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TOP PICK OF THE WEEK: Food Should Taste Good Tortilla Chips

 
Food Should Taste Good makes a
rainbow of flavors. Above, Jalapeño and
the barely sweet Chocolate tortilla chips,
which can be enjoyed with sweet dips,
hot chocolate, even ice cream.
Sometimes, you take certain foods for granted, without appreciating how good they are. We’ve been nibbling away on Food Should Taste Good tortilla chips for almost two years, but only recently were struck by a blinding revelation of the obvious: This is a great line!

The brand name is itself a mouthful, and might better be called Great Healthy Food. The wholesome, all-natural, gluten-free chips have no cholesterol or trans fats, no GMOs, are lower in sodium than many chips and a good source of dietary fiber. Yummy flavors include Buffalo (as in wings), a barely sweet Chocolate, Jalapeño, Multigrain, Olive, Sweet Potato and The Works! (exclamation point included). The flavors are evenly baked in, not powder sprinkled on top. Each is a winner and will enchant your family and guests, not only with the taste but with the different shapes and colors, too—brown, orange, yellow, coral, circle, diamond, fan, hexagon, oval, rectangle, triangle. The line is gluten-free and certified kosher by OU.

Start planning for party season! Just don’t expect anything like your typical tortilla chips. While made from a base of stone ground white corn, these chips don’t deliver pure corn taste. Instead, enjoy the great complexity of flavors that makes these, truly, chips of a different color. Except for Jalapeño and Multigrain, we’d serve dips other than traditional red or green salsa (see the full review). They can also substitute as tasty crackers with soup and salad—even as a base for canapés. Read more about Food Should Taste Good tortilla chips, and how to have fun pairing them with different dips, in the full review. And take a look at more chips and crunchy snacks in our Gourmet Snacks Section.

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Holidays: Honey Cake For Rosh Hashanah

Celebrate Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, with a delicious honey cake from The Exceptional Brownie. Claire Sauerhoff bakes her cakes with premium honey, heart healthy canola oil and dancing spices. Certified kosher (OU Pareve), the very  moist cakes are available in a mini loaf (8 ounces) and a large loaf (serves 12, 24 ounces), packaged in beautiful gold and brown molds. Your choice: the package with four mini loaf cakes and rich custom-ground French Roast coffee  (reg. or decaf); or the two large loaf cake packages with coffee. Four mini loaves or one large loaf are packaged with a pound of regular or decaf ground French Roast coffee for $40.00. Purchase at ExceptionalBrownie.com. They’re not just for the holidays—buy them for yourself or as gifts any time. And treat yourself to some brownies, too. Read our review.

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RECIPES: Favorite Gin Cocktails


[1] The Piccadilly cocktail substitutes gin for Tequila in the popular TequilaSunrise. Gin is a versatile spirit that can be enjoyed in cocktails far beyond the Gin and Tonic or Martini.

Beefeater Gin Ad
[2] Beefeater 1960s ad from eBay.

Martini Cocktail With Olives
[3] The Martini was originally made with gin (photo © The Bar).

 

The Gin & Tonic is the archetypal British cocktail, but gin is as adaptable to different recipes as any other spirit.

For your next cocktail party, offer guests a menu of gin cocktails. Here are some favorites from Beefeater Gin.

Beefeater, named after a slang term for the Yeomen Warders who guard the Tower of London (shown on Beefeater Gin’s bottle label), is the only international gin still distilled in London.

Its proprietary gin recipe, developed in the early 1860s, includes botanicals such as juniper, angelica roots and seeds, coriander seeds, licorice, almonds, orris root, Seville oranges, and lemon peel.

Each brand of gin has its own recipe and distinctive flavor. Beefeater has a floral palate with hints of citrus.

Learn how each botanical contributes to the blend at BeefeaterGin.com.

> The history of gin.
 
 
CLASSIC GIN COCKTAILS

  • Classic Gin & Tonic
  • Classic Gin & Tonic #2
  • French 75
  • Gibson
  • Gimlet
  • Gin Fizz
  • Gin Fizz #2
  • Gin Martini
  • Gin Rickey
  • Gin Rickey #2
  • London Lemonade
  • Negroni
  • Negroni #2
  • Negroni #3
  • The Piccadilly
  • Pink Lady
  • Ramos Gin Fizz
  • Royal Garden
  • Salty Dog
  • Singapore Sling
  • Tom Collins
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    MORE GIN COCKTAILS

  • Blackberry, Cassis & Gin
  • Blood Orange Juice & Gin
  • Desert Rose Pink Gin Cocktail
  • Gin Martini Milkshake
  • Hibiscus Rose Gin Cocktail
  • The Violet Fog
  • Thyme Gin & Tonic
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    News: Diet At The Cheesecake Factory

    Our favorite chain restaurant, The Cheesecake Factory, has added to its popular Weight Management menu category with the addition of a Weight Management Grilled Chicken, a lightly-pounded chicken breast, charbroiled and topped with a tomato and arugula salad. The plate is garnished with steamed white rice (tell them to hold the rice—too bad they didn’t make it brown rice, since white rice is largely empty calories) and asparagus. The Grilled Chicken entrée is less than 590 total calories, making it the perfect light summer fare. The piece of limited-edition 30th Anniversary Chocolate Cake Cheesecake you can have for dessert will easily match those calories. The four-layer anniversary cheesecake combines two layers of Original Cheesecake and two layers of Chocolate Fudge Cake, filled with chocolate cream and finished with crunchy pearls of Valrhona chocolate. Share a piece with two or three friends. The first Cheesecake Factory restaurant opened in Beverly Hills, California in 1978.  
    Cheesecake Factory’s limited-edition
    30th Anniversary Chocolate Cake
    Cheesecake.
    Read more about cheesecake in THE NIBBLE’s Gourmet Cakes & Cupcakes section.

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    Fun & Learning: Measure Your Carbon Footprint


    Start your day with a bowl of organic
    breakfast cereal
    . Organic food
    production does not create greenhouse
    gases. If every American converted 10%
    of our foods to organic, it would be the
    equivalent of taking 2 million car off the
    road each year.
      Measure your carbon footprint with the Ecological Footprint Calculator. It’s eye-opening—and fun. Earth Day Network has created the tool to combat climate change. You create your three-dimensional avatar and tour your virtual neighborhood as you answer a series of questions about your eating habits, energy use, mode of transportation, type of residence, recycling commitment and consumer consumption. The Foodprint Calculator then tells you how many “planets” would be necessary to sustain human life if everyone lived just like you, and how many acres of land and tons of carbon necessary to sustain your lifestyle. If you want, you can find out how to reduce your carbon footprint. We were shocked at our results: We don’t eat meat, don’t own a car and take public transportation a short distance to work, although we do take a few airplane trips a year. Our result: It takes 4.3 planet Earths to sustain just one of us!

    You have to supply an email address to start the quiz, but it’s well worth it. Take the next step at http://www.earthday.net/footprint/index.html. (Note: The Footprint Calculator currently has measures for the United States and Australia only, but expects to have more countries by the end of the year.)

     

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