Memorial Day, the Fourth of July, Labor Day, and random days in October when you’re just so thrilled the weather is still warm – it’s time for backyard cookouts.
Tag: holidays
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Food history: backyard cookouts
As close as it gets to a backyard cookout at my place. (We can’t have a grill.) -
Food history: deviled eggs
Last year around Easter, we shared the history of eggs in general.
This year, in lieu of the recent night of the living egg, I thought we should check out the history behind deviled eggs.
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The Christmas lemons experiment
This past Christmas I tried something new – I gave the female members of my family canned preserved lemons.
My husband thought I was nuts, for not the first or last time.
“I was really concerned when you told me you were giving people lemons,” were his exact words.
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Happy New Year!
Happy New Year!
I’m opting out of my usual “Food History” post this week.
Instead, we’re going to have a little Erin history.
I’d like to share some personal thoughts in lieu of the New Year. I’m reflecting upon the most exciting one of my life so far, 2014 – and the years leading up to it. And, what my New Years resolution will be for 2015.
So, what can I say. . .
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Difference between: black-eyed peas and purple hull peas
Confession: This was a difficult Difference Between – I couldn’t find a lot of information on purple hull peas. Although, what I did find was quite favorable.
In the interest of today being New Years Eve – I do love seasonal posts! – I did want to write about black-eyed peas, a Southern staple and longtime good luck New Years food.
So, here’s what I found with the difference between black-eyed peas and purple hull peas.
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Food history: candy canes
Not much is known about the history of candy canes – at least, not much that is backed up by reliable historical records. But we’ll go over what we do know.
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Food history: gingerbread houses
We learned in the history of Christmas cookies that gingerbread was one of the first cookies to be associated with Christmas.
But what about gingerbread houses, specifically?
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Food history: Christmas cookies
We’re not just going to look into where Christmas cookies come from.
We’re also looking at the specific traditions of leaving cookies for Santa, and cookie swapping.
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Food history: turducken
A chicken stuffed inside a duck stuffed inside a turkey. What could be more festive?
Let’s find out where the turducken came from.
