TasteFood: An Italian holiday cake confection that’s rich and easy
The name panforte refers to a festive Italian cake. This dense fruit-and-nut-jammed cake is well described by the words pan (bread) and forte (strong). Its origins can be traced back to the Middle Ages in Siena, Tuscany, when a bread flavored with honey and pepper was paid as a tax to the local monks. More…
Monday Morning Lights: How Los Gatos, Acalanes are getting ready for first state title games
Pittsburg, McClymonds, South San Francisco reflect on season-ending regional championship defeats. Retiring Mack coach: “I said I wouldn’t cry, but this hurts.” UNKNOWN TERRITORY FOR LOS GATOS AND ACALANES Over the weekend, Los Gatos and Acalanes made school history by winning their first Northern California regional championships and earning a spot in this week’s state…
Holiday recipe: Coconut Almond Slice-and-Bake Butter Cookies
These cookies come topped with coconut chips and are a beautiful addition to a holiday cookie plate. This holiday season, shake up your cookie tray with Nancy Silverton’s coconut-almond butter cookie recipe. She’s the James Beard Award-winning chef and baker behind Campanile, La Brea Bakery, Osteria Mozza, and Nancy’s Fancy gelato, as well as a…
Holiday recipe: The ultimate gingerbread cut-out cookies
Bring out the cookie cutters — these holiday cookie staples pack a gingery punch. “What is a holiday cookie plate without some decorated gingerbread cookies?” writes Dan Langan in his new cookbook, “Bake Your Heart Out: Foolproof Recipes to Level Up Your Home Baking” (Union Square & Co., $29.99). Langan is a baker, blogger, and…
Holiday Baking 2023: 3 new cookbooks to inspire the perfect cookie platter
We scoured new baking cookbooks for recipes to help you make your best holiday cookies yet. Are you looking for ways to improve your cookie-baking abilities this holiday season? We turned to three hot new baking cookbooks for inspiration, and the results — Scandinavian honey cookies with chocolate, gingerbread, and coconut almond slice-and-bake butter cookies…
Pac-12 football: Our picks for postseason award winners and the all-conference team
The race for Coach of the Year came down to UW’s Kalen DeBoer and Arizona’s Jedd Fisch On Tuesday, the Pac-12 will reveal its all-conference teams and postseason award winners for 2023. Before voting, the head coaches were allowed to wait for the outcome of the conference championship game. We don’t see why we should…
Tab lovers hope to convince Coca-Cola to revive the once popular diet soda
Coca-Cola discontinued its once-groundbreaking Tab diet soda three years ago, and a tenacious group of fans is actively lobbying the company to reintroduce it to retail shelves. On a sunny fall Friday last month, a dozen of them from across the country gathered at the World of Coca-Cola Museum and handed over a petition with…
This year, hedge funds and mutual funds have increased their equity market position sizes.
Long positions in Goldman Sachs’ Hedge Fund Very Important Position basket (GSTHHVIP), which includes the 50 most popular stocks within the top 10 holdings of fundamental hedge funds, have gained 34% year to date, according to a December 1 note from Goldman Sachs Chief US Equity Strategist David Kostin and his team. The boost is…
US Military Study on Postvaccination Myocarditis Released
The U.S. military was among the first to detect heart inflammation cases among the vaccinated. A small military study on postvaccination myocarditis was quietly released, with authors claiming no overt or subclinical heart inflammation was found. According to outside experts, the study did reveal some concerning signs, which the military researchers did not pursue further….
