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A Year In Food

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Here’s one word for the food trends of 2011: bi-polar.   

In 2011, Domino’s introduced cheesy stuffed bread, while some districts removed sugary sodas from school cafeterias. Vegan was big, so was butter-drenched southern cooking. Farmer’s markets had a resurgence. So did beer, burgers and pasta. There was much hand-wringing over America’s obesity epidemic, and Congress passed an agriculture bill that declared tomato paste on pizza a vegetable. For foodies, the antidote to the nation’s bifurcated food culture is to make better food. For that we have the beautiful possibilities presented in a greatcookbook. J.M Hirsch is food editor for the associated press and author of the High Flavor, Low Labor Cookbook. He’s also a prolific blogger, and is with us to tick through some of the year’s most giftable cookbook, along with a few other food trends of 2011.

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Hirsch's Blog

Virginia Prescott is the Gracie Award-winning host of Word of Mouth, Civics 101, The 10-Minute Writers Workshop podcasts, and the Writers on A New England Stage series on New Hampshire Public Radio. Prior to joining NHPR, she was editor, producer, and director for NPR programs On Point and Here & Now, and directed interactive media for New York Public Radio.
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