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The Health Case for High Cocoa Dark Chocolate in Moderation

By: enoch • Wine & Food • 109 Comments • 30 minutes 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 • 4 weeks 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 • one month 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 • 2 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 • 2 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 • 2 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 • 3 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 • 3 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 • 4 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 • 4 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 • 4 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 • 5 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 • 5 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 • 5 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 • 6 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 • 6 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 • 7 months ago

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 • 7 months ago

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 • 8 months ago

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...

Food, Family, Friends and Fellowship

By: enoch • Wine & Food • 111 Comments • 8 months ago

As this humorous graphic depicts, food can bond friends and family alike on holidays, special days and even mundane occasions. Please share what foods, when, how and why bring you together with...

FoodPorn: Baja Shrimp Tacos

By: tfargo • Wine & Food • 14 Comments • 8 months ago

Tacos. Is there really anything more be said?? The quintessential street food of Mexico from the gulf to Baja and naturalized into our American culture. A Proper street taco is a handheld...

12 top ways Israel feeds the world

Via: buzz-of-the-orient • Wine & Food • 12 Comments • 9 months ago

12 top ways Israel feeds the world From drip irrigation to natural pesticides, Israeli innovations are helping to fill hungry bellies everywhere, but particularly in the developing world. By...

A Beer From the Middle Ages Is Making a Serious Comeback

Via: spikegary • Wine & Food • 34 Comments • 9 months ago

Hop-forward beer is all the rage today, but in the middle ages many imbibers preferred brews that skewed towards the sweeter side. Now, centuries after it fell out of fashion, Atlas Obscura...

Do You Have a Favourite Chinese Restaurant?

By: buzz-of-the-orient • Wine & Food • 141 Comments • 9 months ago

Do You Have a Favourite Chinese Restaurant? and a Favourite Chinese Dish? Entrance of a restaurant in the mall next to my apartment Some Chinese restaurants outside of China or Taiwan serve...

The Scientists Trying to Save Beer from Climate Change

Via: bob-nelson • Wine & Food • 1 Comments • 9 months ago

A warmer, drier future is coming for our hops. Luckily, these folks have developed a nice little workaround, thanks to a gene-editing tool that could help create a hop-free beer. This shouldn’t...