I think I had my first fried dough as a kid at the Albany Tulip Festival, which is coming up.
Let’s find out the history of fried dough and its fried fair food siblings.
I think I had my first fried dough as a kid at the Albany Tulip Festival, which is coming up.
Let’s find out the history of fried dough and its fried fair food siblings.
I’m on a (slow-going, years long, I’m-dragging-my-feet) mission to learn more about baking.
Let’s find out the difference between pastry cream and buttercream.
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There are “regular” breadcrumbs and then there are Japanese-style Panko breadcrumbs. What gives?
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When I say “the pretzel” I mean soft pretzels. Because everybody knows hard, crunchy pretzels are not that great.
Don’t you just love definitions like those?
Exhibit A: Banana. Exhibit B: Fruit that looks like a banana.
We may have to dive a bit further to determine the difference between bananas and plantains.
Not surprisingly, pine nuts *are* tree nuts, as they come from pine trees. Which are, you know, trees.
But let’s delve further into the difference between tree nuts and pine nuts.
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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.
These two legumes look awfully similar – let’s figure out the difference between lima beans and edamame.