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Yeah you right! A spotlight on Creole cooking

Native to New Orleans, Creole-style cooking is the product of a lively blend of cultures that came together in the Big Easy, including French, Spanish, West African, Native American, Italian, Irish and Portuguese. While Creole and Cajun cooking share some similarities (see Did you know? below), Creole dishes include a wider variety of spices, soups […]

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Baking the perfect brunch

The inspiration for brunch can be traced back hundreds of years and a continent away to when the British upper class  or at least their kitchen staff  prepared early lunches of chicken galantines, sliced headcheese and port wine to feed gentlemen between their morning and afternoon fox hunting. These days, were more likely […]

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Discover some scrumptious new staples this spring

Spring may have officially started back in March but who are we kidding? May is really when it feels like, well, spring. The sweaters and boots get banished to the back of the closet. Tulips are out in full force and roses return. And our much loved winter cooking staples  like squash, leeks and […]

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