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Welcome to Major League Baseball's official opening day, which means renewed opportunities to revel in hot dogs, popcorn, beer, and screaming at your television. Here's a quick menu to mark the season.
Our homemade take on the iconic ballpark snack Cracker Jack. Get recipe>> READ MORE
Thanks to Eric (left) and Ryan Berley, Philadelphia's Shane Confectionery still holds the title of the oldest continuously run confectionery in the United States. The shop opened on Market Street in 1863. In 1911 the Shane family bought it and proceeded to churn out all sorts of candy, chocolates, and buttercreams for the next 99 years. In 2010, the Berley brothers took over and began the kind of painstaking renovations they brought to Franklin Fountain, the nearby ice cream shop that opened in 2004. Shane Confectionery reopened last December. READ MORE
So you're serving ham, but what kind? It can be confusing, considering the number of options, from old-timey, expensive, and artisanal to cheap, slick, and celebrity endorsed. Here are five versions to consider, with what's good (and not so good) about each. READ MORE
Lots of us will have a glazed spiral-sliced ham on the table this Easter. And as thin slices of pink meat lift easily off the bone with just a meat fork, lots of us will be wondering how, oh how, did this most magical of holiday meats come to be? READ MORE
Given that everything from pickles to Pop-Tarts has gotten an artisanal overhaul, it was only a matter of time before someone took on the seemingly lost cause of gefilte fish. The bête noir of the Passover table, it's famously lumpen and beige, all but artisan-immune. Fortunately, Liz Alpern, Jackie Lilinshtein, and Jeffrey Yoskowitz enjoy a challenge: They decided to take on not only gefilte fish but Ashkenazi Jewish cuisine as a whole. The three created Gefilteria, a "boutique producer of traditional Old World foods" that launched last month. READ MORE
Quick, name your earliest memory of Easter. Probably it involves the "grape" flavor of purple jelly beans, peeling pastel-colored foil off chocolate eggs, or biting the ears from a hollow molded rabbit. But for all the nostalgia, the candy most of us scarfed down was sugary and low-grade, with fruit flavors that originated in the lab, not the Easter Bunny's organic berry patch. Now that you no longer believe in a six-foot rabbit who drops off baskets, though, you're free to gather your own treats, ones that actually taste good. And look cool, too—like the Recchiuti Honeycomb Malt Eggs pictured above. Here are nine more Easter chocolates that are too good (and too rich) to give the kids: READ MORE
Another week, another headache for the pink slime industry. Almost a month after ABC News aired its investigative report about the ammonia-treated beef filler found in approximately 70 percent of the ground beef sold in supermarkets, the beef industry is struggling to overcome its little PR problem. As Ad Age reports, the general consensus among "communications, branding and food experts" is that pink slime's numerous adversaries have emerged triumphant, meaning that the beef lobby needs to get its act together if it wants to restore what minimal trust the public had in the product. As one branding honcho explained, "They left their branding flank open. ... They had an opportunity to describe this for the public in a nice way. They could have called it 'Pro-Leana' or something." READ MORE
Last month we ranted about the most overused words and phrases in food writing, and you rose to the challenge! We challenged you guys to wade into our choice for the 40 most toxic food words, and dredge up at least 10 of them in a stomach-turning review of no more than 250 words. Eight of you delivered, posting the radioactive results on CHOW.com’s Facebook wall. READ MORE
In a major victory for embattled sea creatures around the globe, Whole Foods announced today that it will stop selling fish caught from depleted waters or through ecologically unsustainable methods. The grocery chain's new policy will go into effect on April 22, otherwise known as Earth Day.
That means that you have less than a month to buy such red-coded seafood as gray sole, skate, Atlantic halibut, octopus, and Atlantic cod caught by trawls. Once the ban goes into effect, Whole Foods will carry less environmentally problematic catches, such as Pacific halibut and line-caught cod. A spokeswoman for the chain told the AP that it's making the change a year ahead of its self-imposed deadline. READ MORE
If you've ever been to a state fair in dairy country, you may have seen professional butter sculptures of, say, likenesses of President Obama or Harry Potter. Impressive as these are, few of us become inspired to take a stick of butter and start whittlin'. But anyone can make a butter lamb, the edible sculpture that Polish, Russian, and Slovenian Catholics traditionally place on their Easter dinner tables. READ MORE
