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FOOD HOLIDAYS: April Is Soft Pretzel Month

Don’t wait until you get to the ball park to have a big, fragrant soft pretzel. Bake them at home with this soft pretzel recipe. Feed them to the kids, or invite the adult gang over for beer and your home-baked pretzels. Find a good beer in our Beer Section.

– The kids might prefer this “Peanut Butter Monstwich” monster sandwich recipe.
– Find some of our favorite gourmet mustards to put on your soft pretzels.
– Read the history of mustard.
– Take our Pretzel Trivia Quiz.
– It may seem like a bit “duh,” but here’s a definition of “soft pretzel.”

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NEW PRODUCT: Fair Trade Chocolate Bars from Shaman Chocolates

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Dark Chocolate with Coconut Bar.
People who make a point of eating Fair Trade chocolate should take a look at the line of Fair Trade chocolate bars from Shaman Chocolates, including two new organic Fair Trade bars. As a second humanitarian bonus, sales help support the maintaining of the pre-Columbian traditions of the Huichol Indians, a tribe living in the Sierra Madre Mountains of central western Mexico who are said to be the last indigenous tribe in North America. All profits from the sales of Shaman Chocolates help support the work of the Huichols, who make visionary yarn paintings and beaded artwork and continue to live in their traditional ways.
Flavors include Dark Chocolate, Dark Chocolate with Coconut, Dark Chocolate with Ruby Raspberries, Organic Dark Chocolate with Acai, Lemon & Orange, Organic Dark Chocolate with Green Tea & Ginger, Extra Dark Chocolate (82% cacao), Milk Chocolate, Milk Chocolate with Hazelnuts, and Milk Chocolate with Macadamia Nuts & Hawaiian Pink Sea Salt. The suggested retail price is $3.00 for a two-ounce bar. The chocolate bars, which feature labels adorned with amazing Huichol artwork and imagery, are available at retailers nationwide and online at Shamanchocolates.com.

Learn more about Fair Trade and how it benefits farmers.

Shop GertrudeHawkChocolates.com Today!

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RECIPE: Smokra Deviled Eggs

What’s Smokra? It’s smoked okra, one of our favorite pickled vegetables from NIBBLE Top Pick Of The Week Rick’s Picks. We love all of Rick Fields’ pickles and pickled vegetables, but Smokra has been a passion since first bite. Now, Rick sends us a recipe for Smokra Deviled Eggs. How can we resist?

– Smokra Deviled Eggs Recipe
– Caviar Deviled Eggs Recipe
Instructions For How To Make The Perfect Hard Boiled Egg
– Deviled Eggs With Frieda’s Garlic Delights (another NIBBLE Top Pick)

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ENTERTAINING: Keep Foods Cool Outdoors

Necessity is the mother of invention, and Jack French came up with an idea to keep the perishable foods cool that he and his wife Linda set out for their backyard picnics and barbecues. Now, French’s Tabletop Cooler is an easy way to prevent foodborne illnesses from ruining your outdoor soirees. Along the concept of an inflatable kiddie pool, the table-size, heavy duty plastic liner is set atop a picnic table, folding table or whatever you use as a buffet, and filled with ice. Set onto the ice the platters and bowls of potato salad, fried chicken, cold cuts and other foods that should be kept cool. You don’t have to run back and forth to the kitchen to refill chilled foods from the fridge. French’s Tabletop Cooler can also be used as a beverage table—more user-friendly than the cooler or trash can approach. It’s $39.95 plus $12.99 shipping at FrenchsTabletopCooler.com.

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TOP PICK OF THE WEEK: Biotta Organic Vegetable & Fruit Juices

Who doesn’t love a glass of juice? But, just like like ice cream, burgers or any pleasing food, there’s good, very good and amazing. Biotta raises the juice bar about as high as it can go. It’s beyond delicious—it’s exciting, vibrant and organic to boot!

Each of the 16 different bottles of fruit and vegetable juice is labeled with the health benefit that the produce’s vitamins and minerals confer—for example, beet juice or vegetable juice cocktail for your immune system, carrot juice for vision, celery root juice for pH regulation, potato juice for the stomach. Potato juice? If you’ve just cocked an eyebrow, you’ll convert to eyes wide open as you sip a glass and sigh, “I never dreamed potato juice would taste like this!”

But these juices are more than just sippers. You can cook with them, make ice cream and sorbet, turn them into kickin’ cocktails. Beetroot Martini? Mmmm—and while you’re at it, try some fine organic gin and vodka from the Organic Spirits Company. Read the full review, and then, drink up!


Biotta’s beautiful organic juice line—delicious and
most definitely good for you.

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