We are preparing for our next taste test installment: frozen apple pie. Though we're fans of grandma's labor-intensive kind, we're curious if a great frozen one exists. Do you have a favorite brand?...
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Starbucks had new signage today welcoming the Vivanno. As explained yesterday, it's a nutritious answer to the indulgent Frappuccino, with only 250 calories for the 16-ounce Orange Mango Banana flavor, and 270 calories for the Banana Chocolate. Are they worth it? Fewer calories than a Jamba Juice smoothie or a Frappuccino, but they're gross. Banana Chocolate After tasting one spoonful of the Banana Chocolate, Ed Levine compared it to milk of magnesia. Yum! Chewable tablets that relieve heartburn! Watery, with fake chocolate powder undertones, this isn't good. The closest Jamba Juice counterpart: Peanut Butter Moo'd, minus the peanut butter part. Vanilla frozen yogurt, chocolate "Moo'd base," soy milk, ice, and frozen bananas yielded no discernible flavor, but was more...
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Starbucks is unleashing another "healthy" answer to the extra caramel Frappuccino with extra whip. Launching Tuesday, the "Vivanno" will taste, look, and act like a smoothie but since it's "so much more than a smoothie" according to Starbucks, they won't let you call it one. The Vivanno will come in two flavors: Orange Mango Banana Blend, made with Naked Juice, protein and fiber powders, milk, and ice, with 227 calories in a grande. In the Banana Chocolate Blend, mocha syrup replaces the juice, and there's 270 calories for the same 16 ounces. Each blend also contains a whole banana, which Starbucks really wants you to know and love. According to one barista blogger, staffers were reminded repeatedly that there's “at...
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This frosty Dryer's lime-flavored fruit bar eaten by Joy K looks very tempting in light of the hot and humid, sweat inducing, brain melting heat we've been having these past three days in New York City. Related Photo of the Day: Fave Popsicle Photo of the Day: Pink Panther Ice Pop Photo of the Day: Shave Ice at Ward Farmers' Market...
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I love chevre, I really do. All kinds: domestic chevre, French chevre, fresh chevre, aged chevre, even goat's milk cheddar. Hell, I like Coach yo-goat yogurt drinks. But try as I might to love Laloo's Goat's Milk Ice Cream, I just can't. At least not the Deep Chocolate flavor. It's just too, well, goaty. Each spoonful gives you three intense, distinct flavor hits: first the goatiness hits your taste buds like a sledgehammer, then the chocolate kicks in, and just when you think the chocolate is going to carry Laloo to flavor victory, the goatiness comes back with a vengeance. Maybe the vanilla or the molasses flavors will be better. I will give them a try, but I can't say...
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Sorbet eaten in moderation is a dieter's best friend. Some of the best commercial sorbets on the market contain a hundred calories in a serving. Of course it's hard to limit yourself to a single serving of sorbet if it's really good, but that's a problem that can be solved by a creative sorbet manufacturer. When I found myself perusing the ice cream selection at Whole Foods the other day, I came upon Blue Moon Sorbets, made in Queechee, Vermont, undoubtedly by some old hippies that went to college when I did in the late sixties. I bought two pints, Blackberry Lime and Pear Ginger. They cost $5.00, or half of what a pint of Capogiro's sorbetto costs. They are...
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