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5 Great Springtime Foods -- And How to Cook Them

by Slashfood Editor, Posted Apr 6th 2011 @ 11:00AM

Strawberry ice cream frozen yogurt recipes Photo: Ellie W., Flickr

It's been a brutal winter across much of the country, but spring is finally peeking its head out from under those snow drifts. Want to celebrate? YumSugar has tips on cooking up five of springtime's most iconic foods. We all love those first sweet strawberries, but this year, instead of shortcake, why not use them to make a rich ice cream bursting with fruit flavor? More of a rhubarb fan? Harness its captivating sweet-tart flavor in a delicate salad. They've given you the ideas, now it's up to you. So hit up your local farmer's market and get cooking -- these recipes will make any meal just a little bit brighter.

Get the full list -- and the recipes -- at YumSugar.com.

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The 6 Best Cookie Jar Cookies

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by Slashfood Editor, Posted Apr 1st 2011 @ 3:00PM

Dark Chocolate Cookies recipe Photo: Big Girls Small Kitchen

The weekend's coming, and there's no better time for baking. The brains behind "Big Girls, Small Kitchen" at The Huffington Post have six great recipes to fill up your cookie jar. But beware: If you aren't careful, these cookies -- from espresso biscotti to double ginger snaps -- might not make it past the baking tray. (Yes, they're that good.)

Read The 6 Best Cookie Jar Cookies at The Huffington Post.

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The Best Ethnic Food Neighborhoods in America

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by Slashfood Editor, Posted Mar 22nd 2011 @ 2:00PM

Photo: Photo: Mike_fleming, Flickr

Of course you can trek to San Francisco's Chinatown for outrageously good dim sum, and New York's Little Italy is a no-brainer when it comes to pasta. But Allison Beck of The Daily Meal has a list of six lesser-known neighborhoods where you can find amazing ethnic specialties. If you're a foodie, you haven't lived until you've sampled a babka in Brooklyn's Little Poland or kimchee in Annandale, Virginia.

Read the full list of neighborhoods at The Daily Meal.

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The 10 Most Unnecessary Food and Drink Inventions

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by Slashfood Editor, Posted Mar 16th 2011 @ 4:00PM

Spork kitchen tool Photo: orangebrompton, Flickr

If you've ever been tempted to buy a kitchen product from a late-night pitchman -- a set of Ginsu knives, a food dehydrator or maybe even that ubiquitous "set it and forget it" rotisserie -- you're not alone. Americans love silly food gadgets, so on the heels of their list of the 50 most important innovations in food and drink, the Daily Meal has compiled the 10 most unnecessary food and drink inventions ever. 'Fess up: Have you owned a quesadilla maker or used a spork? They're on the list, along with 8 other laughable inventions.

Read the full list of The 10 Food and Drink Inventions We Didn't Need on The Daily Meal.

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The Five-Second Rule: Fact or Fiction?

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by Slashfood Editor, Posted Mar 11th 2011 @ 3:00PM

dropped food on the floor Photo: Alamy

Everyone's done it: A coveted cookie or piece of sandwich falls to the ground and you quickly grab it up off the floor, brush if off and shrug -- "five-second rule." The idea that no germs accumulate before five seconds might sound plausible (anything to get that cookie back, after all) but the folks at YumSugar wanted to know: Is it true?

Find out whether the five-second rule is fact or fiction at YumSugar.com.

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A Dining Table on Speed (and Nitrous Oxide)

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by Nanette Maxim, Posted Mar 10th 2011 @ 1:00PM

World's fastest furniture, dining room table Photo: YouTube

Move over, NASCAR, unless Dale Earnhardt, Jr., has a plan for a fuel-injected sofa. The Guinness Book record for the world's fastest furniture (yes, there really is such a speed record, previously set by a 92-m.p.h. couch) was recently set with a nitrous-oxide-spewing dining table that can travel at 130 miles an hour around a race track, reports Popular Science.

Perry Watkins, a Brit inventor of the lowest, smallest street-legal cars, combined a dinner table table (complete with chairs, dishware, cutlery, and even fake food for six) with a two-seat Reliant Scimitar Sabre V8 convertible to create the speed demon he dubbed Fast Food. It's complete with teakettles powered by propane, teaspoons that conduct sparks, and a fake roasting chicken that serves to release the nitrous oxide from the contraption's injection system. "A six-foot plume of white smoke comes out of the chicken's backside," Watkins tells Pop Sci.

No one said fast had to be tasteful. And p.s., don't try this at home with the Toyota and the Wedgwood.

Click here to read the whole Pop Sci story, and watch a video of Fast Food in action.

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Wendy's Breakfast Menu and an In-N-Out Secret Menu Survival Guide

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by the Editors at Serious Eats, Posted Mar 5th 2011 @ 10:00AM

Wendy's breakfast sandwich Photo: Maggie Hoffman and Carey Jones, Serious Eats

Did you know that Wendy's makes breakfast? On his way to work last week, Serious Eats writer John M. Edwards saw a sign that read "Breakfast" in New York's Penn Station. He took this opportunity to order their Classic Breakfast Sandwich, Egg and Cheese Biscuits, Biscuits and Gravy and the Grande Burrito. Find out how they rated here.

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How to Interpret Your Food Dreams

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by Slashfood Editor, Posted Mar 2nd 2011 @ 2:00PM

man dreaming about buttery waffles and pancakes Photos: Getty Images

We all know that dreams are your mind's way of telling you something -- and food-related dreams are no exception. Arthur Bovino at The Daily Meal has unveiled a fascinating new guide to interpreting what, exactly, it means when your brain conjures up food while you're catching some z's. Dreaming of golden pats of butter? You're searching for gratification. A bottle of whiskey? That symbolizes alertness and carefulness. Tasting a sour lemon? Something's bothering you that needs cleansing or healing. Knowledge is power, right? So maybe with a little self-awareness, you can turn that lemon into lemonade.

Check out the full food dreams guide at The Daily Meal.

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19 Amazing Breakfast Sandwiches from Serious Eats

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by the Editors at Serious Eats, Posted Feb 28th 2011 @ 4:00PM

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Forget Egg McMuffins. The Serious Eats team recently scoured the country looking for the Best Breakfast Sandwiches in America, and what they found blows away limp fast-food offerings.

The team hit both coasts and cities in between, eating from high-end restaurants and street carts, to find the most delicious sandwiches. And they came up with some mouthwatering finds: Country ham cradled between fluffy homemade biscuits. Scrambled eggs with house-made sausage and gruyere topped with a freshly baked bun. A chorizo-egg torta.

As Serious Eats put it, "These 19 are pretty flawless. They're the kind we'd set our alarm clocks early for."

Go to Serious Eats for the full list and mouth-watering photos.

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Do You Know Your Celebrity Chef Tweets? Take this Quiz

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by Slashfood Editor, Posted Feb 25th 2011 @ 11:30AM

Giada de Laurentiis Photo: Dr. Billy Ingram / WireImage

Forget recipes: These days, celebrity chefs are using Twitter to post everything from music picks to their political opinons. See if you can figure out who's obsessed with chocolate, who's dissing Taco Bell, and which chef loves "Meet the Press" by taking this quiz from our friends over at YumSugar.

Take YumSugar's Celebrity Chef Twitter Quiz.

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