English Muffins, Kenyan Food, Maple Water: 10 Hot Topics On Food Republic

How do you shop for wine like you know what you're doing? How does your milk make it from cow to home? What is maple water, and is it destined to be the next hydration sensation? What is Kenyan food? We've got all the answers for you this week at Food Republic. When we weren't busy tackling these burning questions, we covered the wondrous English muffin, made brown rice cheese crackers, counted the layers in "everything seasoning" from Dubai and put together a quiz designed to determine how much of an ordering-in expert you really are. All that and more on this week's Hot Topics on Food Republic.

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