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1944: Shoefly Pie (all photos © TasteOfHome).

1976: Banana Pudding.

1984: Red Velvet Cake.


1961: Ambrosia.


Thanks to Taste Of Home for this bit of food fun: the popular desserts—and recipes for them—from the year you were born.

There’s every year from 1940 to 2000.

Think of what you can do with these:
- Make friends and family their “birth year dessert” (BYD)
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What Was The Most Popular Dessert The Year You Were Born? - The Nibble Webzine Of Food Adventures What was the most popular dessert the year you were born? Check, it out, along with recipes for every year from 1940 to 2000. From The Nibble webzine of food.

How did the most beautiful disposable paper plates, made by Sophistiplate, come to be?

As a foodie family, Gary and Dan Seehoff love to entertain and set a beautiful table for family and friends.

But post Thanksgiving dinner 2015, they found themselves doing the dishes for days on end. They vowed to go disposable the following year. But...

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The Central European recipe for thin wafers came to the U.S. in the mid-1700s with émigrés from Moravia (photo © Dewey’s Moravian Cookies).

Thicker wafers are exemplified by these Vanilla Wafers, invented in the 1890s in New York City (photo © Nabisco).

This type of sugar wafer, called Neapolitan, were invented in Vienna in 1898 (photo © Schär).

It's National Chocolate Wafer Day. What's A Wafer? - The Nibble Webzine Of Food Adventures The different types of wafer cookies for National Chocolate Wafer Day, plus the history of wafer cookies. From THE NIBBLE webzine of food adventures.

In addition to hot dogs on the grill, here’s something different for July 4th week: a red, white, and blue pizza.

You can also make the pizza on the grill (here’s how).


RED, WHITE & BLUE HOT DOG PIZZA

Ingredients

- Red(ish):

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Flavor your water with (from the top) True Lime, True Grapefruit, True Lemon, and True Orange (all photos © True Citrus).

One packet equals one wedge of citrus.

No fresh lime for your Margarita? No problem!

Try a blindfold test: sparkling water with a squeeze of fresh grapefruit, and sparkling water with a packet of True Grapefruit.

An 8-ounce glass of orange juice has 24g (6

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You learn something new every day (if you’re lucky), and today we learned why bread tags—the colored plastic tags (photo #1) or twist ties that close plastic bags of bread—are made in different colors.

Also called bread buckles and bread clips, these tags or twists are part of a color-coordinated system that marks when the bread was baked and packaged.

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Sweet & Spicy Drizzle Oil, a handy new condiment (photos #1 and #3 © DeLallo).

Just a drizzle adds an extra layer of flavor to any pizza (photo © Like Meat | Unsplash Photo).

Add sizzle to pasta, pasta salads and grains.


What’s sweet and hot and a new condiment for your table (or a nice hostess gift, treat for foodie friends, or a stocking stuffer)? DeLallo Sweet and Spicy Pizza Oil!

Hot New Versatile Condiment: Sweet and Spicy Pizza Oil - The Nibble Webzine Of Food Adventures A great new sweet-and-hot EVOO condiment perfect for drizzling on just about anything--even ice cream! From THE NIBBLE webzine of food adventures.

Castelvetrano EVOO in a handy squeeze bottle is great for drizzling. Buy it here (photos #1 and #4 © DeLallo).

The squeeze bottle option is more flexible than the classic can or bottle. But you might prefer this colorful can for gifting. Note that the can says “Valle del Belice,” where the olives are grown. In the U.S. the olive and oil are known as Castelvetrano (photo © Giadzy).

Castelvetrano Olive Oil In A Squeeze Bottle - The Nibble Webzine Of Food Adventures Luscious Castelvetrano olive oil (EVOO) in a squeeze bottle for drizzling and garnishing. A recommendation from THE NIBBLE webzine of food adventures.

June 7th, National Donut Day, is an occasion to grab a donut, especially when chains like Dunkin' are giving one free with the purchase of a beverage. But we have a better idea: a donut hole trifle recipe.

This easy recipe also counts as food fun. It delights children and adults alike.

Although the recipe specifies frozen whipped topping, prefer the taste of real whipped cream.

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There’s a food holiday for just about everything, and today is National Grape Popsicle Day. We have the easiest recipe for a grape ice pop.

That’s right: Only the frozen treat sold by Unilever and trademarked Popsicle® should be referred to by the capitalized name. Everything else is a generic—however delicious—ice pop.


> The history of the Popsicle®.

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DeLallo Cheese Glaze on Parmigiano-Reggiano and Grana Padano cheeses (photo © DeLallo).

Italians have long enjoyed a dessert of a few drops of fine balsamic on aged Parmigiano-Reggiano (photo © Parmigiano-Reggiano Consorzio).

Cheese plate with balsamic glaze (photo Balsamic Vinegar of Modena | Facebook).


We love balsamic glaze, a reduced, syrupy version of balsamic vinegar.

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If you remember the 1980s, you may well have enjoyed Quiche Lorraine. Along with a green salad and some crusty baguette and butter (not that you need it with the quiche), it was the go-to food for brunch, lunch, and dinner.

It went by the way of the healthier-foods movement, buy is still a special-occasion treat.

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Blood orange Mimosa with reposado Tequila (photos © Cantera Negra Tequila).

Cantera Negra Reposado is aged for up to seven months in used Cognac and Bourbon barrels.

Silver Tequila is aged for up to four weeks.

A classic Mimosa made with fresh-squeezed orange juice and Freixenet Cava sparkling wine © Eric Pancer | Wikipedia Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 generic license).


Here’s

Mimosa Cocktail Recipe With An Aperol Spritz Mashup - The Nibble Webzine Of Food Adventures For National Mimosa Day, a Mimosa cocktail mashup with an Aperol Spritz. Plus, more Mimosa recipes from THE NIBBLE webzine of food adventures.

On May 16th you can celebrate National Mimosa Day with a standard Mimosa cocktail (Champagne and orange juice). Or, you can add a scoop of ice cream to turn that cocktail into a Mimosa Float.

Serve it as dessert for brunch, cocktail time, or anytime.

“I wanted to kick things up a notch, so I added a scoop of ice cream to my Mimosas.

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There are many versions of fattet hummus. In the recipe below, cooked chickpeas are mixed with hummus and spooned, along with yogurt, over crispy bites of pita (photo © Hannah Kaminsky | Bittersweet Blog).

A different type of fattet hummus, more in the bread pudding style. Here’s the recipe (photo © Eva Eats Blog).

Baharat spice blend—read all about it in the *footnote.

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If you have a jar of Everything Bagel seasoning blend that’s been sitting on the shelf, note that it can be used on just about everything.

The typical mix, like Pereg’s, is a medley of crystallized garlic, poppy seeds, granulated onion, coarse sea salt, and sesame seeds.

We first purchased a jar to sprinkle on a bagel and cream cheese.

Everything Bagel Seasoning: Uses Beyond Bagels - The Nibble Webzine Of Food Adventures Beyond bagels, here are 30 additional ways to use Everything Bagel seasoning (spice). A tip from THE NIBBLE webzine of food adventures.

Americans feel confident that their tap water is safe (photo © Cats Coming | Pexels).

Fill a pitcher with your municipal water—it’s safe (photo © Julia Zolotova | Unsplash).

You use the same safe municipal water to cook food (All-Clad gourmet pasta pot from Williams Sonoma; photo © Williams Sonoma).

Dasani and some other brands source their water from municipal water systems (photo

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May 3rd was National Raspberry Popover Day, but we saved this recipe for weekend breakfast. It was a big hit, the raspberries in counterpoint with the popovers’ egginess, the fruit brightened by lemon and orange zest.

We’ll be making them again on Mother’s Day.

Thanks to Driscoll’s the recipe to add their raspberries to what is a fan favorite (popovers!) at our house.

> Classic popovers recipe.

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Use red grapes for color contrast. We like to add some arugula with the greens when serving Here’s the recipe (photo © Wonky Wonderful).

Pair the chicken salad with a Viognier wine, such as this elegant Condrieu from the best producer*** in the Rhône Valley of France, E. Guigal. The 2020 vintage is in the $50 range.

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This recipe adds circles of sweet mini-bell peppers to the conventional tomato salsa ingredients (photo ˙ Melissa’s Produce).

If you’d like to grow your own, you can get the seeds here. Red serranos are typically sweeter and slightly less crisp than the green ones, and can sometimes be a bit hotter. The heat is not related to the red color, but to the ripeness of the chile pepper (photo

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We love fusion food: when to different cuisines mix it up. Mexico meets Italy in this Loaded Mexican Pizza recipe for Cinco de Mayo.

> The history of pizza.

> The history of Cinco de Mayo.

> 85+ Cinco De Mayo recipes.


RECIPE: OADED MEXICAN PIZZA

This recipe makes a 12-inch pizza. It is vegetarian but you can add meat.

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Today we welcome the new DOLE® Golden Selection® Pineapple, bred to be the sweetest and juiciest yet—you can even eat the core.

It’s also an smaller pineapple: The base is just 4-1/2 inches high by 3-1/2 inches wide, enough to cut a thick slices for a family of four.

Or, give one to each person celebrated at your Mother’s Day or Father’s Day dinner. Just tie a ribbon around the neck!

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What food is celebrated on April 27th? It’s National Devil Dog Day!

Drake’s Bakeries, originally known as Drake’s Cakes, introduced the Devil Dog—essentially a whoopie pie shaped like a hot dog—in 1926. The two layers of devil’s food cake filled with cream really took off.

> In addition to a recipe for homemade devil dogs, below, check out the recipe for Mini Garden Cakes (photo #2).

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Try Starbucks At Home limited-edition spring flavors (photo © Custom Mug Cup).

Spring Day Blend is our new every day coffee (photos #2, #3, #4, and #5 © Starbucks).

A sweet treat: Brown Sugar Cinnamon.

Coconut lovers will delight in Toasted Coconut Mocha.

Brown Sugar Cinnamon Cold Brew with Oatmilk Ice. The recipe is below.


While

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Small squeeze bottles fit into your pocket and can be added to your drink discretely (photos #1 and #2 © Drop It Wine).

Add a drop or two to your beer.

Drop It also works with sparkling wines (photo © Champagne Bureau | Facebook).


Are you a wine drinker with a sulfite allergy? Since 1988, the FDA has required the addition of sulfites to wine produced in the U.S. as a preservative?

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Attention home cooks: Do you have a jar of sour salt?

Sour Salt is the secret weapon of chefs and home cooks alike, says Pereg Gourmet Spices.

The jar gives you the power of pure citric acid (also called citric salt), ready to brighten, balance, and boost the flavors in all your favorite dishes.

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Classic peach cobbler with sugar-topped biscuits (photos #1, #3, #4, and #5 © King Arthur Baking).

When peaches are out of season, you can use frozen peaches or substitute fresh mango (photo © Good Eggs).

Always use pure vanilla extract. Imitation vanilla extract (vanillin) is less expensive, and tastes it (think of imitation maple syrup).

You can use pastry flour or all-purpose flour.

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On October 19th, International Gin and Tonic Day celebrates one of the world's most famous drinks. But in the U.S., we have a second chance to raise a glass: April 9th is National Gin & Tonic Day.

Much as we loved the classic Gin & Tonic recipe, this year we decided to try something new: this Spicy Gin and Tonic created by Marshall Minaya of Valerie Restaurant in New York City.

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The splendid Eat The Rainbow box from Farmer Jones Farm (photos #1, #2, #3, #4 © Hannah Kaminsky | Bittersweet Blog).

Oca and sunchokes. Oka, cultivated by the Incas like potatoes, are an underground stem tuber that originated in the high altitudes of the Andes Mountains. Sunchoke, also called Jerusalem artichoke, is a tuber, the root of a species of sunflower native to central North America.

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