Tag Archives: Fill Your Plate

50 Fabulous Ways to Use Fennel

This month, we are shining the focus on fennel, one of the most versatile vegetables that you probably don’t use very often.  Although the various parts of the fennel plant are used in cooking around the world, here at home, … Continue reading

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Crazy for Cupcakes

It seems like these days everyone is crazy for cupcakes!  Once relegated to classroom parties and afternoon treats, creative flavors of cupcakes are finding their into wedding cakes and onto the dessert tables at baby showers.  No longer just for … Continue reading

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What Flavor Ice Cream are You?

Everyone likes different things and this is especially true when it comes to ice cream flavors.  Some like to stay traditional and stick with vanilla, strawberry, and chocolate.  Others like to live on the wild side and are willing to … Continue reading

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USDA Releases New Maps Identifying Major Crop Producing Areas: Cotton

A total of 40 new maps have been prepared, showing major crop-producing areas in the United States, China, India, Pakistan, and South Africa.  Earlier versions of these maps appeared in the Major World Crop Areas and Climatic Profiles (MWCACP) handbook that contains … Continue reading

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Latin American Flavors Spicing Up Food

This article originally appeared in the January/February 2013 issue of Foodie News, brought to you by the Public Relations Department of the American Farm Bureau Federation. While the regular celebrity chef lineup was present at the recent South Beach Food & … Continue reading

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