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How to pick a good watermelon

Via: buzz-of-the-orient • Wine & Food • 11 Comments • one month ago

How to pick a good watermelon A flavorless watermelon is a reason for a good cry. By Robin Shreeves, Mother Nature Network, June 4 2018 A ripe, full-of-flavor watermelon is one of summer's...

Banned bread: why does the US allow additives that Europe says are unsafe?

Via: bob-nelson • Wine & Food • 16 Comments • 2 months ago

Give us this day our daily foam expander. It may sound odd, but in America, your loaf of bread can contain ingredients with industrial applications – additives that also appear in things like yoga...

Scientists discover why grocery store tomatoes don’t taste like anything

Via: bob-nelson • Wine & Food • 15 Comments • 2 months ago

In a new study published in Nature Genetics, researchers including those from the Agricultural Research Service and the Boyce Thompson Institute have mapped the genome of the modern cultivated...

I Broke Breakfast

Via: bob-nelson • Wine & Food • 1 Comments • 2 months ago

There’s no good reason you can’t eat a chicken-parmesan hoagie for breakfast. That’s what I decided last year when I woke up one morning, hungover and ravenous, craving the sandwich’s very...

What Is SPAM, Anyway?

Via: john-russell • Wine & Food • 18 Comments • 2 months ago

What Is SPAM, Anyway? by Meghan Jones via Reader's Digest It shares its name with those annoying emails you don’t want. It comes in a can and is made of…some kind of meat? Whether...

Scientists Played Music to Cheese as It Aged. Hip-Hop Produced the Funkiest Flavor

Via: bob-nelson • Wine & Food • 7 Comments • 4 months ago

Bern University of the Arts HKB The creation of good cheese involves a complex dance between milk and bacteria. In a quite literal sense, playing the right tune while this dance unfolds changes...

The Health Case for High Cocoa Dark Chocolate in Moderation

By: enoch • Wine & Food • 110 Comments • 5 months ago

High cocoa dark chocolate (any amount at 72% or higher cocoa) is known to have at least the following five health benefits, if consumed in moderate quantities. 1. More bio flavanoids than...

How do you like your steak cooked?

By: kathleen • Wine & Food • 49 Comments • 6 months ago

Good Morning all, Yesterday there was a article about how much protein we need in our diets, so it reminded me of eating a nice juicy steak on the grill. How do you like your steak cooked and...

Culture Insider: Chopsticks do's and don'ts

Via: buzz-of-the-orient • Wine & Food • 44 Comments • 6 months ago

Culture Insider: Chopsticks do's and don'ts chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2018-11-22 Chopsticks, or kuaizi in Chinese, are a pair of small equal-length tapered sticks, usually made of wood, used...

What are your New Years Day culinary traditions?

By: epistte • Wine & Food • 50 Comments • 7 months ago

I know that we have a wide variety of cultures and religions among News Talkers and I'm reasonably sure that we have many people who still observe culinary traditions on New Years Day. Black-eyed...

Why Christmas Is About Food

Via: johnrussell • Wine & Food • 3 Comments • 7 months ago

nytimes.comOpinion | Why Christmas Is About Food In a season full of bittersweet memories, cooking and eating can remind us of what is joyful. Ham for the holiday.CreditRomulo...

A Peking Duck Dinner to Celebrate Our 10th Anniversary

By: buzz-of-the-orient • Wine & Food • 32 Comments • 8 months ago

A Peking Duck Dinner to Celebrate Our 10th Anniversary A photo from December 5th 2008. It was a legal civil form of wedding with no guests or witnesses, so no need to dress. Our traditional...

An Expat Thanksgiving Dinner Experience

By: buzz-of-the-orient • Wine & Food • 76 Comments • 8 months ago

An Expat Thanksgiving Dinner Experience A Chinese doctor friend invited me to accompany him to a special Thanksgiving Dinner for expatriates living here that he had attended previously at the...

Chocolate Biscotti with Berry Filling

Via: broliver-thesquirrel-stagnasty • Wine & Food • 7 Comments • 8 months ago

Chocolate Biscotti with Berry Filling, YummmmmmmmmY! I came in from mowing and taking photographs, and gosh darn it, I was hungry! Opened up the fridge, nothing in there that I wanted, nothing in...

Food Porn: Steelhead with Cuban Black Beans

By: tfargo • Wine & Food • 35 Comments • 9 months ago

I can't tell you how much I enjoy good fish (no relation to B.F.). I try to get a piece at least once a week, and eat that piece with sustained pleasure. It always puts a grin on our faces...

The Most Popular Halloween Candy In Every State

Via: johnrussell • Wine & Food • 4 Comments • 9 months ago

I mention this chart not because it has any real meaning, but simply because there are seven states where candy corn is the favorite Halloween candy. Say it ain't so. My own favorite candy,...

How do you take your Coffee?

By: tig • Wine & Food • 137 Comments • 9 months ago

Being in good company, I am a coffee drinker. My favorite is a Caffè latte - a mixture of espresso and milk (1/3 espresso). My particular recipe uses unsweetened almond milk (so not really...

Vegetables

By: kathleen • Wine & Food • 197 Comments • 10 months ago

Lets find out what everyone's favorite veggie is on NT. Lets just say you had to pick only one veggie that you could only have for one whole year....What would it be? {Only one please} Please,...

How do you take your eggs?

By: gordy327 • Wine & Food • 180 Comments • 10 months ago

The egg is a simple, yet delicious, nutritious, and versatile food. It's good for anything from deviled egg appetizers to simply fired eggs for breakfast, to quiches and sandwiches, and of course...

Cheese lovers - what's your favourite?

By: buzz-of-the-orient • Wine & Food • 23 Comments • 10 months ago

Cheese lovers - what's your favourite? Personally, my favourite is Stilton, a kind of blue cheese, and next to that good old well aged sharp cheddar. It should be a little crumbly as in the...

Life as a Farmworker in Yuma’s Lettuce Fields

Via: bob-nelson • Wine & Food • 1 Comments • 11 months ago

Each winter, the fields of Yuma, Arizona, grow half a billion heads of iceberg lettuce. This is what it's like to work as a lettuce harvester in those fields. The lettuce seemed to glow in the...

Food Porn: Another Bodacious Frittata

By: tfargo • Wine & Food • 17 Comments • 11 months ago

Meaty, beaty, big and bouncy... well, maybe not so much, but when it comes to a quick and flavorful meal, frittatas are where it's at (barring food allergies, that is)! So, I'm running short on...

I don't need no stinking Triple Sec!

By: badfish-hd-h-u • Wine & Food • 15 Comments • last year

2 oz Don Julio Reposado 1/2 oz Agave nectar 3/4 oz to 1 oz fresh squeezed lime Shake, strain and pour into a salted low ball glass Cheers!

Hot Cheetos and Takis under fire after snacking teen needs gallbladder removal

Via: johnrussell • Wine & Food • 24 Comments • last year

A teen regularly ate bags of snacks such as Hot Cheetos and Takis before stomach pains led to a surgery removing her gallbladder. Now her mom wants such snacks put on notice. That's according...

Let's Talk Pizza

By: gordy327 • Wine & Food • 144 Comments • last year

Pizza may not be an American invention, but it is certainly an American favorite and one of the most popular foods in America. According to statistics, 3 billion pizzas are sold every year (28...

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