We love a good sweet-and-salty snack. Chunk Nibbles crunchy snack mix is based on a recipe that the founder’s grandfather had been using for decades.

It’s a mix of confectionary wafers, nuts, pretzels, corn squares, and different accents like graham crackers and marshmallows (for S’mores) or peanut butter chips (for Peanut Butter Chocolate).

The treats are both nostalgic and modern, packed full of delicious flavors and textures. You can “truly taste the magic of a Grandma’s recipe in every chunk.”

The snack mixes are handmade in small batches from quality ingredients.

In two sizes, they can be stocking stuffers, party favors, and additions to gift bags.

But before you give them away, make sure you have a stash for yourself.
 
 
CHUNK NIBBLES FLAVORS 

Available in 2-ounce “personal pouches” and 4.25-ounce pouches, flavors include:

 
There are also seasonal flavors:

 
We must admit a preference for Peanut Butter Chocolate and Peppermint (we haven’t tried Apple Cinnamon). Original is nice, but the other flavors are, understandably, more complex.
 
 
A FEEL-GOOD SNACK 

Chunk Nibbles has partnered with Blue Star Service Dogs, a non-profit organization that rescues and trains shelter dogs to be service dogs, and pairs them to military veterans living with PTSF or traumatic brain injury.

A portion of each sale is donated directly to Blue Star. Here’s more about Blue Star and its mission.
 
 
GET YOUR CHUNK NIBBLES 

Head to ChunkNibbles.com.

[1] Peppermint, delicious for the holidays (photos #1 and #2 © QVC).

[2] Pouches are available in two sizes.

[3] Apple Cinnamon is the fall flavor.

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[1] While this moka pot makes strong Greek or Turkish coffee, it is not an espresso machine (photo © Andres Vera | Unsplash).

[2] This is a home espresso machine adapted from a professional model that forces pressure through the spigot (photo © Krups).

[3] Another home version uses capsules to make an almost-as-good cup of espresso as the larger models (photo © Nespresso).

There’s National Coffee Day and National Coffee Month, but November 23rd celebrates a specific type of coffee. It’s National Espresso Day. What is espresso, and how does it differ from coffee in general?

One of the primary differences between coffee and espresso is how they are made. Trade, a coffee trade association, tells us that:

 
In the original days of espresso coffee, this pressure was created using steam power.

And that pressure and extraction is the key difference.

In addition, espresso is a concentrate; coffee is diluted.

Espresso is also brewed as a concentrate, meaning there is less water and more coffee flavor in the finished beverage. That’s why the taste is stronger (although ounce-for-ounce, the caffeine is the same).

 
 
MORE ABOUT ESPRESSO 

The history of espresso.

The different types of espresso drinks.
 
 
ESPRESSO RECIPES 

 
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What green salad would you add to the Thanksgiving bounty?

The team at Diabetic.org turned to online search data to find out which salads were in demand and where.

They gathered 48 search terms from sources like Taste of Home and Taste Atlas and analyzed five years of data to determine every state’s most searched-for salad and dressing.

They also looked at “nontraditional” salads—those without lettuce, such as tuna salad or poke.

While the data don’t specifically answer the question, “What salad do you serve on Thanksgiving,” here’s what they indicate overall:

[1] Our Thanksgiving salad includes roasted butternut squash and pecans in a lemon vinaigrette (photo © Go Bold With Butter).

[2] Another Thanksgiving salad idea: romaine and radicchio with walnuts and sultana raisins (photo © Le Coq Rico | NYC [permanently closed]).

*Frog eye salad is a sweet pasta salad made with acini de pepe pasta (tiny rounds the size of peppercorns), canned fruits such as pineapple and mandarins, an egg custard, and whipped topping. Often it’s topped with marshmallows and/or coconut.

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