The earliest recorded recipes produce a boiled custard with pecans added, which is then baked in a pie crust. Some have stated that the French invented pecan pie soon after settling in New Orleans, after being introduced to the pecan nut by Native Americans. Believe or not, July 12 is National Pecan Pie Day. Number […]
Mango Fizz
Mangoes have been cultivated in South Asia for thousands of years and reached East Asia between the fifth and fourth centuries BC. By the 10th century AD, cultivation had begun in East Africa. The 14th-century Moroccan traveler Ibn Battuta reported it at Mogadishu. Cultivation came later to Brazil, the West Indies, and Mexico, where an […]
Broccoli Apple Smoothie
Imagine it is the perfect summer day. It’s warm, but not hot. The sky is flecked with little tufts of cloud, drifting lazily. The air is sweet with the smell of grass, and everywhere you look the world is bright, and blooming, and green. Somewhere in the distance you hear children running through sprinklers, which […]
Vegan Cookies Invade Your Cookie Jar
Vegan cookies are going to invade your cookie jar, one delicious bite at a time. Join award-winning bakers Isa Chandra Moskowitz and Terry Hope Romero (authors of the hit cookbook Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World) as they continue their world-domination mission—with dairy- and egg-free batches of everyone’s favorite treats. Vegan Cookies Invade Your Cookie […]