Cool weather brings on the craving for cozy comfort foods like steaming bowls of soups, stews, chiles, and chowders. Creamy tomato soup is the perfect seasonal soup to transition from the bright tomato flavors of late summer into the crisp evenings of October. The secret to creamy tomato soup isn’t in the preparations, but in the ingredients.

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2016 has been lucky enough to witness the creation of Barolo Week!

Barolo week is a series of events in 30 countries, celebrating the iconic wines of the Piedmont region of Italy and introduce a new crowd to this scrumptious vino.

Now is the time to take your Barolo Week celebration to the next level, with a chance to win a once-in-a-lifetime trip to the historic Fontanafredda winery in Piedmont, one of Italy’s top wine regions.

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Most kids enjoy cheese — the vast number of string cheeses, cheese crackers, and mac and cheese marketed towards kids is evidence of this fact. Building a kid-friendly cheese plate is a lot less about choosing the right cheese and all about how to serve the cheese and take advantage of the opportunity to get the kids to eat a few fruits or vegetables too. Here are three simple tips for building a kid-friendly cheese plate.

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