A real old-timer, the Slo Poke Caramel Pop was first introduced in 1926 by the Holloway Candy Company. The company, rectangular caramel lollipop could either be sucked or chewed.
Slo Poke Caramel Pop
05 Sunday May 2024
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inA real old-timer, the Slo Poke Caramel Pop was first introduced in 1926 by the Holloway Candy Company. The company, rectangular caramel lollipop could either be sucked or chewed.
21 Sunday Apr 2024
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inAs someone who grew up on tomato and cucumber salad, I was surprised to learn that this combination was a no no.
Isn’t a salad healthy? The answer is yes, but the tomato/cucumber pairing work against each other in our stomachs.
Tomatoes are an excellent source of vitamin C ,according to the USDA — in fact, they actually have more of it than an orange.
However, cucumber contains an enzyme that interferes with the absorption of vitamin C, making your digestive tract a little angry, and cancelling out some of the benefits.
07 Sunday Apr 2024
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inTo prepare Thailand’s most famous salad, pound garlic and chilies with a mortar and pestle. Toss in tamarind juice, fish sauce, peanuts, dried shrimp, tomatoes, lime juice, sugar cane paste, string beans and a handful of grated green papaya. Grab a side of sticky rice. Variations include those made with crab (som tam boo) and fermented fish sauce (som tam plah lah), but none matches the flavor and simple beauty of the original.
24 Sunday Mar 2024
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A crispy, rice-batter crepe encases a spicy mix of mashed potato, which is then dipped in coconut chutney, pickles, tomato-and-lentil-based sauces and other condiments. It’s a fantastic breakfast food that’ll keep you going till lunch, when you’ll probably come back for another.
03 Sunday Mar 2024
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filling, Food, Japanese, Okonomiyaki, pancake, sweet and savory
Okonomiyaki is a savory pancake that is made with a batter of flour, eggs, and grated yam. It is typically filled with various ingredients such as cabbage, pork belly, and shrimp, and topped with a sweet and savory sauce.
19 Monday Feb 2024
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inIf you thought Cranberry Holiday Surprise was pushing it, just wait until you get a load of this recipe. Cranberry Candle Salad is exactly what it sounds like – a cranberry “salad” made with (you guessed it!) mayonnaise and gelatin. But wait, there’s more. This salad doubles as a candle. Way to up the ante, Hellmann’s.
Gelatin desserts weren’t a thing until the end of the medieval era. Even then, some of the dishes were stabilized by pectin (a jelly-like substance found in the cell walls of fruits) instead of actual gelatin.
04 Sunday Feb 2024
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Rich Apple Fool is made with two pounds of “cooking” apples, castor sugar, orange juice (or water), and cream. Today, apple fools are made without the addition of food coloring.
21 Sunday Jan 2024
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Gyro is the national food of Greece. Gyro or yupo means “turn.”
Greek gyro is similar to Turkish doner kebab or the Middle Eastern shawarma. While kebabs and shawarma are made of beef or lamb, typical Greek gyro are made of pork or chicken.
07 Sunday Jan 2024
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Hummus is a Middle Eastern spread of mashed chickpeas and fava beans. The mashed beans are blended with tahini, lemon juice, olive oil, salt and garlic.
24 Sunday Dec 2023
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inA liquid delicacy, absinthe gained notoriety in the 19th century. This was due to a cocktail of bad publicity, bad feeling from other alcohol manufacturers and rumours of toxicity due to thujone – a toxic compound found in one of absinthe’s key ingredients, wormwood. Long used as a folk medicine (the name comes from the Greek apsinthion) the drink carried a charismatic mythology that made it popular with bohemian creatives who revered it for its particular type of intoxication. Containing around 60% alcohol, a distinctive emerald green colour and branded with a fairy, it was consumed by Picasso, Oscar Wilde and Vincent Van Gogh, amongst others.
The green fairy became the green devil when rumours of madness and hallucinations – eagerly stoked by temperance campaigners – transformed the drink’s reputation into a catalyst for wickedness. This came to a head in Switzerland in 1905, when a labourer named Jean Lanfray murdered his pregnant wife and two children after an extended binge of absinthe and other intoxicants. Swiftly outlawed, it remained banned in Switzerland until 2005, and France until 2011. Today the drink is undergoing a reputation reassessment, and a artisan revival in Europe– though it is still not for the faint hearted.