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Get Fit, Get Healthy, Eat USA Pears!

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This TV commercial from India may be short and sweet, but it’s a great introduction to the fact that USA Pears pack a nutritional punch!  You can find out more by perusing the Pear Nutrition Facts page at usapears.org.  And if you haven’t already, check out Amy’s blog here at The Pear Dish!  As a Registered Dietician, she has great tips for incorporating a healthy diet into your everyday lifestyle – which includes, of course, pears! Facebook Twitter Google+ Pinterest LinkedIn

Dinner Party, Anyone?

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Entertaining this weekend?  Courtesy of Pear Panache Chef Stephen Ward of O’Connell Street Bistro in Auckland, New Zealand, you can serve up a gourmet meal with an international flair. Chef Ward’s elegant recipe is sure to impress your guests! You can check out other mouth-watering recipes from our honored culinary professionals at PearPanache.com.  Click here to see our internationally-featured chefs and their recipes from around the world! Seared Whangamata Scallops, Pear & Vanilla Puree, Snow Pea Tendrils and Chorizo Oil Serves 4 32 fresh Whangamata or sea scallops, cleaned Pear and Vanilla Puree 2 Anjou pears, peeled, cored and diced into pieces of equal size 100 ml (3.5 ounces) dry white wine 1 vanilla bean, split and scraped 1 bay leaf Pinch salt Chorizo oil 1 teaspoon smoked paprika 50 g (1 3/4 ounces) chorizo sausage 150 ml (5 ounces) canola or Continue reading →

Liquid Pear-fection

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The winners have been announced for this year’s USA Pear drink recipe contest in Hong Kong, and the results are refreshing!  The amateur mixologists are challenged to create an original, non-alcoholic drink recipe featuring USA Pears, for a chance to win gift cards to their supermarket of choice. For more USA Pear drink recipes, have a look at the winners from last year’s contest in Hong Kong, as well as the beverage recipe page on usapears.org.  You can also check out our pear-fect pear cocktails. Here’s the recipe for this year’s winner for “Most Delicious Anjou Pear Drink.” Winning drink:  “Fanaticism Anjou” Ingredients ½ of one Green or Red Anjou pear 2 slices ginger 100ml wheat grass juice Ice Cold water Directions  1) Peel, core, and slice the Anjou pears and ginger into small pieces 2) Mix ginger and water in a blender Continue reading →

A Shopping Tradition

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This photo from one of our traditional market promotions in Mexico has me longing for sunshine and farmers markets!  Unfortunately, we’ll have to wait a few more months for both to start popping up here in Portland.  In Mexico, as well as other parts of Latin America, traditional markets are a popular destination for shoppers – and they sell more fresh fruits and vegetables than the supermarkets each year!  Indoor or outdoors, you’ll find a wide selection and affordable prices. Facebook Twitter Google+ Pinterest LinkedIn

Celebrating CNY with Flying Colors!

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In honor of Chinese New Year, I thought we’d visit one of our Asian markets this week.  We recently held a coloring contest in Taiwan.  Sounds simple enough, right?  I know I participated in many a contest at my local grocery store growing up, for every holiday – even taking home 3rd place and $10 prize one year for my bunny and Easter egg masterpiece.  But Taiwan’s dense population (meaning, there’s a lot of people living in a relatively small amount of land) turned into 10,000 entries! Art professors and local artists judged the contest and announced 106 winners.  At first glance, you might not realize that each entry started with the same coloring sheet—so you can see that we received some very customized and creative entries! Don’t forget to pick up some Red Anjou pears for the year of the Continue reading →

Say Cheeeeeese!!!

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As promised, Russia is back to work after the extended New Year holidays, and the results of the USA Pear photo contest are in!  If you remember our holiday photo contest in Colombia last year, it’s always interesting to see what people come up with and how they get creative. Here is my personal favorite, which just so happens to also be the grand prize winner!  Prizes included a netbook computer, iPods, and free pears. Here are a few other memorable entries, and you can view the top 20 finalists here. Facebook Twitter Google+ Pinterest LinkedIn

Savory Lentil Stew with Red Wine Anjou Pear

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Well, I was planning to share the winners of our “Pear Cheeeeeese!!!” photo contest in Russia today, but unfortunately Russia is still on its extended holiday for the New Year, so I wasn’t able to get the final photos. So those will be something to look forward to for next time! Instead, here is a recipe from Germany for Savory Lentil Stew with Red Wine Anjou Pear.  As you can tell from the beautiful photo, it is a delicious meal that will warm you up in this winter weather! Savory Lentil Stew with Red Wine Anjou Pear Ingredients 1 onion 2 tablespoons oil 50 ml (about 1/4 cup) Noilly Prat (Vermouth) 400 g (14 oz) lentils 1 l (4 1/4 cups) vegetable stock (instant) 250 ml (1 cup) red wine 50 ml (1/4 cup) red wine vinegar 6 tablespoons maple syrup 4 Continue reading →

I Want a Pear!

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More details to come, but here’s a preview of another exciting promotion we have coming up in Mexico! The Wannabes Starring Savvy is a TV show that airs in Latin America about six students at an arts academy boarding school with dreams of becoming pop stars, even though their school only teaches the classics.  Luckily they find a local café where they can rock out, with a different disguise every week to hide from their strict principal. USA Pears are such a sweet and juicy snack, it’s no wonder they ins-PEAR-ed this song! Facebook Twitter Google+ Pinterest LinkedIn

¡Participar en la Aventura!

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Following last Spring’s successful Marmaduke promotion, USA Pears is proud to partner again with Fox Pictures in Mexico for the premiere of their Gulliver’s Travels movie, starring Jack Black – an adventure of huge flavor!  In addition to billboards across the cities, kids can visit grocery stores in Mexico City, Monterrey, and Guadalajara to sample delicious USA Pear varieties and have their picture taken with character cutouts and receive a special frame as a gift. Gulliver’s Travels opens here in the U.S. on December 25 as a new twist on the classic story.  While on assignment to complete an article about the Bermuda Triangle, Gulliver is transported to Lilliput, where he is significantly larger than the island’s tiny citizens. Gulliver’s Travels Teaser Facebook Twitter Google+ Pinterest LinkedIn

U.S. Fresh Fruit Carnival

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Following the “Spirits of Healthy Living” promotion in Indonesia, this season USA Pears are proud participants of the U.S. Fresh Fruit Carnival in Taiwan!  The promotion teaches Taiwanese shoppers about high quality, delicious, and nutritious fruits from the U.S. To kick-off the promotions that will take place in the cities of Taipei, Taichung, and Central Taiwan, a press conference was held with officers of the USDA’s Foreign Agriculture Service office in Taiwan.  The celebration included giveaways, kids’ activities, and sampling of many different varieties of U.S. fruits, which, in many cases, are considered exotic in this part of the world. The promotion will last through the end of December (which is National Pear Month here in the U.S., if you hadn’t already heard!), allowing shoppers to participate in nutrition workshops, a lucky draw contest through the official U.S. Fresh Fruit Continue reading →