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Today’s Spotlight is on Mousse.
A mousse is a soft prepared food that incorporates air bubbles to give it a light and airy texture. Depending on preparation techniques, it can range from light and fluffy to creamy and thick. Mousse is a soft, light, and airy food that can be sweet or savory. It's made by folding aerators into a base. Aerators can be:

Celebrating Corn Chips

Today’s Spotlight is on Corn Chips.
Corn chips are a snack food made from cornmeal fried in oil or baked, usually in the shape of a small noodle or scoop. Corn chips are thick, rigid, very crunchy, have the strong aroma and flavor of roasted corn, and are often heavily seasoned with salt.
Corn chips are a snack food made from cornmeal. They are usually shaped like small noodles or scoops. Corn chips are:

Celebrating French Toast

Today’s Spotlight is on French Toast.
French toast is a dish of sliced bread soaked in beaten eggs and often milk or cream, then pan fried. French toast is a breakfast and brunch dish made by soaking bread in a mixture of eggs, milk, and seasonings, then frying it until golden brown. It's often served with butter, preserves, or syrup.
French toast is also known as:

Celebrating Bavarian Cream Pie

Today’s Spotlight is on Bavarian Cream Pie.
Bavarian cream pie is perhaps the easiest of American desserts to prepare. A short crust pastry made with just flour, butter and sugar is pressed into a pie plate and usually baked at a medium temperature. Once cooled, a custard made with milk, sugar, yolks, eggs, and cream is poured into a pie shell and topped with whipped cream. Alternatively, the crust can be made with anything from wafers, chocolate cookies, even sugar cones, and cornflakes, while the standard vanilla custard, depending on the recipe, can be additionally flavored and decorated with, for example, coconut, chocolate, or bananas. Meringue can be used as topping instead of whipped cream in which case it must be baked. Coconut cream pie, as well as banana cream pie, are the most popular kinds, with chocolate cream pie coming in close second. Basically, there is no limit to how you can flavor a cream pie, all that is necessary is to add the desired flavor ingredient to the basic recipe.

Celebrating Cake

Today’s Spotlight is on Cake.
Cake is a flour confection made from flour, sugar, and other ingredients and is usually baked. In their oldest forms, cakes were modifications of bread, but cakes now cover a wide range of preparations.
A cake is a sweet, baked dessert that's often topped with frosting or decorations. Cakes are usually made with:

Celebrating Parfait

Today’s Spotlight is on Parfait.
Parfait is either of two types of dessert. In France, where the dish originated, parfait is made by boiling cream, egg, sugar and syrup to create a custard-like or meringue-like puree which is then frozen. A parfait is a layered dessert made of fruit, syrup, ice cream, and whipped cream. It's often served in a tall, narrow, short-stemmed glass.
A parfait can also be:

Celebrating Sardines

Today’s Spotlight is on Sardines.
Sardines are small, silvery, elongated fish that live in dense schools. They range in length from about 15 to 30 cm (6 to 12 inches). They have a single short dorsal fin, no lateral line, and no scales on the head.
Sardines are oily and soft in texture. They have a strong flavor and can be bought and prepared in various forms. They are a popular seafood choice around the world.

Celebrating Espresso

Today’s Spotlight is on Espresso.
Espresso is one of the most popular coffee-brewing methods, of Italian origin. The French also made a significant contribution to the invention of the first coffee makers, predecessors of today's espresso machines, and generally to the café culture.
Espresso is a type of coffee, a concentrated form of coffee that is served in shots. It's made by forcing pressurized hot water through finely ground coffee beans using an espresso machine. The main difference between espresso and coffee is the brewing method. Espresso is brewed using high pressure to force hot water through very finely ground coffee beans.

Celebrating Cranberry Relish

Today’s Spotlight is on Cranberry Relish.
Cranberry sauce or cranberry jam is a sauce or relish made out of cranberries, commonly served as a condiment or a side dish with Thanksgiving dinner in North America and Christmas dinner in the United Kingdom and Canada.
Cranberry sauce is a Thanksgiving staple. It's a crucial part of the Thanksgiving meal because its tart acidity cuts through the heavy turkey, gravy, stuffing, and mashed potatoes. Cranberries are not overly sweet. Their tartness pairs well with the more bland-tasting turkey. Tannins in the cranberry's skin bind with protein and fats, such as turkey, gravy, and buttery mashed potatoes.