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This Is The Best Kind Of Pan To Reduce A Sauce In Shutterstock By Karen Hart/May 13, 2021 10:36 am EST Reducing marinades and liquids to beautiful, sweet, or savory sauces can really add to a dish and pull all of its elements together. However, the technique of creating these reductions isn’t simple or easy to say the least; they take a lot of time and attention. Per Bon Appétit, reductions are the result of a method that involves a slow simmer where water evaporates and leaves behind a thick, dense sauce....

What Are Mandarin Oranges And Are They More Nutritious Than Regular Oranges? Shutterstock By Khyati Dand/Aug. 12, 2021 12:20 pm EST Much like apples, there are many varieties of oranges which makes orange shopping particularly difficult. While it’s fairly easy to discern a regular orange from other varieties, things get confusing when you get down to the oranges that are smaller in size which all start to look similar to each other....

What Is Barley And Is It Gluten-Free? Shutterstock By Steven John/Updated: Jan. 24, 2023 3:47 pm EST Barley (scientific name Hordeum vulgare) is, according to Britannica, a “cereal plant of the grass family Poaceae and its edible grain.” But barley isn’t just any old grain. It’s “the fourth largest grain crop globally,” with only wheat, rice, and corn ahead of it. Barley is known as an ancient grain, and for good reason: its cultivation dates all the way back to 5000 BCE....

What The Cup Gene Wilder Ate In Willy Wonka Was Really Made From Paramount Pictures/YouTube By Maeve Reilly/Aug. 5, 2021 4:23 pm EST It’s been 50 years since Gene Wilder and the cast of “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” hit the big screen with a golden ticket into viewers’ hearts. There are many iconic scenes that have become classics since the film’s release, like Charlie Bucket in the glass elevator, Augustus Gloop in the chocolate river, and Violet Beauregarde turning into a big blueberry....

You’ve Been Drying Your Wood Cutting Board All Wrong Shutterstock By Hannah Cole/April 12, 2021 4:54 am EST A clean, calm kitchen with cozy accents is all the rage today. Whether you’re more into accessorizing with brass features or matte black hardware, we’re willing to bet that you’ve dabbled here and there in the most recent trend to take on the modern kitchen: warm, wooden accessories. Step foot into any Target or HomeGoods and you’ll find them, ranging from relatively affordable, to an investment piece made of solid wood....

Aldi Just Brought Back Its Fan-Favorite Feta Cheese Instagram By Erich Barganier/March 16, 2021 1:27 pm EST Feta’s long history has truly helped cement the cheese as a fan favorite. Mentions of the precursor to feta first appeared in Homer’s Odyssey, while the travel memoirs of an Italian merchant from 1494 described the current version of the cheese (via The Culture Trip). Fast forward to the present day, and shoppers still love the unique flavor that feta packs into every bite....

Aldi’s Cookies And Cream Dessert Bars Are Turning Heads Instagram By Erich Barganier/May 17, 2021 11:48 am EST When warm weather has you down, nothing hits the spot like an ice-cold cheesecake bar. Luckily, Aldi has a history of dishing out treats. According to Delish, the grocery chain started carrying frozen cheesecake bites in three flavors — New York-style, strawberry swirl, and turtle — last spring. This year, Aldi may have outdone itself with a new cool dessert for anyone who loves a bit of decadence....

Andrew Zimmern’s No-Fail Method For Perfect Hollandaise Rick Kern/Getty Images By Karen Hart/May 17, 2021 5:53 pm EST Andrew Zimmern has conquered the world of weird foods no one ever wants to eat, but who also revel in the thought of others consuming these oddities. The celebrity chef who often appears as a guest judge on “Chopped” is pretty adventurous and inventive in his approach to culinary mastery. Zimmern is both resourceful and a fan of the waste-not want-not philosophy, doing everything from utilizing olive oil from his favorite jarred artichoke hearts to make tasty salad dressing to encouraging his fans to save the fat from their country ham to cook in....

Everything You Need To Know About Whole Foods’ New Store-Brand Beers Noam Galai/Getty Images By Boshika Gupta/Updated: Jan. 26, 2023 10:18 am EST Whole Foods is a respected brands thanks to the fact that it offers plenty of healthy food options. In fact, according to Mental Floss, the brand takes its stance on health so seriously that it even gives its health-conscious staff members a discount. How does this work? Basically, if its employees manage to stay away from smoking and keep their cholesterol levels, blood pressure, and BMI under control, they can expect as much as a 30-percent discount at the store....

Foods You Should Never Order From A Diner Getty Images By Karen Miner/Updated: Feb. 3, 2023 3:03 pm EST Diners are like sausages: most people like them, but they’d rather not know how any of the food is made. Diners are American institutions, and sometimes there’s nothing like the brilliant burger or excellent eggs you’ll find at one, but they also have the same drawbacks as any other restaurant. They’re trying to get your food out to you as soon as possible, but they’re also trying to keep costs down to survive in a difficult industry....

Guy Fieri’s Unusual Relationship With Billionaire Steve Cohen Ethan Miller/Getty Images By Lauren Cahn/April 20, 2021 12:45 pm EST Guy Fieri, host of the popular Food Network show Diners, Drive-ins and Dives, has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (via Food Network). The “likeable, laid-back California guy,” as his Food Network bio describes him, is undeniably a “culinary rock star.” However, his outsize personality has also made him extremely polarizing, according to The Daily Meal....

Here’s How To Get Your Sauce To Cling To Your Pasta Shutterstock By Rachel Pasche/May 25, 2021 1:49 pm EST We love a good pasta dish as much as the next guy. There are few things more disappointing than a pasta dish that doesn’t turn out correctly, especially when it’s a fairly straightforward recipe calling for essentially just sauce and noodles. Creamy alfredo, delicious marinara, even a good vodka sauce, they’re all really easy recipes and they’re so, so good....

Here’s What These World Leaders Eat In A Day Sean Gallup/Getty Images By Chris Heasman/Updated: Jan. 31, 2023 1:18 pm EST Many, many things divide the leaders of the world. Politics is the biggest, of course, but it’s not the only one — and even the personal lifestyles and day-to-day routines of the various leading figures of planet Earth can be as different as chalk and cheese. Naturally, then, you’d expect the things they eat to vary wildly, too....

Here’s Why You Should Be Toasting Your Rice First Shutterstock By Amanda Tarlton/March 10, 2021 10:18 am EST Rice is one of the most popular side dishes, whether you’re pairing it with a nice juicy steak or mixing it into a tangy stir fry. But everyone who’s ever tried to make it at home knows how tricky it can be to whip up the perfect batch of rice. Unless you have a rice cooker, where you can just set it and forget it, rice is one of the more finicky foods to cook....

How Coffee Beans Can Help You After Chopping Onions Shutterstock By Aimee Lamoureux/April 27, 2021 6:17 am EST There might be few things more annoying than that lingering onion smell that sticks around on your hands long after you’ve finished working with the pungent ingredient. No matter how many times you wash your hands, that stubborn onion smell can still persist, sometimes for hours after you’ve finished cooking. But never fear — there is a way to defeat the lingering onion scent, without having to buy fancy soaps or special products....

Ingredients You Should Never Put In Your Old Fashioned Shutterstock By Maria Scinto/Updated: April 13, 2021 2:20 pm EST The Old Fashioned, as its name implies, is one of the oldest cocktails on the books. Originally it was known simply as “Whiskey Cocktail” when it was featured in Jerry Thomas’ 1862 The Bar-Tender’s Guide — which, according to Difford’s Guide, was the world’s first cocktail recipe book. By the 1870s, bartenders were already tinkering with this classic recipe to the extent that certain old-school drinkers started asking to be served an “Old-Fashioned Whiskey Cocktail,” which is now the official name of this standard drink....

Inside Bethenny Frankel’s Love Affair With Costco John Lamparski/Getty Images By Felix Behr/March 2, 2021 2:29 pm EST In a bit of “media figures are human too” information, Bethenny Frankel, by her own admission, loves Costco. At least, she did so while she penned a 2010 entry for her Bravo blog, stating “I live for bulk stores in general, but Costco is, as I said, my religion.” The doctrine behind this religion is that you can stumble upon great things there, and it’s a good location for a big family or person preparing for a large gathering....

National Chicken Wing Day 2021: The Best Food Freebies And Deals Shutterstock By Lisa Curran Matte/Updated: Jan. 26, 2023 11:29 am EST It’s been more than a half-century since chicken wings took flight to become one of the country’s most popular bar foods and wing lovers still engage in good-natured debate about who served them first. Even the most casual wing lovers know Buffalo, New York is widely acknowledged as the birthplace of the Buffalo wing (via Buffalo Wings & Rings)....

National Cookie Day 2020: Where To Get The Best Freebies And Deals Shutterstock By Molly Harris/Updated: July 26, 2021 9:17 am EST If there was ever a year when everyone could use a cookie, it’s got to be 2020. Fortunately, National Cookie Day is right around the corner on Friday, December 4th. And better yet, there are tons of ways you can celebrate. Whether you want to make your own cookies or simply enjoy one, there are a bunch of good deals and kits out there to mark the occasion with....

Nigella Lawson Says This Is A Great Substitute For Fresh Coriander Aaron Davidson/Getty Images By Karen Hart/April 13, 2021 6:52 am EST Nigella Lawson is one of our favorite celebrity chefs. The domestic goddess often makes us want to vicariously live through her as she cooks up her famous Buttermilk Roast Chicken or her Old Fashioned Chocolate Cake, which inevitably leads to the very best of us going down to the kitchen late at night to enjoy an extra slice....