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Thanksgiving Drinks: Festive Cocktails, Mocktails and More…

Thanksgiving Drinks: Festive Cocktails, Mocktails and More…

Thanksgiving has long been associated with harvest feasting, but what to drink with the holiday spread? While food may normally form the focus for your drink pairing choices, Thanksgiving - now more than ever - is as much about celebrating togetherness as it is about the turkey, stuffing, cranberries, and pumpkin pie.

How to host a tamalada (Mexican tamale-making party)

How to host a tamalada (Mexican tamale-making party)

If you’ve never before heard of a tamalada then get ready for what could be the next best invention in food-based entertaining. A tamalada is is a traditional Mexican event where groups of family and friends gather together to make tamales, often around Christmastime. What’s a tamale? Let’s start there…

Cheese and Pickles: Take your cheese board to the next level with homemade pickles

Cheese and Pickles: Take your cheese board to the next level with homemade pickles

When we think about what to put with a cheese board, we often turn to chutneys, artisan crackers, and maybe some fresh fruits but you can make your cheese board extra special and even more interesting with homemade pickles.

Cheese and crackers - and wine!

Cheese and crackers - and wine!

"Cheese and crackers" was a school lunchbox favourite when I was a kid. The crackers, always a Ritz, and the cheese, some kind of Wisconsin cheddar. This American tradition of combining cheese with a thin wheat-based product actually goes back centuries. Among many things it was a food ration in the Civil War where soldiers referred to it as a "square meal". Much like the UK equivalent of the ploughman's lunch, cheese and crackers was very much peasant food. But much like my taste buds, which probably couldn't stand a Ritz cracker nowadays (no offence to Ritz fans), a lot of has changed.

 Six top tips for creating a vegan and gluten-free barbecue

Six top tips for creating a vegan and gluten-free barbecue

Just because you're gluten or dairy-intolerant doesn't mean you have to miss out on the barbecue fun as food writer Monica Shaw demonstrates.

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