Health food Stores Often Sell ‘Nutritional Yeast,’ Sometimes Called Brewer’s Yeast. How is This Different From Regular Baker’s Yeast Grom the Grocery Store? Yeasts are microscopic fungi organisms that use alcoholic fermentation to produce energy. The type of yeast that most people are familiar with is baker’s yeast, which is based on different strains of Saccharomyces … Read more
Scrapple is a traditional Pennsylvania Dutch sausage loaf made from pork, cornmeal, & spices. Discover its German panhas origins, and what’s inside it.
A sweetbread is not a sugared pastry, which is what you’d be justified in thinking. Usually, when people tell you what sweetbreads are, they get it wrong, or only half right. Many people believe sweetbreads are testicles or calves’ brains. Others believe sweetbreads are just a nice-sounding name for internal organs or offal. In this … Read more
Trahana is sometimes referred to as sort of a Greek pasta, and that is essentially what it is: a small granular pasta. While we mostly think of pasta as an Italian specialty, Greece has dozens of traditional pastas as well. For instance, Greece has something called nioki. Nope, it is not a relative of Italian gnocchi. It … Read more