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5 Questions that Will Help You Determine Where You Should Eat

Where to eat? Where should we go? What kind of food does everyone want? When a group decides to go out to eat, it can be quite a trial to get every to agree on where to go. Gourmet food, steaks, chicken wings, fast food, food delivery, carry out; the amount of choices of restaurants and the type of food that is out there makes it so difficult to try and go anywhere. Half the time we end up just ordering a pizza because it’s hard to go wrong there. Of course, then there’s the argument about whether chicken or olives belong on pizza and how Joe hates veggies on his pizzas but Sally won’t eat a pizza without it. Food has got to be one of the main tribulations of life around America. So, here is a list of questions that you can bring before your group in order to help you all choose where to go.

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07.27.16

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Running a Successful Ice Cream Business in the Winter

Ice cream is a popular American dessert. It is timeless and has so many available flavors that most people can find a flavor that they really enjoy. It is also a great treat for young children, who really enjoy the cold and sugary contents. It is a popular desert option in the summer months, because it is a great way to cool down on a hot summer day. In fact, many ice cream businesses and cream shops do some of their best business during the summer months. Their business may slow down during the winter months, but they are often able to make up for it during the summer. There are ways to ensure that they stay competitive and provide their customers with quality ice cream.

In a given two week period, according to research by NPD Group, 40% of Americans will eat ice cream. This is all year long, an Continue reading →

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07.17.16

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Wedding Menus Vary by Budgets and Reception Locations

Two weekends. Two weddings.
Not since your college days have you had a schedule that included two weddings in the same month, but your your family was enjoying the celebrations. The first wedding of the summer was an opportunity to reconnect with family members and dance with cousins. The second wedding was a chance to introduce your two teenage daughters to your college friends and dance with a younger crowd.
At both weddings, your daughters focused on the dresses, the decorations, and the dance floor. Your husband, on the other hand, was into critiquing the event menus. In fact, he found it a challenge to try all seven flavors of the petite cupcakes at the family wedding. This cupcake critique, of course, took place after he had encouraged your daughters to be among the first in line for t Continue reading →

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06.24.16

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What You Didn’t Know About Chocolate

When you think of life’s little pleasures, what do think of? A jar of freshly picked wildflowers in the sunlight? A warm breakfast shared with those you love? Snow, freshly fallen and formed in to a sphere in the cup of your mitten, glistening and white? One of the images that most likely comes to your mind is that of a bar of chocolate, and the associated sensations of it melting in your mouth. Seriously, what would life be without chocolate? For those with a culinary thumb, it offers thousands of possibilities in the kitchen and beyond — just make sure you source your chocolate from a responsible wholesale chocolate supplier.

It is not in fact, high in caffeine. Another myth — busted. A 1oz bar of milk chocolate contains only 5-6mg of caffeine. This is significantly less than in coffe Continue reading →

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06.16.16

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How to Enhance Your Dishes With Specialty Produce Such as Edible Candy Flowers

Plate presentation is a true artform, and is essential to the success of a dish — just as much as its taste and flavor is. While people think that taste is all that matters, the truth is that we eat with our eyes. Evolutionary speaking, we are taught to reject foods that are aesthetically displeasing, as that means that it might be poisonous or dangerous for us to consume. That being said, it is often a deciding factor for a patron of a restaurant or a dinner guest at your home.
So how do you create a delicious and aesthetically pleasing experience for your guest? The answer is simple, and lies is what types of textural and visual elements you arrange on their meal plate. The easiest way to do so is with specialty produce.
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05.24.16

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The Importance of the Wedding Brunch

Spring is here and wedding season is upon us. Many people choose to get married during the spring months because it is not too hot or too cold. The flowers are beginning to bloom and it makes for beautiful scenery backgrounds. A lot goes into the wedding planning process, all of which is often unseen during the actual event. Guests simply show up, enjoy the ceremony, have dinner, celebrate and then go back to their hotel. They don?t see all of the planning, preparation and details that it took to pull off the entire event. Brides are constantly looking for unique wedding places to get married at and for unique ways to make their day different than any Continue reading →

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05.05.16

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6 Frozen Yogurt Combos for Indecisive Eaters

With more than 2,500 frozen yogurt shops, chances are you’ll never be too far from one this summer. That’s great news for frozen dessert lovers (9 out of 10 households will admit to eating it on the reg), but it might be nerve-wracking for we sweets-loving fiends who can never make up our minds about just one thing at a time.

Frozen yogurt shops are both the best and worst places for indecisive eaters. The dizzying array of fro-yo flavors and toppings alike is a buffet dream come true. Chocolatey, fruity, creamy, crunchy, sweet, salty… Like Pokemon, you might feel like you’ve gotta catch ‘em all. Inevitably, though, your yogurt cups end up tasting like a random pile of flavors every time — delicious, but uno Continue reading →

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04.20.16

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Tips for Planning a Fabulous Beach Wedding

Few things can match the romantic feel of a wedding on a beach. Nearly 35% of couples have outdoor weddings making them very popular events. Because so many couples prefer to have their ceremony and receptions outside, it is possible to rent everything to have a spectacular beach wedding. When you start planning your beach wedding, there are some things you can do to make it really special. From looking at the Chiavari chair rental price to having a plan B for your day, there are things you can do to make your day great for everyone.

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Have a plan B. Even if you do not need to use it, you will experience less stress if you have a rain option. You can put up a tent on the beach or make arrangements for your ceremony t Continue reading →

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04.20.16

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The Secret to Sophisticated Cooking

We’ve all seen that frustrating episode of Chopped or Top Chef where the judge will nibble at something that looks like God himself plated it and then wrinkle their nose, unimpressed. “I’m sorry,” Tom Colicchio or Padme will intone. “But the presentation just puts me off. Simply not enough true leaves!”
Many of us are probably thinking something along the lines of “Oh, come on!” in that moment. After all, who needs the art of crystallized flowers or petite greens when your shrimp ceviche is so incredibly off the chain? Well, as it turns out, Americans actually do care quite a bit about the finer things in life, including how their food looks. Children have exacting preference Continue reading →

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