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Hot Stuff: Food Section Round Up
We gobble the various food sections up each Wednesday. Here are our favorite food section nibbles from today's offerings.
SF Chronicle: Sweet date action. We highly recommend the bacon wrapped dates for easy and fun party eats.
Celiac sufferers and non-meat eaters find love, too. Nothing says "I Love You" like 3-bean chili. NY Times editors may be grinding their teeth after realizing they ran a similar story on romances with food challenges.
The Oakland Tribune: Cocina Poblana brings Mexican to Jack London Square, and includes a vault with 280 kinds of tequila. Easy chocolate dipped strawberries, even if you think Valentine's Day "is the dumbest day of the year." Tip: we find the Trader Joe's big bars melt and work well for this application. Put those Fujis to work in a gorge-gorge apple tarte tatin.
San Jose Mercury News: Wake up and smell the chocolate by visiting Peninsula and South Bay chocolatiers. Sip some port with those sweets for a fulfilling evening. Nothing says love like porto. What's in your food bins this week? (Grapes, for starters).
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