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Look for these new items at stores where you shop for food or kitchen equipment.
By TIMES STAFF
Published April 25, 2007
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Chef Mario Batali visits New York Times food columnist Mark Bittman's new public television series, The Best Recipes in the World.
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Look for these new items at stores where you shop for food or kitchen equipment. Prunes dress up as candy Individually wrapped prunes, a strange-but-clever combination of nutrition, flavor and convenience, are available in the dried fruit section of your local grocery store. Sunsweet Ones are loaded with antioxidants, and four add up to about 100 calories. The suggested retail price is $2.99 for a 7-ounce container. Haagen-Dazs takes on international flair Haagen-Dazs' new line of ice cream - Haagen-Dazs Reserve Series - celebrates ingredients and flavor combinations from around the world. They include Hawaiian Lehua Honey and Sweet Cream, Pomegranate Chip, Amazon Valley Chocolate, Toasted Coconut Sesame Brittle, Pomegranate and Dark Chocolate Bar and Brazilian Acai Berry Sorbet. Each pint retails for $4.99. Cheese fired by chipotle Chipotle, smoked and dried jalapenos, are moving into the cheese case. Sliced chipotle cheddar from Sargento Foods adds a spicy kick to sandwiches. It's a good match for smoked turkey or deli roast beef, and much easier to use than cutting a slice off the blocks of chipotle cheddar that many supermarkets also sell. A 7.6-ounce package with 10 slices is $2.59 at Publix. The cheese is also available in shreds and snack sticks. More Bertolli dinners-for-two Bertolli is introducing another line of frozen Italian meals, also for two, that showcase regional cooking. Tasters tried two of the four Complete Pasta & Sauce dinners: Gnocchi in a Tomato Mozzarella Sauce from Sorrento and Orecchiette With Broccoli in a Garlic & Olive Oil Sauce from Puglia. These meals offer extras that make them worth considering: tender gnocchi (potato and flour dumplings) and a yummy garlic and olive oil sauce on the broccoli. Beware, though, that the sodium levels are high. Get them for $5.49 each at Publix. Cooking on TV World's best recipes Mark Bittman's new public television series, The Best Recipes in the World, is refreshingly watchable. Unlike so many overproduced programs, Bittman's new show - which traces great food through Italy, Spain, England and the United States - has an everyman quality that will appeal to foodies and more casual eaters alike. Especially for its sense of humor, as in the episode in which Bittman, a food columnist for the New York Times, wields a large knife and chases Mario Batali through the Tuscan hillside. Airs at 1 p.m. Saturdays on WEDU-Ch. 3.
[Last modified April 24, 2007, 21:26:02]
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