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Frosted cranberries are edible jewels

’Tis the season for sparkles! These cranberries are so festive decked out in their sugar-coated crunchy goodness. They’re like little edible jewels. They’re the perfect sparkling garnish to a just about any holiday dish. Try them skewered on top of a glass of champagne or place them on top of...
Top Tips From the Wine Cellar: 2020 brings bubbly celebrations, proposed tariffs

The upcoming New Year celebrations once again bring festive spirits and fun opportunities to share and enjoy delicious wines with friends. But this year also brings a more alarming moment for wine drinkers. Time is of the essence to oppose the possible January 2020 imposition of devastating 100% import tariffs...
TribLIVE Taste Test: Impossible Whopper and Beyond BurgerVideo

Many a grillmaster bristles at the mere notion of putting a plant-based patty over their cherished charcoal. But with the rise of not just vegetarian burgers but now meat substitutes, the TribLIVE Taste Test team had to go and find out whether the new wave of plant-based meat analogs could...
Sheetz brewing up free coffee for Christmas, New Year’sVideo

Whether bleary-eyed from traveling, over indulging or staying up late, coffee might be in order on Christmas Day and New Year’s Eve/Day. Sheetz is again offering customers a free cup of fresh brew over the holidays. Customers can claim the coffee on the house from 12 a.m. Dec. 25 until...
Got an air fryer for the holidays? Here’s what to make first

If you got an air fryer this holiday season, you’re in for a treat. These $60 to $250 machines have been the next best way to get dinner on the table (after the Instant Pot, of course) for two years now, and its fans are more like devotees, spreading the...
Pull up a chair and leave holiday dinners to the professionals

For some holiday celebrants, the greatest gift is a night off from kitchen duty. Several area restaurants will be open Christmas Eve, including Bahama Breeze Island Grille, with a location in Robinson Township, and Braddock’s Rebellion, also open Christmas Day, 107 Sixthth St., Pittsburgh. If you can’t escape to the...
Want to lose weight? Learn how to cook from Penn State classes in Plum and Greensburg

Penn State Extension is offering a new cooking class for weight management when healthy eating and losing weight is on many people’s minds after the holiday calorie splurge. “Let’s Cook for Weight Management,” a new Penn State Extension class will be offered: Tuesday, Jan. 14, 6 p.m. at the Penn...
What’s Brewing? Beers for holiday cheers

There’s a chill in the air and the holiday season is in full swing. Pumpkin and Oktoberfest beers have been cleared off the shelves and out of the taps to make way for the seasonal varieties and Christmas ales we enjoy each year. Holiday brews, which are sometimes referred to...
2nd Alta Via to open in McCandless; new Big Burrito eatery coming to Lawrenceville

Big Burrito Restaurant Group continues to expand. The company announced Tuesday it planned to opened a second Alta Via restaurant in McCandless and had another eatery in the works for Lawrenceville. The first Alta Via, an Italian restaurant, opened in April in O’Hara. The second location will be at 5300...
Tarentum’s Cycle Diner to serve food again in January

The Cycle Diner in Tarentum soon will be up and running again. It will be renamed Clark’s Cycle Diner and open sometime in early January, according to John Clark, owner of Clark’s Diner in Lower Burrell, who will lease the space and manage the Tarentum restaurant. “I want to keep...
Rick Sebak documents his ‘Seven Weeks in Magee’ in latest ‘Nebby’ showVideo

After a fall in August 2018 requiring surgery, WQED producer Rick Sebak began a long recovery in UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital’s transitional care unit. His friends and fans soon began showering him with gifts, surprises and plenty of food. Naturally, he has turned the experience into a new program for his...
‘Pioneer Woman’ sticks to her groove with new cookbook

Ree Drummond — known for her Food Network cooking show, “The Pioneer Woman” — won’t follow diet trends to sell cookbooks. “I have found that I have to be authentic to me, otherwise it won’t work. My interest will fizzle. I stay most passionate when it’s something that’s really going...
Flavors of the season dominate holiday cocktails

When preparing holiday cocktails for friends and family, make the bar cart extra special by offering recipes such as Snowflake Martini, Blitzen’s Bubbles and Vanilla Pear Sangria. Fine Wine and Good Spirits is dreaming up concoctions with eye and flavor appeal, just right for chasing away those cold winter temps....
The 1970s inspire chef Kevin Sousa’s new venue in Allentown neighborhood

Chef Kevin Sousa has always been open to new ideas. After all, he opened a fine dining restaurant in Braddock, a place where a lot people thought it couldn’t be done. But he didn’t have anything particular in mind for his next venture. That is until he and his Superior...
Brackenridge’s Vibo’s Bakery hopes to make some dough at pop-up market

Dino “Vibo” Lopreiato will wake at 4 a.m. Saturday and start baking bread. His 86-year-old father, Giuseppe, will have been in the kitchen for an hour or longer already, kneading dough and preheating the ovens. They will be prepping for the day ahead. The elder Lopreiato will bake items to...
New Western Pennsylvania Food Guide ready for ordering

The 2020 Western PA Local Food Guide, a directory of farmers markets, restaurants, wineries, retail stores and other businesses that produce or support local food in the region, will be available before the new year. Orders can be placed for free delivery by visiting constantcontact.com. It also can be downloaded...

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