In Italy, elaborate chocolate Easter eggs are considered the food gift of choice this time of year. blese/via Flickr hide caption
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A sign outside Lou Caracciolo's winery, Amalthea Cellars Courtesy Amalthea Cellars hide caption
The Trick To Selling Fancy Wine From New Jersey: Don't Say It's From New Jersey
Marshmallow eggs made with homemade flavored sugar are a colorful treat at Thomas Keller's Bouchon Bakery in Beverly Hills, Calif. To make them, pipe homemade marshmallow into hollow plastic eggs (see recipe, below). Doriane Raiman for NPR hide caption
Thursday
Chocolate Easter bunnies by Swiss company Lindt, left, and Austrain company Hauswirth, which agreed to stop making chocolate Easter bunnies that look like those made by Lindt & Spruengli in 2012. Heinz-Peter Bader/Reuters /Landov hide caption
Tuscany's sweet spinach pie is a dish that's often associated with Easter and spring. Courtesy of Pinella Orgiana hide caption
You call it salad. The bacteria call it home. iStockphoto.com hide caption
Nick Wiseman, partner at DGS Delicatessen, inspects the kitchen as an employee prepares pastrami sandwiches for lunch. Daniel M.N. Turner/NPR hide caption
Wednesday
An Arizona restaurant sold lion meat burgers in 2010 in an attempt to drum up business during the World Cup soccer tournament held in South Africa. Matt York/AP hide caption
Tuesday
Spices are common targets for food fraudsters. iStockphoto.com hide caption
A pushcart fruit vendor at the Fulton fish market in New York City in 1943 Gordon Parks/Library of Congress hide caption
Monday
Workers clear honey from dead beehives at a bee farm east of Merced, Calif. Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP hide caption