Tidbits

Soy time

It’s Soyfoods Month, and what better way to celebrate than with a portable bottle of Silk Coffee Soylatte or Spice Soylatte, made by White Wave, the leading soy milk producer? The company has introduced several new soy-based products, including flavored creamer for coffee, soy yogurt six-packs, and the portable flavored drinks, so you can spread soy wherever you go.

Eat your words

Sarah E. Parvis’ new book, “The Quotable Feast,” is delicious reading. Packed with quotes on eating, drinking, cooking and entertaining, the small book makes a great hostess gift (because, really, who needs another bottle of wine? OK, just kidding.) It includes morsels of inspiration from foodies and nonfoodies alike, including Emeril Lagasse: “We’re not building a rocket ship here, we’re cooking – plain and simple;”

Queen Latifah: “Speaking for myself, I can definitely throw it down in the kitchen and I’m no chef;” and M.F.K. Fisher: “With good friends … and good food on the board, and good wine in the pitcher, we may well ask: When shall we live if not now?” Let the dinner party begin.

O broth, where art thou?

Whether you simmer it in the stockpot or use it to jazz up your pot roast, chicken broth is indispensable in the kitchen. Swanson wants to know how you use it in your “culinary creations.” To enter the Culinary Creations Recipe Contest, submit a recipe that includes at least 1 cup of Swanson Broth and in which roasting or simmering is the primary cooking method. For rules and an entry form, visit www.swansonbroth.com or call (212) 679-6600. Deadline is April 30.