Food And Cooking

No need to get fancy to get good turkey meat

No need to get fancy to get good turkey meat

Deep-frying. Wood-smoking. Sous vide. The mind-numbing number of suggestions for mining flavor from the typically unforgiving Thanksgiving bird have proliferated in recent years.

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We do the math, you do the cooking

We do the math, you do the cooking

Preparing Thanksgiving dinner is enough of a pressure cooker, never mind having to do on-the-fly math to get it right. Here are all the numbers you need to have a safe, worry-free and delicious Turkey Day dinner.

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Travel Channel's 'Food' man coming to Iowa

Travel Channel's 'Food' man coming to Iowa

Adam Richman has a love affair with food. The people who turn food into a class system? Not as much.

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Extension service is talking turkey

The University of Illinois Extension Web site, Turkey for the Holidays, is loaded with information about cooking techniques, selection, nutrition, food-safety issues, how to use leftovers and tasty side dishes to serve.

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Cookbook proceeds benefit Bookmobile

The Friends of the Eldridge Library have collected some of Scott County's best recipes and compiled them into a new cookbook titled "Scott County Cooks."

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Taste of Chamber is slated for Thursday

Taste of Chamber is slated for Thursday

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Taste of the Market will be Saturday

The Freight House Farmers Market will host Taste of the Market from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 21, at 421 W. River Drive, Davenport.

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Johnny’s hosts culinary class

Johnny’s Italian Steakhouse in Moline will host a culinary class at 6:30 p.m. today,  Nov. 11.

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EICCD provides cooking classes

The Eastern Iowa Community College District is offering a variety of cooking classes during November.

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Versatile sausage wrap has it all for $2

Editor's note: The SpendThrift column offers tips and recipes for cooking on a budget. Most meals will serve four with leftovers for under $10.

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Pie pops are tasty, easy to make

Pie pops are tasty, easy to make

How much cute can you handle in a pie?

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Necco wafers go all-natural

Necco wafers go all-natural

BOSTON (AP) - All-natural may be all the rage in the food world, but will candy lovers have a sweet tooth for beet juice and purple cabbage?

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Cumin and rosemary make deeply flavored lamb chops

These simple, but well-seasoned, lamb chops are a weeknight kitchen dream. They are packed with flavor, thanks to a quick toasting of cumin seeds and peppercorns used for the rub.

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Eastern Iowa Community College District offers cooking classes

The Eastern Iowa Community College District is offering a variety of cooking classes during November.

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Top chefs land on Epicurious.com

Hundreds of recipes from the world's top chefs and cookbook authors soon will be available on the food site Epicurious.com.

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Folgers contest brings you home

Entries are being accepted for the Folgers Home for the Holidays Contest.

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Bickelhaupt hosts a Harvest of Soups

Bickelhaupt Arboretum in Clinton, Iowa, will host a Sampling Harvest of Soups from 9 to 10:30 a.m. Nov. 14.

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Seasonal beer is reintroduced

With the holiday season quickly approaching, Leinenkugel's Fireside Nut Brown returns, providing craft beer enthusiasts with a handcrafted seasonal brew made especially for this time of year.

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Buffalo flavor stampedes to fast-food chains, groceries

Buffalo flavor stampedes to fast-food chains, groceries

Buffalo flavor is hotter than hot.

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Fresh-squeezed veggie juice finally comes of age

Fresh-squeezed veggie juice finally comes of age

NEW YORK (AP) - At midmorning, the line at Liquiteria is almost out the door.

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