Holidays 2009 Foodie Gift Guide

We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers. ~Seneca(*)

Gift Guides
Foodie's Gifts - Here are some of the year's best new products for eating, drinking, cooking and reading... The 2009 Holiday Gift Guide

Chocolate-Wine Sauce ...
... This sauce from Bennett Lane Winery in Calistoga, Calif., is made with Maximus, ...
Florence Fabricant's Selected New Products; from the NYTimes.com




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Cooking Techniques: Basics of Baking

Here are the basic techniques and ingredients to improve your baking skills and prepare the staples before the December rush hits.
Making cakes is all about chemical reactions but you don't need to understand the science of baking in order to produce a cake... Easy baking | BBC Good Food

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Cooking with Thanksgiving Leftovers, Nova Scotia Lobster Salad and Making Baozi : Culinary Journey!

Holidays cooking ~
Thanksgiving leftovers transformed

What to do with all that turkey, stuffing and cranberry after the holiday? Here are some easy options.

Thanksgiving dinner puts a lot of pressure on a cook. But it's nothing compared with Thanksgiving leftovers.
Full Story: Thanksgiving leftovers transformed; LATimes.com

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Asian cooking
The Chinese steamed bread and filled buns known as bao are becoming more mainstream. The best ones have fluffy dough with just a hint of chew...
Full Story: The trick to making bao? Starting with the perfect dough; LATimes.com

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Hot Plate
This antipasto brings to mind an old-fashioned caprese, but with a twist.
..."It's always been a faux pas to put cheese and fish together,"...
Recipe: Hot Plate: Lobster Knuckle Salad A Heavy Hitter; Forbes.com

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Dia-Bao Dough

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Low-Acid Diet for Bone Health and 75 Blogs for Vegetarians and Vegans

And in today already walks tomorrow. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge(*)

Personal Health
Exploring a Low-Acid Diet for Bone Health

Why bone's fractures linked to osteoporosis, are relatively rare in Asian countries, where consumption of calcium-rich dairy products is modest and are higher among Western countries that are consuming the most dairy foods?

The science of osteoporosis and its resultant fractures has long been plagued by some vexing observations. Why, for example, are osteoporotic fractures relatively rare in Asian countries like Japan, where people live as long or longer than Americans and consume almost no calcium-rich dairy products? ...
... Why, in Western countries that consume the most dairy foods, are rates of osteoporotic fractures among the highest in the world? And why has no consistent link been found between the amount of calcium people consume and protection against osteoporosis? ...
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Tips & Tricks
Top 75 Blogs for Vegetarians and Vegans

If you are just starting out on your path to being a Vegetarian or Vegan or if you are a seasoned veteran, finding information about this way of life can sometimes be a daunting task.
With the popularity of blogs, Vegetarians and Vegans now have an abundance of information available to them on the worldwide web. From what to eat to where to find it to the myths and facts about supplements, these blogs will update you on the issues important to today’s Vegetarians and Vegans. ...
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A Culinary Vacation in Campania, Italy

There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought. ~Charles Kingsley(*)

Culinary Travel
A Culinary Vacation in Campania, Italy

The top nine things to eat and drink in Naples, Benevento, Sorrento, Amalfi, and Salerno, including pizza, cheese, and pasta

The Campania region of Italy—which lies south of Rome on the west coast of the country, along the Tyrrhenian Sea—should be on every culinary traveler's list. ...
... Its capital, Naples, is the birthplace of Pizza Margherita (a tomato, basil, and mozzarella pie with the colors of the Italian flag), and its pizzerias are praised (and copied) around the world. The area, ...
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Most Searched-for Recipes

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Food & Drink
Top Ten most searched for recipes

Banana bread and seasonal comfort food are between the most searched-for recipes online. Here's the Top Ten for the past month.

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... pumpkin pie tend to fare well, too, around this time of year. But topping them all, and consistently polling well is banana bread. ...
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Fitness & Nutrition> Recipes for Health
Pear and Apple Soufflé
Fruit soufflés are dramatic and impressive yet so easy to make. This one will impress everyone at your table.
Make the fruit puree well in advance, and ...
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A Vegetarian Thanksgiving

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Health> Well
A Vegetarian Thanksgiving
Mark Bittman’s Top 12 Make-Ahead Dishes
Recipe lovers will be eager to pore over Mark Bittman’s 101 make-ahead recipes today in the Dining section of The New York Times. But for those who are having a tough time choosing a favorite, Mr. Bittman has offered his top 12 picks for Eat Well’s Vegetarian Thanksgiving. ...
... He said of his 101 recipe list: “Note that they’re almost all vegetarian. A few have bacon, or sausage, or prosciutto – or whatever. But ...
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Dining & Wine> The Minimalist
A Frittata Where Eggs Play the Minor Role

Eggs take back seat in this frittata
Mark Bittman turns the frittata by letting the vegetables outnumber the eggs. He recommends two or three eggs and three or four cups of whatever vegetable your heart desires.

MY decision to follow a less animal-product-centric diet a couple of years ago has led me to experiment with a lot of recipes.
But this particular “invention” (I’m sure it’s traditional somewhere) has stuck with me, largely because it is different, intriguing and good. Time to share.
I call it, for want of a better term, the more-vegetable-less-egg frittata, one in which the proportions of eggs and vegetables are reversed, and ...
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FM Brief: Infuse Recipes with Tea

Food and Cooking ~
Tea breaks loose from the pot to flavor all kinds of dishes

"Tea can be used as an ingredient in sauces, salads and desserts. One chef uses dried tea in rubs and dressings, and brewed tea in ice cream and baked desserts."

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Appetibilis ~ Appetizing Posts of the Day

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Culinary Travel: World's Most Dangerous Foods

Travel & Food ~
The world’s most dangerous foods

The most dangerous food requires careful preparation.
Fugu, a fish eaten in Japan and famous for its lethal poison, is one of the aliments listed among the most dangerous foods around the world. The restaurants serving it should be licensed

From mushrooms to fugu, the riskiest things you can eat abroad
Plenty of people travel by their stomachs. Some people’s stomachs, however, have a death wish. ...
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Photo: Fugu wikipedia.org

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