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Chocolate Amaretti Cookies

Soft, chewy and chocolatey, these chocolate amaretti cookies are sure to become a fast favorite!

This rich chocolate variation of my popular amaretti morbidi cookies will delight your tastebuds. A few tablespoons of cocoa powder transforms these little almond cookies into rich, brownie-like bites of heaven.

The infamous amaretti strike again.

This time in the form of dark chocolate.

The result is soft and chewy and richly chocolate (surprisingly so for just a few tablespoons of cocoa powder), reminiscent of an almond-scented brownie.

I mean, amazing is what they are (dare I say this is my favorite variation yet? Of course, I said that about the last batch too… but then again, I’m totally a sucker for anything chocolate).

Much like the other variations, the chocolate amaretti use the same base recipe with the addition of one single flavoring ingredient, in this case, Dutch-processed cocoa powder. Everything else about the recipe is virtually identical.

It’s amazing how the addition of one ingredient can make for such a wildly different cookie!

(Be sure to click through/scroll down to see the recipe video!)

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from Love and Olive Oil http://bit.ly/2WbAfP3

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Future Fridays: Sophie Egan on the Conscious Eater

In this Future Fridays talk, Sophie Egan, contributor to The New York Times and author of “Devoured: How What We Eat Defines Who We Are,” looks at maker opportunity. Egan discusses two consumer trends she finds prevalent: a growing interest in functional foods, and an increase in personalized and build-your-own foods. In her What's the Big Idea? talk at SFA's Winter Fancy Food Show, Egan also introduces the concept of the “conscious eater,” someone who is interested in the larger impact of food on society. "I really think there's a huge market opportunity to co-opt this underlying desire for food to serve a function towards food as serving a greater function in the world," she says, "And with that, I think each of you can really think about ways to position your brands in a way that you not only meet the needs of the 'conscious eaters' but can also possibly breed more 'conscious eaters.'"

View Egan's full talk above as part of the SFA's Future Fridays series. 

from Food Trends http://bit.ly/2PtD2ka

22 Favorite Craft Ginger Beers (Updated for 2019!)

Dedicated to my fellow ginger beer lovers, here’s an updated list of my favorite craft ginger beers, including my all time favorites as well as a few more unique brews worth checking out.

My love of ginger beer runs deep, a sentiment I’ve expressed before. But considering it’s been almost 5 years since my original best ginger beers post, I figured it was high time for an update.

I scoured the internet, stalked all the local stores, sent countless emails and instagram messages to craft soda companies begging them to please please ship me some in Nashville. Needless to say, this post is the result of over 4 months worth of research (everything I do? I do it for you).

All in all I was able to sample over three dozen new-to-me ginger beers (and thanks to my friends Phillip, Billy and Mike for lending their tastebuds to this endeavor – I know I made you taste a ridiculous amount of ginger beer, but your excellent palates and honest opinions helped me out immensely). 

Let me just say… there are some really bad ginger beers out there. Plenty of mediocre ones, but some that were truly worthy of being dumped down the drain. I will not mention those ones here (I prefer to keep this space positive), instead, I’ll focus on the ones we loved that are definitely worth a sip. 

I’ve sorted my discoveries into a few different categories, including new favorites, old favorites (carryovers from the original post that I still love), as well as a few good beginner options and some uniquely-flavored wild cards that are also worth trying.

I will note that we decided, for the sake of our sanity, to limit our tastings to just non-alcoholic ginger beers, opting not to venture into the vast world of alcoholic options. We skipped over anything billed as a ginger ale as well (which usually are much sweeter and with very little spice). There are a number of ginger beer brands I found that I wasn’t able to get my hands on, mostly because they simply weren’t available to me in the US (boo hoo), so this is by no means the be-all-end-all list of best ginger beers. If/when I try a new one that belongs on this list, I will come back and add it here.

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from Love and Olive Oil http://bit.ly/2IU41UJ

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