Toward Healthier Food and Community Change">Toward Healthier Food and Community Change

By: chefenvy | 0 Comments | On: May 2, 2014 | Category : Recipes

At the Herrera Deli Grocery in Bedford Stuyvesant, something is different. Organic juice lines the shelves in front of Sunny Delight. Fruit medleys with watermelon and grapes sell faster than chips and cupcakes. And on a recent Sunday, a customer requested healthier, vegetable-based selections for chips and dips.

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Grilled Cheese Sandwiches Are Being Delivered By Parachute, And We Couldn't Be Happier">Grilled Cheese Sandwiches Are Being Delivered By Parachute, And We Couldn't Be Happier

By: chefenvy | 0 Comments | On: May 2, 2014 | Category : Recipes

New Yorkers, forget that cupcake ATM, parachuting grilled cheese sandwiches are coming to the Big Apple.

Australian eatery Jafflechutes -- a riff on "jaffle" the Aussie term for grilled cheese -- came up with the alternative...

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Vermont Leads GMO Labeling">Vermont Leads GMO Labeling

By: chefenvy | 0 Comments | On: May 2, 2014 | Category : Recipes

Vermont's Governor Peter Shumlin is expected to sign a bill that make the state the first to require food manufacturers to label products that contain genetically modified organisms.

Labeling is important, not just for genetically modified organisms (GMOs) but...

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Rimming a cocktail glass with Carbonated Crystals ("Pop Rocks")?">Rimming a cocktail glass with Carbonated Crystals ("Pop Rocks")?

By: chefenvy | 0 Comments | On: May 2, 2014 | Category : Recipes

The May 2014 issue of Saveur Magazine has a recipe for a cocktail that is rimmed with unflavored "Pop Rocks-like carbonated crystals." I'm kind of intrigued by the idea, but I'm not sure how it would actually work out. The recipe says to "Dip a chilled cocktail glass in 1...

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Cardamom seed">Cardamom seed

By: chefenvy | 0 Comments | On: May 2, 2014 | Category : Recipes

I have had it in ice cream. That was really good. Reading More May Cause Envy...

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We're Just Going To Declare That 2014 Is The Year Of The Sheet Cake">We're Just Going To Declare That 2014 Is The Year Of The Sheet Cake

By: chefenvy | 0 Comments | On: May 2, 2014 | Category : Recipes

We aren't in the habit of predicting food trends at the start of the year. We don't have a crystal ball; we can't read tarot cards; so we really aren't sure which direction the taste buds of the general public are...

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Documentary 'The Sturgeon Queens' Celebrates 100 Years Of Russ & Daughters">Documentary 'The Sturgeon Queens' Celebrates 100 Years Of Russ & Daughters

By: chefenvy | 0 Comments | On: May 2, 2014 | Category : Recipes

For fans of smoked fish and bagels, there is really only one place to go in New York City: Russ & Daughters. Open since 1914, Russ & Daughters is a New York institution, and one of the last remaining "appetizing" shops...

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Bagel Wars: Montreal-Style Versus New York-Style Bagels">Bagel Wars: Montreal-Style Versus New York-Style Bagels

By: chefenvy | 0 Comments | On: May 2, 2014 | Category : Recipes

Everyone knows that New York bagels are the best, right? Maybe not. A just-opened bagel store in New York called Black Seed Bagels has reignited the debate over the home of the best bagels -- New York or Montreal. It's a...

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15 Times Biscuits Were Better As Monkey Bread">15 Times Biscuits Were Better As Monkey Bread

By: chefenvy | 0 Comments | On: May 2, 2014 | Category : Recipes

There are many great things you can do with biscuits. You can smear them in butter and eat them straight -- highly recommended. You can put an egg in one and bake it up -- you want this....

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Can only find curly noodles">Can only find curly noodles

By: chefenvy | 0 Comments | On: May 2, 2014 | Category : Recipes

I can remember a time when I could purchase a bag of flat noodles. Now every noodle on the shelf is curly. Also, when a bag said large noodles, they were LARGE (and I'm not talking about dumplings... just bigger noodles). Now it says large, but they look to be...

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