppings and ate it with a fork. It was called the Magnificent Chorizo Burger, and that’s not hyperbole.

The best burgers we’ve ever had. Photo © BuiltBurger.com.

• Discover more about these brilliantly-built burgers in the full review, and be sure to order a bunch.
• Check out our better burger tips.