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Spice Hunting: Turbinado Sugar
This form of raw sugar is milder than the untamed, smokey piloncillo, but it's a worthy addition to your sugar collection and a potent spice in its own right. It's light but with substantial body, deep in flavor without overwhelming intensity. With such a well-rounded flavor profile, turbinado sugar's uses are pretty much endless, both in sweet and savory dishes.Spice Hunting: Piloncillo
Piloncillo is as minimally-processed as you can get your sugar, short of chewing it out of sugar cane yourself. It's the product of cane juice boiled down to a thick, crystalline syrup, usually poured into cone-shaped molds to harden (the name piloncillo derives from "pylon"). What you get is a sugar rife with impurities that puts plain old brown sugar to shame. Modern brown sugar is just purified white sugar with some molasses mixed in. This is the real deal.Poll: Do You Call Them Jimmies or Sprinkles?
Suckers vs. lollipops, subs vs. hoagies. It's these regional differences in food nomenclature that can drive endless discussions. But what about those colorful bits of sugar that decorate your ice cream cone? Whether you like them as rainbow as a pride flag, or in shades of chocolate only, do you call them jimmies or sprinkles? Take the poll! »HFCS and the Three-Pronged Critique
HFCS isn't healthy, but there's no reason to believe it's any worse for you than cane or beet sugar; HFCS is just as "natural" as any other sweetener, at least according to the U.S. government; and while HFCS seems to have a slightly different taste from pure sucrose, many people prefer it. So why are we abandoning high-fructose corn syrup? It doesn't matter how weak each claim is on its own terms; together, they seem irrefutable. You can win over hypochondriacs with one argument, environmentalists with another, and gourmands with a third. That's the beauty of the three-pronged critique: It's customizable....Pepsi to Use Real Sugar in 'Pepsi Throwback' and 'Mountain Dew Throwback' in April
bevreview.com Starting April 20, Pepsi will sell cans of Pepsi Throwback and Mountain Dew Throwback, which will be made with real sugar instead of HFCS. According to an email exchange today with Pepsi-Cola rep Nicole Bradley (inspired by Serious Eaters' questions): "Both products will be offered at the same price as regular Pepsi and regular Mountain Dew." The drinks will only be available until June 13. Around the same time, Coca-Cola usually rolls out limited-edition Kosher for Passover Coke, also made with real sugar since observant Jews cannot have corn products, hence no HFCS. Many non-Jews celebrate the product as well, believing the sugar version is superior (whether for taste or health reasons). Related Kosher-for-Passover Coke and Pepsi Are...World's Largest Sugar Cube Castle Goes on Display This Friday
It's the moment you've all been waiting for: This Friday the world's largest sugar cube castle made of over 1,200 pounds of sugar will be unveiled at The Westin St. Francis in San Francisco....Nostalgia Via King Arthur Flour's Monkey Bread Mix
My mom's version of Monkey Bread; my version from the King Arthur Flour mix Every Christmas morning for as long as I can remember, my mom would make her version of classic Monkey Bread using Pillsbury dough, with at least a stick of butter and a cup of sugar (if not double of both). I have such fond memories of the bread that I set out to recreate it with the King Arthur Flour Classic Monkey Bread Mix ($12.50, williams-sonoma.com) and its accompanying baking mold ($29.95, williams-sonoma.com). This mix is not about saving time or saving calories; start to finish the process was approximately 3 1/2 hours, including waiting time (and lots of cleaning). For a good laugh, I...Marion Nestle Weighs in on HFCS
Food politics expert Marion Nestle gives her take on HFCS and the new Corn Refiners Association ads in today's San Francisco Chronicle. She's not a dietician but believes moderation isn't the answer here. "The most sensible approach to HFCS and to sugars in general is not moderation. It is, eat less." Previously: Pro-HFCS Ads: Do They Bother You?...Splenda Skirmish After Sugar Lobbyists Fund Study
Last year, a university study determined that Splenda "contributes to obesity, destroys good intestinal bacteria, and prevents prescription drugs from being absorbed." But the research was funded by the Sugar Association. Not to second guess the work of scientists, but this raises questions about the relationship between private sector and academia.Hot Topics: Technique of the Week | The Food Lab
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8 Delicious Chocolate Cakes and Pies for Valentine's Day
Some might say that chocolate on Valentine's Day is about as unoriginal as you can get. We all remember the first heart-shaped box of overly sweet chocolate bonbons from grade school Valentines. But chocolate gift-giving needn't be a cliché. This year, let's bake our sweethearts chocolate cakes and pies instead! Here are 8 delicious recipes perfect for celebrating your love (of chocolate.)
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