Specialty Food Awards

When I saw the information yesterday about this year's awards from the Specialty Food Association, my eyes glanced quickly passed the baking mixes and chocolates, proceeding down the page to my pet subjects (I was going to say "pet foods" but that sounded just not quite right...): salty-crunchy things and [...]

2020-01-23T23:48:39+00:00April 20th, 2017|Food and Drink, Food Products, Salty Snacks|

Fancy Food Show, New York Edition

I went. I saw (and tasted). Not sure if I conquered, but I did my best. Last week was my first trip to the New York version of the annual bi-coastal specialty food extravaganza known as the Fancy Food Show, put on by the Specialty Food Association It's at least [...]

2020-02-05T22:50:28+00:00July 6th, 2015|Food and Drink, Food Products|

Snacky Highlights from Fancy Food ’13

Spanish potato chips cooked in extra virgin olive oil, crackers made with pilsner and porter beers, crunchy seaweed snacks coated with rice flour, and countless variations on flavored popcorn--it was quite the snacker's paradise among the vast array of products at this year's Fancy Food Show, which wrapped up this [...]

2013-02-01T18:12:31+00:00January 26th, 2013|Food Products, Salty Snacks|

The Halloween Grinch

"Should I pick up some candy on the way home?" my husband asked this morning. "No." "So...we'll just turn off the lights again?" Yep. Can't believe I'm admitting it. But really, I just don't care much at all for this holiday. Never was into the whole idea of costumes & [...]

2012-10-31T15:09:34+00:00October 30th, 2012|Food and Drink|

Glorious Guacamole

So, my next book Salty Snacks is going to be released last week of September.... After all those months creating and testing recipes, doing research, talking with countless folks about the world of salty snacks and some of their favorite preparations -- editing, tweaking, pacing in consternation, editing some more. This [...]

2012-08-16T20:52:37+00:00August 16th, 2012|Cooking at Home, Farming and Farmers Markets|

Quick Snacks: Puff Pastry Straws

The unexpected White Thanksgiving we experienced here in Seattle certainly threw us all some curve balls. The end result at my house was that--for the first time in many years--my Thanksgiving dinner table didn't include any of my blood relations. Brother sick, niece working, sister stuck on Queen Anne hill, [...]

2011-01-25T03:08:34+00:00December 12th, 2010|Cooking at Home|

Cooking at Home: Caramel Corn

This is an old friend I hadn't visited with for some time. The subject of caramel corn came up in a recent conversation and it set me on a nostalgic trip back to when I used to cook up batches of the stuff at home. So I dug out this [...]

2008-05-29T13:47:10+00:00May 29th, 2008|Cooking at Home|

Rediscovering Tater Tots

“You gonna to eat your tots?"  --Napoleon Dynamite I tried making it through the movie Napoleon Dynamite a couple of times. I just never quite got it, the humor and the appeal of this indie flick. But in missing the point of ND, I clearly also missed something of a [...]

2023-06-16T17:12:31+00:00March 13th, 2008|Food and Drink|
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