| Ocean Spray Brings the Taste, Health and Heritage of the Cranberry to ...
LAKEVILLE-MIDDLEBORO, Mass., Oct. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- This November, Ocean Spray is painting the town red-with cranberries! Bringing to life the magnificent experience of the cranberry harvest, Ocean Spray's Bogs Across America tour will transform landmark sites in New York City (Nov. 1-3), Chicago (Nov. 7-9) and Los Angeles (Nov. 15-17) into a sea of glimmering, red berries. Each free-standing bog exhibit will contain about 2,000 pounds of cranberries brought in from Ocean Spray bogs across the country. And who better to share the story of the cranberry than the growers who experience the harvest first-hand every fall? Third, fourth and fifth- generation cranberry growers from Ocean Spray will be available to explain the harvesting process, discuss their own growing history as well as share more information about the taste, health, and heritage of the cranberry.
Is sneaking carrot puree into pizza the right way to get kids to eat ...
Deception is a word that doesn't belong at the dinner table, says Liz Weiss, a Lexington dietitian and co-author with Janice Newell Bissex, a Melrose resident, of "The Mom's Guide to Meal Makeovers." The sneaky quality is what really annoys Weiss. "If you are hiding good food from kids, what are you really teaching them about good habits?" Weiss claims to have won over the pickiest friend of her 12-year-old son with almond-battered fish sandwiches. She also likes to saute snow peas in oil and dress them with light teriyaki, or make chicken wraps with peppers and corn. That approach also works for Julie Sebell, who cooks for her daughters, Brooke, 8, and Anna, 5. In her Sudbury kitchen, making a "fairly typical" meal of whole wheat rigatoni with tomato sauce, her girls sit nearby, covertly sneaking slices of red bell pepper from the salad.
Kernel of truth
You'll be begging for a bowl of those sweet, tri-colored canine teeth of pure pleasure.
The history of candy corn is nothing short of the history of America. This is in no way true - but it's a catchy way to begin a paragraph on the real history of candy corn.
Gustav Goelitz, a German immigrant, began commercial production of the treat in Cincinnati at the turn of the 20th century. Its tri-color design was nothing short of revolutionary - no one had seen such multicolored candy before. Farmers loved the candy because of its agrarian je ne sais quoi. Once produced seasonally and painstakingly by crafty hand, candy corn eventually became produced by machine year-round. But Halloween time became the right time for candy corn; the holiday accounts for three-quarters of its annual sales.
Nuts about filberts ... er, hazelnuts
I wouldn't blame a Pacific Northwest newcomer for not appreciating hazelnuts. They're an acquired taste. Not as extreme a project as sushi or single-malt Scotch, of course.
But speaking as a relative newcomer (I've only been here 28 years) it took me a while to enjoy the unique, sweet yet smoky flavor.
All of my grower friends are going to grumble at me for saying that. Maybe they're missing out on a great advertising campaign: "Northwest hazelnuts! Like the people and the weather ... they'll grow on you."
Of course, now I love them. I mean, really love them. Especially when paired with foods that complement their character. Chocolate and hazelnuts is a classic combo. And when you throw raspberries into that mix, the experience can be dynamic.
Hazelnuts also merge beautifully with various cheeses, especially blue cheese and feta, as well as grilled salmon and other roasted meats.
A father's final words: Late author's daughter brings last novel to ...
The books made Wright one of the first African American authors to explore the complexity of the black experience and the nation's racial divide. Native Son and Black Boy are now required reading in many high schools and colleges. Wright wrote -- in long, sweeping sentences and uncomfortable detail -- about the barbarism of the Jim Crow South and the unfulfilled promises of life in the North. His voice was urgent, indignant and collective. `HIS OWN GIANT' Poet Nikki Giovanni, another interpreter of the black condition, called Wright, ``his own giant.'' ''When you read Wright, you got the sense that he was very conscious of who he was and what it meant to be black in the early part of the 20th century,'' says Ward who teaches English and African World Studies.
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