"whipped cream" news and stories

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• A famous Boston food landmark was destroyed by fire this week.
• The taste-testers at the Globe sample the best and worst store brownie mixes.
• The price of rice has gone up too.
• A new bar has opened in the Back Bay, but it actually has a long history already.
• What is the Wine Buying Horizon?
• Restaurant reviews: Fody's Great American Tavern and Foppiano's.
• This week's recipes: Whitefish Salad, Crab Cakes, Snowy Casserolly, Strawberry-Rhubarb Compote, and Red Velvet Cupcakes.

Sometimes I wonder how many different recipes there can be for one type of food. We post a lot of recipes here at Slashfood, and while some of the recipes are exotic and complex, some are for very basic foods that we've made and/or eaten hundreds of times over the years. Take Chocolate Pudding for example. If it's basic chocolate pudding, how many different ways are there to make it? I guess it's all in the chocolate you use.

This recipe is from The Joy of Cooking. I have to have it with whipped cream on top. I love that combo of chocolate and whipped cream you get when you sink your spoon in and have a bunch of each on your spoon and put it into your mouth.

Many of the Ice Cream holidays seem to be in July: National Ice Cream Day, National Ice Cream Soda Day, National Vanilla Ice Cream Day, even Creative Ice Cream Flavor Day. Today it's Hot Fudge Sundae Day.

Of course, there are many different definitions of a hot fudge sundae, and many ways to make them, depending on what you like. Here's one for an Italian Hot Fudge Sundae, which uses espresso and Amaretto. Here's a Hot Fudge Sundae Cake you can make, while CDKitchen has some Hot Fudge Sundae Brownies.

For a real basic recipe, check out eHow's step by step guide. But I would just go crazy and put together the ice cream and toppings you like. Nicole had a nice list of sundaes a while back and most of them including hot fudge.

The Cinnamon Dolce Latte is back on Starbucks menu boards as of a few days ago, although a friendly store or two may have started making the popular drinks just before the New Year if you were lucky. Cinnamon Dolce is typically an indulgent drink, made with espresso, steamed milk and a sweet syrup flavored with cinnamon, butter and brown sugar. The standard comes topped with whipped cream and cinnamon sprinkles, as well. But due to the drink's popularity and the increasingly health-conscious customer base, Starbucks has introduced a sugar-free Cinnamon Dolce syrup this year as an alternative to the standard. It has the same flavors, but zero calories. Made with nonfat milk (and no whipped cream), a tall sugar-free Cinnamon Dolce Latte has only 90 calories, an impressive reduction from a tall-sized regular CDL made with whipped cream and whole milk, which has 340 calories (260 without the whipped cream).