The Gazette Menu Week Features Crawfish Po Boy
This week The Gazette menu highlights a Crawfish Po Boy from Popeyes in the Weekend edition. The Saturday Cue section features Savory Spinach Grat in the featured recipe. Coralville’s Three Samurai Japanese Restaurant appears in Local Forkcast with details.
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Popeyes
Coralville
Nuts and Sweet Potatoes Recipe Brochures
The International Tree Nut Council offers a brochure Go Nuts Go Healthy with recipes using almonds Brazil nuts cashews hazelnuts macadamias pecans pine nuts pistachios and walnuts. North Carolina Sweet Potato Commission adds Hints for Hassle Free Entertaining with several new recipes and tips. requests for copies should be sent to Davis California and Selma North Carolina respectively.
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International Tree Nut Council
Anza Ave
Davis
Calif
North Carolina Sweet Potato Commission
P.O
Dept
HPK
Selma
N.C
McDonald’s Question: Food Company or Toy Promotion Machine
Investors debate McDonald’s role as a fast food brand versus a toy driven promoter. Critics say promotions with Hasbro Monopoly and Disney Dinosaurs did not lift sales as hoped, and Teenie Beanie Babies efforts were weaker than last year.
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McDonald’s
McDonald's
Wall Street
Big McDonald's
Hasbro
Walt Disney
Off the Bookshelf Apple Harvest celebrates apples
In An Apple Harvest Frank Browning and Sharon Silva celebrate apples for eating cooking and keeping. The book turns the fruit on its head weaving musings on peeling for pie cider and life on a farm with recipes from first course to dessert.
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Ten Speed Press
Frank Browning
Sharon Silva
Pocket Vineyard guides wine pairing on Palm OS devices
Pocket Vineyard is a Palm OS program priced at $19.95 that helps users select wines for dinner parties. It includes a glossary of wine terms and a database to match foods with wine and is sold through neohand.com.
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Pocket Vineyard
Neohand.com
Candy recipes from GimmeCandy.com lure Thanksgiving leftovers
Anne Rutter profiles Christie Owens and her Taft California based GimmeCandy.com a candy focused recipe site. The feature describes hundreds of recipes using popular candies from MMs to York Peppermint Patties and Mars Bars while noting site growth hits and an adults only Mars Bar vodka treat requiring a dishwasher for prep.
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M&m's
Taft
Calif
Owens
GimmeCandy.com
Dessert Hacks From A Pantry Pantry Party Treats
Quick no bake and bake dessert ideas using snacks like Snickers and Butterfinger. Recipes include Snickers crescents, crunchy fudge fondue with Nestle Crunch, Rolo bars, Butterfinger crumb cake, peppermint frosting, Irish cream cocktail, Mars topping, and peanut butter cup freeze. Includes quantities, steps, and baking times for each treat.
Readers share green sauces and soups from reader requests
Readers answer a call for recipes including cabbage soup and green sauce. Contributions from Bill Martin Norman Jellison Vickie Martin and others supply a cabbage soup base and a green enchilada sauce inspired by Chef Jose Leopoldo Romero. Also shared is baked butternut squash and a Parmesan version from iVillage with detailed steps and yields.
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Bill Martin
Cedar Rapids
The
Gazette
Grover
West Union
Norman Jellison
Louise Hergert
Middle
Iowa
Alice
Mike McKeown
Council Bluffs
Vickie Martin
Vickie
el Paso
Texas
Jose Leopoldo Romero
Joyce Ann Turpen
Dorothy Krivanek
iVillage
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Anne Rutter
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