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Every fall, I celebrate the Moon Festival with mooncakes. This year, I’m ordering them online.

People may be all about pumpkin spice lattes for fall, but for me, it’s not complete without mooncakes. Chinese people around the world eat them in celebration of the Moon Festiva...

DATE: Sep 23, 2020 | CATEGORY: Food

How to build better tacos at home, from the tortillas to the toppings

I have read a lot of fine literature in my day, full of beautiful turns of phrases and imagery. One of my favorites, though, is one you, too, may be familiar with if you’re a parent: “Pantlo...

DATE: Sep 21, 2020 | CATEGORY: Food

Tofu sales skyrocket during the pandemic, as consumers search for affordable meat alternatives

American grocery store shoppers became accustomed to limits on certain household staples during the first half of 2020. The quest for toilet paper, ground beef and hand sanitizer sparked pan...

DATE: Sep 21, 2020 | CATEGORY: Food

Colorado workers protest COVID-19 fine issued to meat plant

DENVER – A union representing workers at a Colorado meatpacking plant where six workers died of COVID-19 and hundreds more were infected staged a protest Wednesday, claiming that federal off...

DATE: Sep 16, 2020 | CATEGORY: Business

Start Rosh Hashanah on a sweet note with tishpishti, an orange-scented semolina cake

When it comes to Rosh Hashanah desserts, apple cake or honey cake might sound most familiar to Ashkenazi (Eastern and Central European) Jews celebrating the Jewish New Year. But the Jewish d...

DATE: Sep 16, 2020 | CATEGORY: Food

Local First Harvest Dinners reborn as new Eat Local Month

Weekly meals will benefit local food industry and nonprofits

DATE: Sep 15, 2020 | CATEGORY: Food

Free, reduced meals extended at all schools

Students eligible through December

DATE: Sep 9, 2020 | CATEGORY: Local News

A platter of crisp, Cajun-spiced fried green tomatoes is a fitting coda to summer

Many times I’ve tried to replicate the taste or flavor of a specific dish I’ve had. Sometimes, though, the memory is so distant that it turns out all I’m trying to capture is a feeling – and...

DATE: Sep 9, 2020 | CATEGORY: Food

New Mexico to grocery stores: Stop taxing food on deliveries

SANTA FE – New Mexico state taxation authorities on Wednesday urged grocery stores to stop unnecessarily collecting sales taxes on food that is delivered during the coronavirus pandemic. ...

DATE: Sep 6, 2020 | CATEGORY: Food

Ignacio heats up for annual chile fest

Event adapted for coronavirus concerns

DATE: Sep 4, 2020 | CATEGORY: Local News

The best summer tomato salads use just a few ingredients to generate big flavors

Here’s how to make a tomato salad: Cut tomatoes, salt them, then drizzle with fruity olive oil. You need only salt and fat to turn a perfect tomato into a perfect tomato salad, be...

DATE: Sep 2, 2020 | CATEGORY: Food

How to choose, prep and use all those summer cucumbers

Each family has its own lore, often-repeated stories and catchphrases. One that I’ll always remember, although told to me secondhand, is from my oldest niece, who while at her great-grandpar...

DATE: Aug 31, 2020 | CATEGORY: Food