I don't know exactly how cranberry sauce came to be such an integral part of the Thanksgiving meal. What I do know is that it acts as a prefect sweet-tart palate cleanser to break up the otherwise savory components of...
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Grapefruits are one of my favorite cold weather foods. Not only are they packed with flu-fighting vitamin C, their bright flavor is like a mini burst of sunshine. Often I peel and eat them unadorned, like oranges or clementines. But...
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Been wondering all week about the gooey, nut-studded, fudge-drenched dessert on the cover of Chocolate Epiphany? It's a flourless milk chocolate cake with grapefruit and hazelnuts. The recipe is simple to prepare and yields extraordinary results. The mild milk chocolate...
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In 2000, Odessa Piper, the founding chef and former owner of L'Etoile Restaurant in Madison, Wisconsin, told Wisconsin Trails magazine that generations of Piper women have been candying grapefruit peel by a three-day process that I have since incorporated...
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