While sticking cheese in the freezer may seem like a handy storage solution, be warned: Your cheese will never be the same. technically, your thawed cheese will be totally edible. However, the flavor and texture of your cheese will take a turn for the worse.
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Bubble tea (or boba tea) is an institution in Taiwan. While many tea shops claim to have invented bubble tea, one shop on the island is popularly credited with discovering the delicious bubbles that make the tea famous.
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Sweet Baby Rays barbecue sauce consistently ranks on lists of best barbecue sauces. However, there's one Sweet Baby Ray's barbecue sauce that never seems to get the love it deserves. Which one is it?
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Mustard oil holds a particularly special place in South Asian cuisines. However, in the U.S., the Food and Drug Administration banned mustard oil. It's also been banned in the European Union and Canada. Here's why.
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While every business under the sun now seems to offer a loyalty program, fast-food burger joints haven't exactly jumped on the bandwagon. But now, there's hope — CNN Business reports that Wendy's has become the first major burger chain that is offering a rewards program to customers.
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Creole and Cajun are two food terms that get thrown around interchangeably, but chefs who are from the Louisiana area, from where both foods hail, will have you know that there is (or once was) a difference between the two.
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While doctors recommend that the average male needs 3.7 liters of water daily and the average woman needs 2.7, some people may have problems meeting that goal (via Mayo Clinic). It's quite a lot of water to take in every day, and so much water can get to be a bit boring if we're being honest.
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Shucking oysters can be dangerous business if it is not done properly. Fortunately, there is a way to open oysters without the knife. Just keep these methods to yourself and don't tell your elitist oyster friends about how you accomplished this feat, or they might give you a hard time.
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Nutmeg has a warm, spicy, and earthy aroma and while it's often associated with the holiday season, it can be called for in recipes year-round. What if you need some, but don't have any on hand?
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Dr. Brooke Scheller, DCN, CNS and Director of Nutrition at Freshly, says quarantine life left many of us feeling "stressed and anxious [which] often can result in lack of self-care, with something as simple as eating well and feeding ourselves nutritious foods being a part of that."
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A great salad usually hits different parts of our palate by having sweet, salty, and sour or acidic components. That's why Giada DeLaurentiis' unusual secret ingredient makes salads so good. It adds not only great, crunchy texture to the dish, but offers a more filling meal with its richness too.
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No more customized sheet cakes at Costco turned out to be one pandemic-related sacrifice too many for the warehouse store's members. Costco stopped offering half-sheet cakes in June, but on July 21, an intrepid reporter for NBC Bay Area found the half-sheet cake ordering station was up and running.
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One of Chick-fil-A's locations in Huntsville, Alabama was on the brink of needing to go cashless due to their lack of coins, so they turned to Facebook to advertise an unusual promotion.
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Next time you go grocery shopping, pause and look at the ingredients lists on all the foods you purchase. Chances are, almost everything you are intending to buy has some type of sugar added to it, even foods that you wouldn't associate with sweetness. Why is that?
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What does it mean if you are constantly craving these crunchy favorites? In fact, if you find that a pickle is the only food that can satiate your appetite, there are a few reasons why it could be happening.
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We eat a lot of ground beef in the United States. In fact, when you're preparing beef at home, 60 percent of the time, it's ground beef. You might want to skip the pre-packaged ground beef at the store next time you're there, though.
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Andrew Zimmern's passion and talent go much deeper than just a television host, and he has a philosophy about life sure to inspire anyone willing to listen. This is the untold truth of the television host, restaurateur, producer, journalist, author, and food critic, Andrew Zimmern.
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Garlic has been lauded for its health benefits for millennia by civilizations such as the Romans, Chinese, Greeks, and Egyptians. Is there anything to these purported health benefits? Thankfully for garlic lovers everywhere, the answer is yes.
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In 2019, each American consumed, on average, around 34 pounds of fresh potatoes (via Statista). The problem with buying fresh potatoes, of course, is that you can never buy just one. Ever ended up throwing out a bag of unused potatoes? Yup, then you know the pain of storing potatoes is real.
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Because spices tend to be sold in bulk and recipes only call for small amounts of ingredients such as cumin and nutmeg, your spices can lose their pungency after sitting in the drawer for a few years. Spices don't actually spoil and won't make you ill, but can lose their bite.
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If you grew-up in the 1970's or 80's you're probably all too familiar with juice concentrates. In fact, your mom may have even put you in charge of grabbing a can from the freezer to make the morning O.J. Juice concentrates are generally found in the frozen food section.
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The table is set, the candles are lit, the wine is poured. You sit down to a beautiful chicken dinner, biting into meat that's so dry, your dinner guests guzzle half the wine on their first bite. What happened? You listened to Martha Stewart when she taught you how to time the cook on your chicken.
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Whether you are new to the kitchen or not, making mistakes with your kitchen knives can have serious consequences. Unlike cooking shows on television, there isn't a qualified professional to run to your assistance if you call "medic." Some things seem obvious when using knives, but accidents happen.
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If you were most worried about using chopsticks wrong while eating sushi, then you might want to take a deep breath. There is, in fact, a wrong way to eat sushi, and it has everything to do with how you handle your soy sauce. There is quite a bit of etiquette involved with eating sushi.
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Wine and dessert are two indulgences that go together, like flirtation and laughter or dancing and jazz. but it turns out that pairing dessert and wine might be one of the unhealthiest food combinations ever.
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Despite all her accomplishments, Rachael Ray has led her fans astray more than once. Check out some of the lies she's told her fans in the past.
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This summer, snack food brand Cheez-It is partnering with House Wine to release a new combo box in honor of National Wine and Cheese Day on July 25th.
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