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The next Chicago Food Swap will take place on May 12 at The Scrumptious Pantry in Logan Square. Registration is now open. As always, to find out more about the Chicago Food Swap, check out our website or join the conversation on our Facebook page.

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Gingerbread Valentine’s Day Hearts

By the way, "JAR" are my son's initials. I don't love jars that much.

Gingerbread is a very traditional sweet. Long before the Conquistadors stumbled across chocolate in the New World, Europeans were marking special occasions with sweet-and-spicy gingerbread. In fact, even Shakespeare mentions gingerbread in his play Love’s Labor’s Lost: “Had I but [...]