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Old Time Fall Dishes

Cooking Simple

Carrie Gamble’s grandmother grew up on a 42-acre orchard farm in Bucks County, Pennsylvania complete with chickens, cows and pigs. There was a bounty of farm fresh foods served at every meal. Carrie has collected those recipes and memories in Grandmother's Cookbook.

Carrie shares her grandmother's old fashioned Tomato Soup recipe that will warm you on a cool fall evening. Plus a special Apple Pie recipe just perfect for this time of year! Both recipes are simple and delicious! Enjoy!

Emptier Calories

Green Be

by J. Michael Wheeler

If you’re a Foodie, the raison d'être of eating is, of course, the pleasure of it. There is, however, another reason to eat: nutrition. Really. We need to eat to live to eat another meal. We need energy to eat (and to do other things like food shopping and cooking, too). The unit that we use to measure this energy is the calorie. A calorie is the amount of energy required to raise one cubic centimeter of water by one degree Centigrade.

Well okay, but the thing to remember is that energy is energy and a calorie is a way to measure it. That’s what it means when your diet soda has only one calorie. It will give you only one calorie of energy. And an interesting question, from a green perspective, is how much energy did it take to bring that one calorie of energy to you?

Wine Spectator's Contest

Contest Wine

The Wine Spectator’s Second Annual Video Contest has just released its five finalists and they are asking us to vote for our favorites. The voting period is: Monday, September 8 through Sunday, September 14.

The Wine Spectator's editors have chosen five finalists from the videos created by their readers. Your votes will determine the winner. The 2nd and 3rd place finishers will be revealed on Monday, September 15th. The winner will be announced on Tuesday, September 16.

To view the five finalists, go to winespectator.com/Wine/Free/Video.

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9.08 Contests For Foodies

Foodies Contests for

Food Arts, the lush culinary trade magazine, reports on some of the latest contests for food artists:

Vinos de Jeriz Cocktail Competition The search for America's best Sherry cocktail. Submit a recipe, a photo, and a copy of your cocktail menu to [email protected]. The winner will received an all-expense paid trip to Jerez, Spain, and the recipe on the Web site(s). Info: [email protected] or enjoysherry.com . Deadline September , 2008.

Dole® Fresh Frozen Fruit Recipe Contest Competition for culinary students that can earn a grand prize of $2500 and his/her culinary instructor $1000. Four strudent first prizes of $500 and their instructors $100. To enter, students must submit an original recipe using a minimum of two cups total fruit from at least two varieties of Dole Fresh Frozen fruit in one or more of the following categories: breakfast/baking, salad/side dish, dessert/pastry, or entrée. Info: dolefoodservice.com/culinarycontest Deadline November 5, 2008.

Best Cup o' Joe

Trends Coffee

by J. Michael Wheeler

While many coffee aficionados feared that Starbucks would vanquish all the great little coffee houses around the country, I was never one of them. In fact, most cities and towns never had great coffee houses to begin with. Maybe with the exception of New York, San Francisco, and a couple of isolated towns or cities, great (or even good) coffee was hard to come by. Starbucks changed all of that.

Nick Pandolfi, in Food & Wine (9.08), writes "Food insiders are as excited to talk about coffee bars as they are restaurants: The quality has gotten that good. Here [are], the classic and new places around the country with the most fanatical devotees."