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TOP PICK OF THE WEEK: Gluten-Free Brownies

What if you’re a person with a love of brownies and a gluten allergy?

A whopping 30% to 40% of Americans are sensitive to gluten. One in 133 of us have the most serious form of gluten intolerance, celiac disease.

Deb’s Farmhouse Kitchen knows the joy a good brownie provides. Her gluten-free chocolate walnut brownie is so well crafted, you wouldn’t guess it’s gluten-free.

For those with a sweet tooth to satisfy, Deb’s also makes a snack-like cherry almond granola and oatmeal granola.

Make someone with a gluten-sensitivity happy; send a box of brownies today.

Rich, chocolaty and gluten-free. Photo
by Katharine Pollak | THE NIBBLE.

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TIP OF THE DAY: How To Pour Champagne


The wrong way to pour Champagne or sparkling wine (photo by Diana Myrndorff | SXC).
 

There’s science in everything, including pouring a glass of Champagne.

According to a new study published in The Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, Champagne is a drink best poured tilted—the opposite of how most people pour it, straight into a vertical glass.

Pour Champagne as you would beer: gently down the side of a tilted glass. It preserves the concentration of bubbles, the reason we choose Champagne in the first place.

According to the study, when Champagne (or by association, any sparkling wine) is poured into a vertically-held glass, it loses twice the amount of bubbles. (For those who think that pouring beer down the side of the glass is only to reduce the size of the head: It preserves the effervescence, too.)

The head scientist on the project, Gérard Liger-Belair, is the author of the consumer book Uncorked, The Science Of Champagne.

Professor Liger-Belair is on the faculty of the University of Reims, located in the Champagne region of France. Reims (pronounced RANCE) is the largest city in the Champagne region of France, an area where pouring a glass of Champagne is a common activity among residents.

Now, they (and we) can do it scientifically.

  • Learn everything you need to know about Champagne and sparkling wine.
  • Find the best parings of Champagne with dessert.
  • Learn about Champagne vinegar, made from Champagne.
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    GOURMET GIVEAWAY: Food Should Taste Good Chips

    Food should taste good, and it definitely does if you’re munching on Food Should Taste Good chips.

    Five winners will be enjoying this tasty snack if they win this week’s Gourmet Giveaway—an entire case of the yummy corn chips that come in 11 flavors: Blue Corn, Cheddar, Chocolate, Jalapeño, Lime, Multigrain, Olive, Sweet Potato, The Works!, White Cheddar and Yellow Corn.

    Each of the flavors are evenly baked in, not powder sprinkled on top. They’re all winners 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 wholesome, all-natural, gluten-free chips have no cholesterol or trans fats, no GMOs, are lower in sodium than many chips, a good source of dietary fiber and certified kosher by OU.

    Enjoy the great complexity of flavors that makes these, truly, chips of a different color.

    Retail value: Approximately $40.00.

    Try ’em all! Photo by Katharine Pollak | THE NIBBLE.

    • To Enter This Gourmet Giveaway: Go to the box at the bottom of our Gourmet Snacks Section and click to enter your email address for the prize drawing. This contest closes on Monday, September 6th at noon, Eastern Time. Good luck!
    • Visit FoodShouldTasteGood.com to join their fan club and receive a $1.00-off coupon.

     

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