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Egg Harbor Café Kitchen Manager Perfects Recipe for Teamwork
Ever wonder who’s responsible for preparing all the…
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Watch Cubs in World Series with Local Foodies at Barrington TasteFest!
Watch the Chicago Cubs in Game 2 of…
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320. FIVE REASONS to attend the Great Barrington Area TasteFest
Calling all foodies! The menu looks amazing for…
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268. Farm to Table Dinner Celebrates Smart Farm’s Commitment to the Local Food Movement
What do you get when some of the…
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161. 15 Reasons to Attend the 15th Annual Barrington Country Garden & Antique Faire
As Barrington kicks off a summer of sesquicentennial celebrations,…
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251. Guests Rave About Smart Farm’s First Farm to Table Dinner
Mother nature delivered with gorgeous late-summer weather for…
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125. Hands of Hope’s 14th Annual Barrington Country Garden & Antique Faire
Spring has finally arrived in earnest: the flowers…
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225. Barrington Family Recipes Contest Kickoff
Welcome to our 2013 Barrington Family Recipes Contest! …
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125. Barrington EATS: Extraordinary Dishes with Garden Fresh Herbs Cooking Demonstration
Coming up this Friday and Saturday is one…
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88. Barrington EATS: Give Mom the Day Off in the Kitchen
Mother’s Day is this weekend. As a mother…
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63. Barrington EATS: Students Get Cooking for Future Chefs Challenge
There’s something cooking at the Barrington 220 school…
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36. Barrington EATS: Warm Up Your Winter with Sunshine-Fresh Produce at Heinen’s Fine Foods
We hear people around Barrington buzzing about the…
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20. Barrington EATS: The Forbidden Fruit for Tasty Tuesday
It’s Tasty Tuesday time again at District 220 schools, and the ingredient of the month for February is grapefruit. Tasty Tuesday is a new healthy eating initiative in our elementary schools where students are served a sample of a fruit or vegetable on the first Tuesday of each month. Then, the same food item will be offered intermittently on the school lunch menu for remainder of the month.
Since the district also recommends we try to serve our kids the food of the month in our own homes, we have a family-friendly recipe for you try, starring the ingredient of the month. I couldn’t be more excited to share a few tips about serving grapefruit, which is my favorite fruit and affectionately known as “The Forbidden Fruit” by those, like me, who love it.
Others may just remember the grapefruit diet fad and perhaps only think of grapefruit as a cleanser for the fruit’s low glycemic index, which helps the body’s metabolism burn fat when digesting. It’s also a great provider of Vitamin C, fiber and lycopene and can help lower cholesterol. These are all good reasons to incorporate grapefruit into your diet. But how about because it tastes great? And I find it truly reliable in texture and flavor in all seasons.
I agree with District 220’s Tasty Tuesday program that we should all try to get our families to eat more grapefruit. Grapefruit has a reputation for being bitter, which happens if you get a bite with too much of the abundant pith, the part that surrounds and separates the segments. Here is a way to cut the fruit that eliminates the majority of the pith, and allows you to easily eat or carve out just the juicy pulp……

15. Heinen’s Football Crowd Pleasers for Sunday’s Big Game
With The Big Game just days away, chefs…
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