Savvy Saving Bytes

  Doesn’t sound like very tasty eating, right? Well, according to Bruce Bradley, a former food executive, these questionable ingredients have been given more pleasant-sounding names and added to processed foods labeled “all natural”. So all those “natural” foods you’ve been eating lately under the assumption they’re purer and healthier can easily contain any of [...]

The first snow of the season is falling today so it’s time to break out my favorite soup recipe.  I found this basic recipe a while back in Good Housekeeping as part of a seven day all-you-can-eat soup diet. Since then I’ve jazzed it up with the addition of herbs and garlic, experimented with substituting [...]

This week two firecrackers were lobbed into my personal food world. The first one came from — say it ain’t so – Zabar’s, a high end Manhattan deli that’s been satisfying my yen for smoked salmon and herring with onions and cream whenever I’ve felt particularly flush. It turned out the lobster salad Zabar’s has [...]

If you started your day with Aunt Jemima’s blueberry pancakes, chowed down on a McDonald’s fish patty for lunch, snacked on a Weight Watcher’s Ice Cream Sandwich, polished off a Kraft’s Macaroni & Cheese for dinner and sipped a beddie-bye cup of Nestle’s hot chocolate, chances are you ate a decent helping of wood pulp. [...]

When we were driving through France our favorite summer lunch wherever we stopped was Salade Niçoise. Composed and artfully arranged a little differently in each restaurant, the salad’s snappy flavors and bright colors always hit a high note on those warm, traveling days. Julia Child called this her favorite main course salad. It’s mine too [...]

In China that’s what authorities told their people when photos surfaced showing Chinese pork glowing a spooky, iridescent blue after kitchen lights were switched off. No problem said the authorities. Just a little contamination by phosphorescent bacteria. Just make sure the pork is well cooked and it’s perfectly safe to eat. Think we’re safe and [...]