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Four chicken soup recipes to soothe the soul this winter
Chicken soup won't cure COVID-19, but it might ease your sniffles. After so many months of pandemic life, we're getting better at making ourselves feel as good as we can, even with the coronavirus knocking at the door. (Or maybe even coming right in the house.) January is usually a time when we're brimming with excitement for the year ahead, but with COVID-19 hitting its predicted peaks just as we experience our annual cedar fever season, many of us are digging deep for extra comfort and nourishment. Thanks to the vaccine — and countless "Chicken Soup for the Soul"-worthy stories of kindness t...
Austin American-Statesman
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Kit Kat Thins have arrived, a slimmer version of the classic candy bar
New year, new Kit Kat. The classic candy bar is showing off a svelte new figure for 2021, as Kit Kat Thins have made their way onto store shelves nationwide. Score the skinny new sweets in 3.4 and 7.2-ounce bags, for $2.39 and $3.89, respectively. The trim treat is thanks to the Thins having just two crispy chocolate-covered wafers instead of the usual three in standard bars. Kit Kat Thins are a permanent addition to the fam as opposed to recent fleeting sweets. Hershey, which runs the Kit Kat brand here in the U.S., has gotten more adventurous in the past year, rolling out limited-time flavor...
New York Daily News
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Furloughed chef keeps skills sharp by serving his kids fine-dining menus at home
SAN DIEGO — Nine months ago, Aron Schwartz was supervising 60 culinary workers and more than $15 million in annual food and beverage sales at a downtown San Diego hotel. Nowadays, the 45-year-old father of two is the self-described "lunch man," preparing multicourse fine-dining menus each day for his children, who are distance-learning from home due to the pandemic. After 14 years at the Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina Hotel, executive chef Schwartz was furloughed at the end of March and he hasn't worked since. To keep his cooking skills sharp and avoid going "stir crazy," the Carmel Valley ...
The San Diego Union-Tribune
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Daniel Neman: Stuck inside the kitchen with the COVID-19 blues again
The COVID-19 blues are getting me down. When I’m down, I want to eat something. When I want to eat something during this time of pandemic, I nearly always have to cook it. But cooking is part of my job, so I essentially have to do my job whenever I want to take a break from my job. The COVID-19 blues are getting me down. I have about 200 cookbooks in my kitchen at home. I have maybe two or three times that number at my office, as far as I remember. I haven’t been to the office, except for occasional forays into straight news writing, for nine months. I could have had a baby in the time it has ...
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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Restaurant-worthy brunch recipes re-create the weekend meal’s leisurely magic at home
Brunch. The dine-in restaurant occasion I miss most during this pandemic. I’m not really thinking of those all-you-can-eat grand buffets (although that sounds decadently delightful). Rather, those leisurely outings with good friends that involve waitstaff, luxurious food and a way-early-for-me cocktail or two. A stroll might follow to aid digestion and keep the conversation flowing, before the need to nap pulls me to the couch. These days, working at home means the couch often doubles as desk. The cocktail hour creeps into consciousness at dusk. The snack drawer beckons all day. This January, ...
Chicago Tribune
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Sausage king Jimmy Dean adds plant-based breakfast patties, just one sign that 2021 will be another big year for fake meat
Jimmy Dean, the quintessential breakfast sausage brand, is adding plant-based patties in a product debut that is as sure a sign as any that America is in the midst of meat-free revolution. Jimmy Dean, owned by Tyson Foods, on Wednesday announced the launch of two breakfast items featuring plant-based patties, the first alternative protein products under the 52-year-old Jimmy Dean brand. The egg and cheese croissant sandwich, available at Sam’s Club stores nationwide, uses a patty made with soy protein and egg white, while the spinach frittata sandwich, which will launch in the spring, uses a p...
Chicago Tribune
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After a tough 2020 of small fish and COVID-19, North Pacific pollock fleet prepares for winter season
Skipper Kevin Ganley spent most of the summer and fall pulling a massive trawl net through the Bering Sea in a long slow search for pollock, a staple of McDonald's fish sandwiches. The fish proved very hard to find. "We just scratched and scratched and scratched," Ganley recalls. "It was survival mode." Ganley's boat is part of a fleet of largely Washington-based trawlers that have had a difficult year as they joined in North America's largest single-species seafood harvest. Their catch rates in 2020 during the five-month "B" season that ended Nov. 1 were well below long-term averages. They al...
The Seattle Times
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Your cooking resolutions for 2021: Resolve to cook more good food by starting with simple goals
Speaking of home cooking, I was strolling through a cemetery the other day, the historic Graceland on Chicago’s North Side. Holy cripes on toast, you should see the monuments. This one dead guy, Potter Palmer — you’ve heard of The Palmer House Hotel? That’s him — he’s got an actual 16-columned Greek-style temple with matching sarcophagi for himself and his wife, who literally was named Bertha. Here’s my question: Obviously, Potter (or “Pooter,” as he was known in grammar school) spent 37 tons of cash on his upscale tombstone, but, does that mean he also gets to be more dead than the rest of us...
Chicago Tribune
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Marshmallow-flavored Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups top Hershey’s list of new Easter offerings
Something sweet is hatching this Easter. Reese’s Mallow-Top Peanut Butter Cups — a brand-new version of the classic candies made with marshmallow-flavored creme layered on top of the traditional milk chocolate and peanut butter center — will be hopping into your life in time for the holiday. Look for them nationwide this spring, for a limited time, in a regular pack for about a buck, a king-size pack for around $1.59 and in a 9.6-ounce snack-size bag for $3.79. “This Easter, our star is the Reese’s Mallow-Top Peanut Butter Cup,” Michael Reese, senior brand manager for parent company Hershey’s ...
New York Daily News
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2020, a nightmare for restaurants and food suppliers, may have permanently altered how and what we eat
There were moments, early in the pandemic, when Joseph Musillami wasn’t sure how the family business would make it. Purely Meat Co., a commercial butcher in Chicago’s West Humboldt Park neighborhood that supplies mostly high-end restaurants, saw sales plummet 75% when the state banned indoor dining in March. It halted plans to expand into a 35,000-square-foot facility purchased late last year and more than double its current footprint, and let go of many of its 60 employees. “It started out beyond scary when you think you’re going to lose your house,” said Musillami, whose wife, Maribel Moreno...
Chicago Tribune
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