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You can take your coffee after your meal, or, like photographer and cook stinkkatze, take your coffee and put it in a marinade. Based on a recipe from Good Eats host Alton Brown -- who uses good strong coffee, cider vinegar, molasses and mustard to tenderize and flavor pork -- our blogger uses chicory, which is naturally non-caffeinated. The marinade is later cooked down as a glaze for the meat. Here it's served with sweet potatoes and onions.

A terrific source for all things porcine (as well as for another killer coffee-molasses marinade) is the Complete Book of Pork: A Guide to Buying, Storing, and Cooking the World's Favorite Meat, by Bruce Aidells.

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Marinated and then glazed with a sweet and savory mix of balsamic vinegar, honey, soy sauce and brown sugar, these chicken drumsticks are über-moist finger food.

Although we often think of Asian cuisine when we hear sesame chicken, this recipe, from Everyday Italian's Giada De Laurentiis (and photographed by jpellgen, who cooked it up himself), pays tribute to Italian flavors not only with the balsamic but also the rosemary and parsley. A scattering of sesame seeds adds nutty flavor, and gives the tender meat a nice crunch.

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A little yogurt can elevate ho-hum marinated chicken to new levels of deliciousness.