A Spring Celebration of Salads, Curries, and the Humble Graham Cracker

April is a month for waking up: we spring forward into Daylight Saving Time, pay our taxes, start the gardening season, and tickle our taste buds to life with a celebration of salads, hot curries, and a Norwegian omelet fit for a lumberjack. All this and more in the April issue of Another bite.

Welcome to the April 2002 issue of Another Bite, the free online newsletter of cooking tips, recipes, and ruminations on food and cooking from the folks at www.digitalhearth.com. Easy home-style recipes, clear directions for cooking basics, handy tips and short-cuts, and a leavening of food lore and tradition fill each monthly issue. On the DigitalHearth Web site, simply click on "newsletter" to view the April issue.

Highlights of this issue include:

• Tempting recipes for spring salads and a primer on making your own salad dressings from Classic Vinaigrette to a Soy and Ginger Dressing perfect with fresh greens.
• Favorite Indian recipes, including Tandoori-Style Chicken and Curried Cauliflower.
• Recipes using graham-cracker crumbs - from muffins to decadent cookies - that Sylvester Graham could never have imagined when he invented the healthful cracker in 1829.
• A visit to the Norske Nook, a home-style restaurant in rural Wisconsin famous for its pies, caramel sticky buns, and Norwegian-style omelets wrapped in homemade lefse.
• Handy hints on what to do with those old wine corks rattling around in the kitchen drawer.
• Advice on planning your kitchen garden, and a foolproof way to tell if the soil is warm enough for planting.
• A review of Christopher Kimballs Dessert Bible; an explanation of why a rare steak is not really "bloody"; and more hints, tips, and recipes for cooks and homemakers everywhere.