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Egg Nog: It’s All Fun and Games Until Someone Starts a Holiday Riot

Egg nog has not always been such a refined holiday quaff. Photo via Flickr user Dinner Series. December 25, 1826, at West Point was not a typical Christmas morning. Cadets stumbled from their barracks, clothes torn or astrew. Many were barefoot, cursing, still drunk from the night before. Behind the cadets, West Point’s North Barracks stood in a state...

Thu Dec 19, 2013 20:27
Stop Ruining Your Christmas Cookies! Follow These Tips to Better Baking

Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. ‘Tis the time of year when amateur and professional bakers alike strut their culinary skills for the holiday party. But not even the simplest recipe or glossiest magazine photo spread can prevent an epic cookie fail. Even pre-packaged cookie boxes like the one below can drive home cooks batty. Photo courtesy of...

Tue Dec 17, 2013 00:34
How the “Sneeze Guard” Changed Buffet Tables Forever

One of the first “sneeze guards” appeared in Johnny Garneau’s American Style Smorgasbord in Monroeville 1958. Image courtesy of Barbara Garneau Kelley. Next time you are at an all-you-can eat buffet, imagine the food displays without any covering: there are flies in the coleslaw, the man in front of you leans over the spread, breathing heavily. His...

Fri Dec 6, 2013 18:36
Why are Cheese and Seafood Supposedly a Bad Combo? It’s Delicious!

Seafood Alfredo: a delicious culinary sin. Photo courtesy of Flickr user Dee West. Italian culinary doctrine – a constitution held up by Italian home matriarchs where infractions can be punishable by no supper or death – is very clear on the subject. Cheese and seafood shall not be mixed. Ever. Yet, if you stumble around France long enough you’re bound...

Wed Dec 4, 2013 21:30
The Best Kosher Wine in Israel May or May Not Be From Israel

Dr. Shivi Drori tests a sample of wine from Gvaot Boutique Winery. Photo courtesy of Gvaot Boutique Winery. Elitzur Eitan has no desire to ever live within pre-1967 Israel. Until 2005, he lived in the Gaza Strip settlement of Gush Katif, which was forcibly evacuated under the leadership of former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. Now, he lives deep in the...

Tue Dec 3, 2013 18:23
This Man Made the First Canned Cranberry Sauce

Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Americans consume 5,062,500 gallons of jellied cranberry sauce—Ocean Spray’s official name for the traditional Thanksgiving side dish we know and love that holds the shape of the can it comes in—every holiday season. That’s four million pounds of cranberries—200 berries in each can—that reach a gel-like consistency...

Wed Nov 27, 2013 22:20

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