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Baked, not fried: potato wedges are better-for-you than fries (photo © Potato Goodness). French fries hot from the deep fat fryer: so delicious, so clogged with oil, so coated with HFCS-laden ketchup, so not good for you. Long ago, we learned to love nonfat Greek yogurt, which we happily substitute for the copious amounts…
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Look closely: sugar is added to plain salsa in Whole Foods’ store brand. Photo by Elvira Kalviste | THE NIBBLE. We love nutrition panels on food products. They tell you how good (or bad) for you a particular food may be. If you’re looking to avoid certain ingredients or calorie levels, you get what…
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One of our favorite ways to celebrate Cinco de Mayo is with a Mexican beer and salsa bar: a tasting of different beers from Mexico, different salsas, and our favorite corn chips from Food Should Taste Good. Bohemia* is one of our favorite Mexican beers. It was named after a region in the former republic…
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If you’ve lived in the South, you may know the custom of eating blackeyed peas or other legumes on New Year’s Day. The dish is served for luck and prosperity in the New Year. The tradition dates back to the Civil War, when Union troops confiscated crops and livestock, leaving the population with little to…
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Here’s a salsa to enjoy while listening to Donna Summer belt “Hot Stuff.” It’s the first salsa we’ve tried from an artisan producer that uses the world’s hottest chile pepper—the ghost chile, or bhut jolokia. Salsa is a billion dollar industry in America, with consumer preferences trending to hot. Lots of people think that, for…
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