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Vacation Souvenirs: Look For Local Cookware!

We often come back from vacation itching to recreate the meals we've just enjoyed in our own kitchens. Besides spices, salts, and unusual local ingredients, something else we can pick up to inspire ou...

How Should I Use This Pink Japanese Rock Salt?

Earlier this week I reported on my visit to a depachika (or basement gourmet food hall) in a Tokyo department store. While I was there, I impulsively picked up a small, edible souvenir: a lump of pink...

Edible Souvenirs: Rules for Bringing Food and Drink Back Into the United States

Got a bottle of Tuscan Extra-Virgin stashed in your suitcase? Or maybe a jar of French Provencal honey up your sleeve? Bringing home a souvenir from a great summer vacation goes back to the dawn of t...