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“Every Day is a Pizza Day!”

Americans have had a love affair with pizza since around the turn of the century, when it was mostly a peasant food made in the home kitchens of Italian immigrants. Today, pizza has become a worldwide favorite, making it a slice of heaven for children and adults alike. Pizza like music, crosses all cultures. Domino’s recognized this and now features a new Spanish-language app for...
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You Scream, I Scream, We All Scream for Milk!

We should have known better. It was a Monday night and our good friend Nicole Presley from Presley’s Pantry invited us over her house in East LA for a little pachanga. Little did we know it was going to be a milk party! We arrived and saw little munchkins and their parents anxiously awaiting for the milk truck. Yes, milk truck! Then we remembered that...
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Melissa’s Produce Hosts Famed Designer Nathan Turner and Introduced New Book, “American Style: Classic Design and Effortless Entertaining”

  I’ve come to realize as an adult that I not only learned how to cook from my mom, but I also inherited her skills of how to keep a perfectly cluttered home. I’m not talking hoarder-style, but definitely small piles of paper on every imaginable surface, clean clothes patiently waiting to be folded, washed dishes sitting in the rack waiting to be put away....
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Milk and Bedtime Rituals — Sharing Stories from Friends and Family

“Go to bed!” That was pretty much my “bedtime ritual” while growing up. Or, at least that’s what I remember as a tween. I think when I was younger I would hear, “Time for mimis.”  I still say “mimis” today. As an adult, bedtime is a busy time with our two dogs. Pork Chop and Chubby Jackson must have one last bathroom break and a little...
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Gingersnap Cookies and Milk Make Bedtime a Sweet Time

Sending your kids to bed early with a glass of milk may help them to be more awake and alert the following morning, so we hear from the California Milk Processor Board. To heck with the kids, a restful night’s sleep is what we ALL need to tackle, and conquer the day.  So why not enjoy some homemade cookies with that milk? We would not...
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Toma Leche and Shape Up This Summer to LatinoFoodie’s “Paso Positivity” Video

Don’t you hate it when you hear a song that’s so corny and yet it plays over and over again in your head? That’s what happened to us recently with the ”Paso Positivo” campaign song. If you remember, LatinoFoodie was asked to be ambassadors for the milk campaign. Now, Art and I find ourselves singing the song in the car, humming the melody in the kitchen and...
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