Quality Canned Seafood, All in One Place

In Spain and Portugal, sardines, mackerel, cod, tuna, mussels and other seafood packed in cans aren’t emergency pantry items. They are highly valued for dining, and restaurants serve them. Now there’s a website selling Portuguese brands that has aggregated many of the tinned products, or conservas, from various producers to make shopping easier. The seafood…

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A Tool for Pomegranate Fans

The pomegranate’s tart-sweet, jewel-like ruby seeds (arils) are a mighty challenge to extract. A new gadget from Tescoma, a company in San Martino, Italy, streamlines the usual method of holding the cut fruit in your hand over a bowl and smashing it to release the seeds. Yet even with this clever contraption, nine steps are…

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All About Corn at the New School

It’s getting to be harvest time, and Topic48, a food consulting company that works on educational projects, is holding a two-day conference all about corn. Mira Evnine and Johanna Kolodny, the organizers, are gathering panelists, including Marion Nestle of New York University; Glenn Roberts of Anson Mills; the food historian Darra Goldstein; and Alyshia Gálvez,…

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It’s a Pasta BLT!

Good morning. New York’s starting to empty out, all the therapists decamping for the Cape and islands, the novelists down the shore, accountants to the Dells, engineers to float camps in the Bob. Among many other things, it’s a great time to find parking. Me, I’m holding down the fort in the kitchen for a…

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