Fruits & Vegetables

That is a pickle—even a dilly of a pickle. Perhaps you’ve gotten yourself into a pickle.Such colloquialisms convey a sense of distress. And from the cucumber’s perspective, involuntarily immersed into inhospitably acidic vinegar, you can sense the metaphorical point.Before refrigerators and freezers, food-preservation techniques like drying, salting and sugaring prolonged our culled sustenance. But this preservationist trio sits alongside another ...

If you have been into a bar during the last five years, you have no doubt noticed that bartenders have finally gotten their mojo back. They lost it sometime around the invention of the Harvey Wallbanger. Bartenders didn’t invent new drinks then—no one was really interested. Bar owners only wanted to know two things. How fast are you? How many ...

Killer spinach. Dangerous peanut butter. Poison pet food. Toxic canned beans. Risky pot pies. In the wake of such events, it’s no wonder that the latest “U.S. Grocery Shopper Trends” survey from Food Marketing Institute (FMI), Arlington, VA, shows consumer confidence in food safety at an all-time low. From 1996 to 2006, 82% of consumers reported they were “completely” or ...

Feta cheese salads, gyros, baklava and triangles of spanakopita are the items most people in the United States associate with Greek food. But not one of these items has anything to do with what this country is currently experiencing: a Greek revival! Traditional foods from different regions of Greece today are served at a slew of Greek restaurants, including QSR ...

For a chef, creating a flavorful, fresh tomato sauce is easy. Starting with the best ingredients and following our taste buds made it difficult to go wrong when creating the goldstandard, chef-driven recipe here.Creating a manufactured version—for Paradise Tomato Kitchens, Louisville, KY—with the same flavor profile as the gold standard was the challenge, and put into play many factors a ...