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Jelly Beans: Do You Eat Them By The Handful Or One-By-One?

By on March 27, 2013 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, Food for Fun and Thought, Holidays, Snacking, Noshing, Tasting

Jelly beans: do you think they should they should come with a warning label, “STOP NOW or you’ll keep eating until they’re gone?” Seriously – it’s pretty darn hard not to love those little nuggets of sweetness that come in multitudes of colors and flavors and get stuck in your teeth! The Birth Of The [...]

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Where’s My PEEPS?

By on March 23, 2013 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, Food for Fun and Thought, Holidays, Snacking, Noshing, Tasting

Do you have a thing for those fluorescent marshmallow bunnies and chicks that were hatched over 50 years ago? They got their name – PEEPS — because they were originally modeled after the yellow chick.  Now they’re made for Christmas, Halloween, and Valentine’s Day, too  – so you can get them in yellow pink, blue, [...]

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Chocolate Eggs And Bunny Ears

By on March 20, 2013 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, Food for Fun and Thought, Holidays, Manage Your Weight, Snacking, Noshing, Tasting

It’s time for pretty chocolate eggs nesting in baskets, bunnies and ducks in all shades of chocolate, and brightly wrapped candy stuffed in plastic eggs for Easter egg hunts.  Couple that with chocolate smeared over little kids’ faces and indestructible fluorescent peeps molded into weird shapes before they’re popped in your mouth. It’s Easter candy [...]

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I’m Lookin’ For My PEEPS

By on March 30, 2012 in Food for Fun and Thought, Holidays, Snacking, Noshing, Tasting

Lots of people have a thing for those fluorescent marshmallow bunnies and chicks that were hatched over 50 years ago. They got their name – PEEPS — because the original candy was the yellow chick.  Now they’re produced for many holidays – in seasonal colors and different shapes. They continue to be the subject of [...]

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Two Easters And Passover: Which Is When?

By on March 26, 2012 in Food for Fun and Thought, Holidays

In 2012, Easter will be celebrated on April 8th by Western churches and on April 15th by Orthodox churches. In 2011, both were celebrated on the same day, April 24th. In 2013, Western Christian Easter will be celebrated on March 31st and Orthodox Easter will be on May 5th. The holiday of Pesach, or Passover, [...]

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Jelly Beans: What Kind Is Your Favorite?

By on March 22, 2012 in Food for Fun and Thought, Holidays, Snacking, Noshing, Tasting, Takeout, Prepared Food, Junk Food

Don’t you love those little nuggets of jelly bean sweetness that come in multitudes of colors and flavors and get stuck in your teeth? Their gummy insides probably stretch back centuries ago from the treat, Turkish Delight.  Their outsides are just like the colored hard candy coating, developed in the late 17th century, for the [...]

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What’s Sweet, Shaped Like An Egg, And Doesn’t Come From A Chicken?

By on April 21, 2011 in Food for Fun and Thought, Holidays, Shopping, Cooking, Baking, Snacking, Noshing, Tasting, Takeout, Prepared Food, Junk Food

Easter Eggs:  The Confectionary Type They’re everywhere and at every price point.  Some are piped with flowers and others are wrapped in foil.  You find them in supermarkets, discount stores, and fancy candy stores. Easter is the second ranked holiday for candy purchases in the US (just behind Halloween) and solid, hollow, and filled chocolate [...]

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Where’s My Peeps?

By on April 19, 2011 in Food for Fun and Thought, Holidays, Snacking, Noshing, Tasting

Peeps: the blazing yellow and hot pink marshmallow bunnies and chicks that were hatched over 50 years ago. They’re called PEEPS because the original candy was the yellow chick.  Now they’re produced for many holidays – in seasonal colors and shapes, of course –  and they continue to be the subject of lots of design [...]

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Jelly Beans: What’s Your Favorite Color?

By on April 14, 2011 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, Food for Fun and Thought, Holidays, Snacking, Noshing, Tasting

Jelly beans –  little nuggets of sweetness that come in multitudes of colors and flavors.  Their gummy insides might have originated centuries ago from the treat, Turkish Delight.  Their outsides are basically the same as the colored hard candy coating, developed in the late 17th century, for the Jordan almond.  The modern jelly bean appeared [...]

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The Goat

By on April 6, 2010 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, Eating with Family and Friends, Entertaining, Buffets, Parties, Events, Food for Fun and Thought, Holidays, Shopping, Cooking, Baking

Katsikaki:  Kid Goat It all started last fall on a trip to Washington DC. I had dinner at Komi, a fabulous Greek/Mediterranean restaurant.  The highlight (or one of the highlights, there were many) was katstikaki, Greek for a kid goat.  I have had goat before, but this preparation was memorable. Fast forward 5 months.  I [...]

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