Popcorn

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It’s an inexpensive snack food! It’s low-fat, cholesterol-free, protein-rich, and high in fiber! It’s also used in wearable fashion and home décor! What is it?

 

Popcorn, of course…the official state snack of Illinois.

Vegetarian

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“Animals are my friends…and I don’t eat my friends.” — George Bernard Shaw

Vietnam

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Vietnamese food is a compendium of culinary contrasts: sweet and sour, mild and spicy, cold and hot — a true example, if you will, of yin and yang. If your idea of good eating is a little bit of everything (with a generous amount of fish sauce!), you should definitely give this cuisine a try.

Nuts

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“Buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jack…” — “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” (Norworth/Von Tilzer, 1908)

Potatoes

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Here at The World of Food, we’re enjoying National Potato Month, a great time to celebrate one of the world’s perfect foods.

Barbecue

By Julia Maish

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Invite the neighbors, heat up your charcoal briquettes, toss your burgers, brats, vegetables, and what-have-you on the grill, serve it all up with a bottle of grocery-store sauce and deli side dishes, and voilà! You have yourself a barbecue. Easy-peasy.

Iceland

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Heat. High humidity. Sunburn and sand between your toes. Deep-fried everything. Yes, those dog days of summer are upon us again.

 

So perhaps it would be a good time for a refreshing change of pace — a journey to someplace far away, invigorating, and entirely different.  Someplace like…

 

…Iceland.

Pizza

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Did you know that Americans collectively consume approximately 100 acres of pizza per day, which translates to 350 slices every second?

Pie

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“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.” — Carl Sagan

Peru

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Located in western South America and bordering five other countries and the Pacific Ocean, Peru is truly a land of extreme contrasts.