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CONTEST: Your Favorite Restaurant Could Win You A Trip To NYC

If your favorite barbecue restaurant beats all—and you can write it up in a way that will get judges and viewers to vote for it—you could win a trip to New York City and dinner at a famous restaurant (not stated, but we’ll guess it’s Danny Meyer’s Blue Smoke). If you already live in New York City, we’ll guess that you can spend the night at whatever hotel the out-of-towner would get put up at, and maybe bargain for an extra night given that the contest sponsor saves on plane fare. Or, maybe fly in a pal to join you. But that’s just our guess.

What do you have to do? Tell ABC-TV’s “Good Morning America” about that restaurant and its signature dish. You have until 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, April 19. You’ve got 300 words or less. You’ve got to make it juicy and gooood. Details and the online entry form at http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Weekend/story?id=7249406&page=1.


Mouth-watering barbecue.
But wait, there’s more:

– THE NIBBLE’s favorite barbecue sauces.
How To Barbecue: barbecue instructions and tips.
Chocolate Barbecue Sauce Recipe. It rocks.
Barbecue Chicken Pizza Recipe. Make it at home, with chicken, spicy barbecue sauce, Provolone, Havarti and smoked Gouda.

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CONTEST: Kraft American Cheese Singles

To celebrate National Grilled Cheese Month, April, KRAFT is giving away 2,000 packs of Kraft Singles. Visit Iheartgrilledcheese.com, and tell Kraft why grilled cheese makes you smile. Five hundred respondents will be selected at random each week to win.

We get a bigger smile out of our gourmet grilled cheese recipes. They don’t use Kraft Singles, but do use blue cheese, Brie, Cheddar, Gouda, Fontina, Havarti and mascarpone.

– Check our our gourmet grilled cheese recipes.

– Learn how to make a basic grilled cheese sandwich, with those Kraft Singles or any other kind of cheese.

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TOP PICK OF THE WEEK: Essential Cane Sweet, Hot & Spicy Finishing Sugars

You don’t have to be a skilled chef to know there are secret ingredients that, with just a sprinkle or a splash, can turn an ordinary dish into something special—something that makes family and friends think that you are one step removed from entering the Top Chef competition. These bottles, jars and cans are what we keep in our arsenal of ingredients, to turn that pasta dish into pasta pizzazz, the broiled fish into seafood superb, the bowl of salad from greens to glorious.

With FlavorStorm’s new line of Essential Cane flavored sugars, the game has gotten even more interesting. In 14 varieties, both sweet and savory, you now have magic wands flavored with everything from clove to green chile to habañero—and yes, that’s naturally-flavored cane sugar.

Essential Cane not only adds a touch of flavor, but a touch of beauty. It’s not only for the holidays, but for everyday kitchen witchcraft. The other fun part: It’s affordable…for you, for gifts, for everyday, for parties. Turn the coffee klatsch into a cane sugar klatsch. It you don’t already know what you’d do with sweet onion sugar—cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, main courses, desserts—read the full review. And get ready to shake it!

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PRODUCT: Aunt Sadie’s Kosher Chocolate


Aunt Sadie’s kosher chocolate is also kosher for
Passover.

Kosher for Passover chocolate used to be “the good news and the bad news.” The good news was that there was chocolate, the bad news…it wasn’t such good chocolate. With Aunt Sadie’s, the chocolate is not only good, it’s inventive and fun. There are classics like chocolate-covered orange peel and fruit and nut clusters, and new inventions like charoset truffles, lavender marshmallows and matzo clusters. Dig into the chocolate box with the full review on TheNibble.com.

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TRENDS: American Drinking Habits

We’re drinking less regular soda but more diet soda, bottled water and sports drinks. Some 68% of Americans drank regular soda in 2008, down from 76% in 2003, according to market research firm Mintel. The number of diet soda drinkers rose, with 7.8 million more adults reported drinking diet soda.

The greatest changes in Americans’ drinking habits have occurred outside the soft drink market, as consumers adopt healthier lifestyles.

Bottled Water: 24 million more Americans drank bottled water in 2008 than in 2003. One in three beverage-purchasing adults (34%) said they’re drinking more water and less carbonated beverages to manage weight, health conditions, or concern about high fructose corn syrup or artificial sweeteners. Sixteen percent of respondents worry about the health risks of high-fructose corn syrup, while 15% say they’re drinking less artificially sweetened beverages because of risks.


All-natural brewed Fentiman’s Soda, a NIBBLE Top
Pick Of The Week.
Energy Drinks: Driven by young adults, the number of energy drink users nearly doubled from 2003 to 2008 (to 34.5 million from 17.4 million).

Sports Drinks: In the past five years, 11 million adults started drinking sports drinks.

Mintel expects continued momentum in tea, coffee drinks and diet soda.

– Check out some of our favorite beverages—including regular sodas made with lower levels of real sugar, and all natural ingredients, and health and energy drinks.
– See THE NIBBLE’s Bottled Waters articles and reviews.

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