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Last Chance Foods from WNYC

Last Chance Foods covers produce that’s about to go out of season, gives you a heads up on what’s still available at the farmers market and tells you how to keep it fresh through the winter.

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Last Chance Foods: The Truth About High Fructose Corn Syrup

Last Chance Foods: The Truth About High Fructose Corn Syrup

If you’ve ever flipped over packaged food and checked for high fructose corn syrup in the ingredient list, there’s somet... Read more

28 Feb 2014

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Ranked #2

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Last Chance Foods: A Pantry Stocked For Snow Days and Late Nights

Last Chance Foods: A Pantry Stocked For Snow Days and Late Nights

A snowy winter storm is a daunting way to start off a new year — particularly if your resolutions for 2014 include eatin... Read more

3 Jan 2014

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Last Chance Foods: One Rad Radish

Last Chance Foods: One Rad Radish

It’s now, around January and February, that daikon radishes begin to really sell, said Tamarack Hollow Farm’s farmer Ama... Read more

1 Feb 2013

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Ranked #4

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Last Chance Foods: Go Ahead, Make Ricotta at Home

Last Chance Foods: Go Ahead, Make Ricotta at Home

Making cheese at home may seem like an endeavor for hardcore homesteaders, but chef Peter Berley said that making ricott... Read more

15 Feb 2013

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Last Chance Foods: Make Hummus Like a Pro

Last Chance Foods: Make Hummus Like a Pro

As a snowstorm comes barreling down on the Northeast, many New Yorkers will be spending some quality time indoors this w... Read more

8 Feb 2013

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Ranked #6

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Hot Sauce: Feel-Good Flavor or Just a Punch in the Face?

Hot Sauce: Feel-Good Flavor or Just a Punch in the Face?

Americans now eat 150 percent more hot sauce today than they did in 2000. WNYC host Amy Eddings thinks that’s because ou... Read more

31 Jan 2014

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Ranked #7

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Last Chance Foods: Why You Shouldn’t Eat Raw Chocolate

Last Chance Foods: Why You Shouldn’t Eat Raw Chocolate

Today is Valentine’s Day, so we’re going to talk about chocolate. That’s the easy explanation. The more complicated vers... Read more

14 Feb 2014

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Last Chance Foods: Taking a Gander at Eating Goose

Last Chance Foods: Taking a Gander at Eating Goose

Chicken coops may be sprouting up on rooftops and backyards around the city, but don’t expect domesticated geese to be t... Read more

24 Jan 2014

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Last Chance Foods: Forget Ramps, Try Cardoons Instead

Last Chance Foods: Forget Ramps, Try Cardoons Instead

Chef John Fraser admits that cardoons look like “celery with armor.” Beneath that bristly exterior, though, there hides ... Read more

8 Mar 2013

4mins

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Last Chance Foods: Super Sweet Stevia

Last Chance Foods: Super Sweet Stevia

Put away those pink, blue, and yellow packets of artificial sweeteners. You can now get a sugar substitute that wasn’t b... Read more

6 Sep 2013

4mins

Ranked #11

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Last Chance Foods: A Family Tradition Built on Horseradish

Last Chance Foods: A Family Tradition Built on Horseradish

Making horseradish runs in Carolyn Sherman’s family. Her father, Lawrence, started tinkering with the recipe more than t... Read more

25 Jan 2013

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Last Chance Foods: Introducing Purple Tomatillos

Last Chance Foods: Introducing Purple Tomatillos

For those of us unaccustomed to cooking with tomatillos, they can be a bit of a mystery. The obvious facts are these: Th... Read more

27 Sep 2013

5mins

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Last Chance Foods: Stalking Panther Edamame

Last Chance Foods: Stalking Panther Edamame

Clear skies, full bellies, can’t lose — maybe that should be the Friday Night Lights–inspired motto for panther edamame,... Read more

30 Aug 2013

5mins

Ranked #14

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Last Chance Foods: On a Mission to Save Kubbeh

Last Chance Foods: On a Mission to Save Kubbeh

Cookbook author Claudia Roden made a grim prediction in her 1996 tome The Book of Jewish Food. She wrote that kubbeh, a ... Read more

1 Mar 2013

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Ranked #15

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Last Chance Foods: True Grits

Last Chance Foods: True Grits

Matt Lee and Ted Lee exhibit a Southern politeness that speaks to their background growing up in genteel Charleston, Sou... Read more

22 Feb 2013

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Last Chance Foods: From Chicken to Egg

Last Chance Foods: From Chicken to Egg

Eggs traditionally symbolize spring and rebirth. There’s a reason for that: As the days get longer, hens tend to produce... Read more

26 Apr 2013

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Last Chance Foods: Maple Syrup

Last Chance Foods: Maple Syrup

Harvesting time for maple syrup is drawing to an end, and you can be sure New York producers are out tapping their trees... Read more

11 Apr 2013

4mins

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Last Chance Foods: Graze on This

Last Chance Foods: Graze on This

There’s a warehouse space near the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn where pallets of wheatgrass are carefully grown in a temper... Read more

28 Mar 2013

5mins

Ranked #19

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Last Chance Foods: A New Life for Old Potatoes

Last Chance Foods: A New Life for Old Potatoes

They might not be the most glamorous vegetable rolling around in the vegetable drawer, but potatoes are the stuff of lif... Read more

22 Mar 2013

5mins

Ranked #20

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Last Chance Foods: Frisée From Florida

Last Chance Foods: Frisée From Florida

When Eberhard Müller and Paulette Satur first bought a farm on Long Island in 1997, the idea was for Satur Farms to be a... Read more

15 Mar 2013

5mins

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