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Sabrosas recetas para perfeccionar su menú durante las fiestas
En las fiestas de este fin de año, prepare un menú sensacional desde el principio hasta el último bocado con recetas que hacen agua la boca y hacen que sus invitados quieran regresar por más.
Last Updated on July 16, 2024 by Daily News Staff
(Family Features) En las fiestas de este fin de año, prepare un menú sensacional desde el principio hasta el último bocado con recetas que hacen agua la boca y hacen que sus invitados quieran regresar por más. Todo comienza con la carne de res, un ingrediente versátil y amado que se puede usar en entremeses, guarniciones y platos principales por igual.
Considere estos favoritos de Beef Loving Texans para las fiestas, incluyendo un plato principal imprescindible como el Solomillo Wellington. Perfecto para una reunión familiar, este plato tradicional combina un suave corte chateaubriand con un glaseado casero de deliciosos champiñones, vino tinto y mostaza de Dijon, envuelto en una dorada masa de hojaldre.
Si está sirviendo a un grupo, el Solomillo asado con corteza de hierbas, ajo y pimienta es ideal para compartir y proporciona una llamativa pieza central en la mesa del comedor.
Sin embargo, antes de servir el plato principal, hay un aspecto importante de las fiestas de temporada que llama a todos a la cocina: los sabrosos entremeses. Puede invitar a sus invitados a compartir una opción como los Mini pinchos navideños de albóndigas de res con salsa de barbacoa de arándanos, un favorito de las fiestas, muy fácil de preparar, que puede calmar los antojos de una multitud hambrienta.
Encuentre más platos navideños inspirados en carne de res en BeefLovingTexans.com.
Solomillo Wellington
Receta cortesía de Beef Loving Texans
Tiempo total: 1 hora, 30 minutos
Porciones: 4
- 1 cucharadita de aceite de oliva, dividida
- 1/2 cucharadita de sal
- 1/2 cucharadita de pimienta, dividida
- 1 pieza de solomillo chateaubriand
- 8 onzas de champiñones
- 1 chalote grande
- 2 cucharadas de vino tinto seco
- 2 cucharadas de mostaza Dijon
- 1/2 cucharadita de hojas secas de tomillo
- harina
- 1 masa de hojaldre
- En un sartén antiadherente grande, caliente 1/2 cucharadita de aceite a fuego medio-alto. Combine la sal y 1/4 de cucharadita de pimienta. Presione uniformemente sobre todas las superficies del solomillo. Coloque la carne en el sartén; dore uniformemente. Retire del fuego.
- Precaliente el horno a 425 F.
- En un procesador de alimentos, triture los champiñones y la chalota unas 10 veces hasta que estén finamente picados. No sobre procese.
- Coloque el mismo sartén que usó para asar a fuego medio-alto y caliente el aceite restante. Agregue los champiñones y la chalota; cocine de 4 a 6 minutos hasta que estén tiernos y todo el líquido se evapore, revolviendo con frecuencia. Agregue el vino; cocine 2-3 minutos hasta que todo el líquido se evapore. Agregue la mostaza, el tomillo y la pimienta restante. Cocine de 2 a 3 minutos. Retire del sartén y coloque en un tazón mediano; deje enfriar.
- Cubra una bandeja para hornear con borde con papel aluminio y colóquela en el horno. En una tabla de cortar ligeramente enharinada, despliegue la masa de hojaldre. Estire la masa en un rectángulo de 12 x 9 pulgadas; coloque la masa con el borde más corto hacia usted. Extienda la mezcla de champiñones sobre la masa de hojaldre, dejando un borde de 1/2 pulgada alrededor de los bordes. Coloque el solomillo en el centro de los champiñones. Doble la masa de hojaldre cuidadosamente alrededor del solomillo, estirando la masa si es necesario. Corte el exceso de masa de hojaldre, y presione para sellar los bordes superpuestos, haciendo un rollo.
- Retire la bandeja para hornear del horno y espolvoree ligeramente con harina. Coloque el rollo de solomillo con el doblez hacia abajo en la bandeja para hornear. Corte cuatro orificios de ventilación (2 pulgadas) en la parte superior de la masa.
- Hornee de 35 a 50 minutos, o hasta que la masa esté dorada y el termómetro de lectura instantánea insertado en el centro del rollo registre 135 F para término medio crudo o 150 F para término medio. Transfiera el rollo a la tabla para cortar. Deje reposar por 10 minutos. La temperatura aumentará alrededor de 10 F para llegar a 145 F para término medio crudo o 160 F para término medio.
- Corte en rodajas y sirva.
Solomillo asado con corteza de hierbas, ajo y pimienta
Receta cortesía de Beef Loving Texans
Tiempo Total: 45 minutos
Porciones: 8
- 1carne asada de solomillo de corte central (alrededor de 3 libras)
- 1cucharada de aceite de oliva
Condimento:
- 2 cucharaditas de sal kosher
- 2 cucharadas de perejil fresco, picado
- 2 cucharadas de tomillo fresco, picado
- 5 dientes de ajo picados
- 2 cucharaditas de pimienta en grano mixta molida grueso (negra, blanca, verde y rosada)
- Precaliente el horno a 350 F.
- Frote la carne con aceite de oliva.
- Para hacer el condimento: En un tazón pequeño, combine la sal, el perejil, el tomillo, el ajo y la pimienta en grano; presione uniformemente en la carne.
- Coloque la carne en una bandeja para asar o en una fuente para hornear con una rejilla en el fondo. Hornee 40-60 minutos. Retire el asado cuando el termómetro para carne registre 135 F para término medio crudo o 150 F para término medio.
- Transfiera el asado a la tabla para cortar; cúbralo holgadamente con papel de aluminio. Deje reposar 10-15 minutos. La temperatura aumentará alrededor de 10 F para llegar a 145 F para término medio crudo o 160 F para término medio.
- Corte el asado en rebanadas de manera transversal a la dirección de las fibras.
Mini pinchos navideños de albóndigas de res con salsa de barbacoa de arándanos
Receta cortesía de Beef Loving Texans
Tiempo Total: 50 minutos
Porciones: 12
- 1 libra de carne molida
- 1 taza de calabacín fresco, rallado
- 1 huevo
- 1/2 cucharadita de sal
- 1/4 cucharadita de pimienta
- 1 cebolla amarilla pequeña, cortada en cubitos de 1/2 pulgada
- 2 pimientos rojos, cortados en cubitos de 1/2 pulgada
- 2 pimientos verdes, cortados en cubitos de 1/2 pulgada
- 12 pinchos (6 pulgadas)
Salsa barbacoa de arándanos:
- 1 lata (16 onzas) de salsa de arándanos y bayas enteras
- 3 cucharadas de salsa barbacoa
- Precaliente el horno a 400 F.
- En un tazón mediano, mezcle ligeramente la carne molida, el calabacín, el huevo, la sal y la pimienta hasta que estén bien combinados. Forme 24 albóndigas de 1 pulgada. Coloque las albóndigas, cebollas, pimientos rojos y pimientos verdes en los pinchos de forma alterna. Coloque los pinchos en una bandeja para hornear con bordes poco profundos.
- Hornee de 22 a 25 minutos, o hasta que el termómetro de lectura instantánea insertado en el centro de la albóndiga registre 160 F.
- Para hacer la salsa barbacoa de arándanos: En una cacerola mediana, combine la salsa de arándanos y la salsa barbacoa; cocine a fuego lento durante 5 minutos, o hasta que los sabores se mezclen.
- Rocíe la salsa sobre las brochetas o sirva como salsa para remojar.
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Tobacco is still one of the world’s top killers – here are the key obstacles to enacting generational smoking bans
Marie Helweg-Larsen, Dickinson College
Smoking is really bad for you. Most people know that. Even smokers think smoking is bad for one’s health. But most people don’t know just how bad it is.
More people in the United States die every year from smoking than from alcohol, illegal drug use, car accidents, suicides and murders combined. Cigarette smoking costs an estimated US$240 billion annually in health care costs, which harm not only smokers but also nonsmokers, communities and the economy. Smoking is the top preventable cause of death and disease in the U.S. and worldwide.
The number of smokers in the U.S. has declined from 41% in 1944 to 11% in 2024. However, over 25 million Americans still smoke.
This drop is partly the result of many smoking laws enacted in the past 50 years. They include national bans on cigarette advertising on television and radio (1971), smoking on commercial flights (2000), sale of fruit- or candy-flavored cigarettes (2009), and sale of cigarettes to people ages 18 to 20 (2019). New policies might seem as strange or unfamiliar as these measures did at the time.
One potentially transformative idea – creating a tobacco-free generation – would build on these past laws. It would phase out smoking by banning it permanently for anyone born after a specific date. For example, a law could make it illegal for anyone under 21 to ever buy cigarettes, whereas people age 21 or older at the time would not be affected. The focus would be on tobacco sales, which already require age verification in the U.S., not on criminalizing tobacco use.
As a psychological scientist, I have studied for decades how people think about smoking. In my view, the key obstacle to creating future generations of nonsmokers is that people do not fully understand how dangerous smoking is and do not realize the formidable influence of the tobacco industry.
Creating a tobacco-free generation
The idea of creating a tobacco-free generation was first proposed by health researchers in 2010. In 2021 the town of Brookline, Massachusetts, became the first U.S. community to adopt it. Brookline’s ordinance prohibits tobacco and vape sales to anyone born on or after Jan. 1, 2000. It has survived a legal challenge and has been emulated in 22 more Massachusetts towns.
As of early 2026, Hawaii and Massachusetts are considering statewide tobacco-free generation bills. Abroad, the Maldives enacted the first countrywide ban in 2025.
Similar proposals have faced pushback elsewhere. In New Zealand, a ban was adopted in 2022 but repealed in 2024. The United Kingdom is considering a similar bill after an earlier version was scrapped due to a snap election.
Why people underestimate harm from cigarettes
It is hard to visualize what exactly it means that 480,000 people in the U.S. die from smoking every year or that each cigarette that you smoke shortens your life by 20 minutes. It is also easy to feel optimistically biased about one’s personal risk as a smoker and believe that others are more likely to become addicted or die prematurely.
Studies show that nonsmokers, former smokers and current smokers underestimate smoking risks. One likely reason is messaging by the tobacco industry, which claimed for decades that cigarettes were safe, even though tobacco industry scientists knew as early as 1953 that smoking caused lung cancer.
Another factor is glamorization of cigarettes in movies. Fully half of the top films released in 2024 showed tobacco imagery, typically of cigarettes. Research shows that adolescents and young adults who watch smoking in movies are more interested in taking up smoking.
Finally, smoking deaths may seem to be unremarkable because some of the illnesses that cigarette smoking causes, such as heart disease or cancer, are commonplace. And unlike deaths from drug overdoses, we do not always see the consequences of a lifetime of smoking. https://www.youtube.com/embed/2mKyosQbFNY?wmode=transparent&start=0 Smoking imagery is widespread in popular culture and may be one driver of tobacco use, especially among young Americans.
What about freedom of choice?
A common argument against laws that regulate personal choices, such as whether to smoke or wear seat belts, is that people prize their autonomy and don’t like governments telling them how to live. This isn’t a new challenge for public health policies, which often restrict private citizens’ freedom to do as they wish.
People can be persuaded that community action should trump individual choice if a behavior, such as smoking cigarettes or driving while drunk, harms others who don’t engage in it. Many public health laws are designed to protect people who are innocent or vulnerable. For example, current smoking laws have been enacted in part to protect nonsmokers who are exposed to secondhand smoke, especially children. And smoking increases health care costs for everyone, not just smokers.
By preventing people in the U.S. who cannot legally buy cigarettes now from ever doing so, generational smoking bans balance the rights of current adult smokers against the major public health benefits of a phased smoking ban that will eventually end the smoking epidemic.
Arguments against generational smoking laws
The tobacco industry’s attempts to undermine tobacco health policies are well documented and follow a predictable pattern. For example, when the U.K. government considered a generational smoking policy in 2023, tobacco companies and their supporters argued that smoking was a minor problem, that individuals should be responsible for their own choices, and that a nationwide ban would lead to illegal behavior or hurt business profits.
In a 2025 study assessing how Belgian politicians viewed generational smoking bans, researchers heard similar arguments. Respondents across the political spectrum valued personal freedom and informed individual choice more highly than protecting children. The politicians also believed that young people could understand how smoking affected their health, and that raising awareness was more important than bans. These arguments aligned with tobacco industry positions.
However, research shows that young people hold many optimistic beliefs about smoking, especially with respect to the addictiveness of nicotine and the likelihood that they will avoid becoming lifelong smokers. Studies have also found that adolescents don’t know enough to make an informed choice to smoke. These findings matter because the tobacco industry routinely targets young people in an effort to create lifelong smokers.
The tobacco industry’s harm reduction approach frames e-cigarettes, also known as vapes, as a way to create a smoke-free future by transitioning smokers to other nicotine products. But research shows that the tobacco industry actively markets nicotine products such as vapes to young people to create a new generation of nicotine users.
Not a silver bullet
Curbing the use of an addictive product is challenging, and there are ways for young people to obtain cigarettes illegally, as they do now in places where cigarette buyers must be at least 21. Tactics include shopping at stores that don’t check IDs, having older friends buy cigarettes and purchasing cigarettes illegally online.
Tobacco-free generation policies aren’t a silver bullet. They work most effectively in conjunction with other measures, such as plain packaging; high prices; bans on displays, advertising and flavored products; smoking cessation support; and public health messages making clear that cigarettes are unsafe at any age.
Still, health experts and groups including the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology argue that creating a tobacco-free generation could dramatically reduce preventable deaths and secure a healthier future for today’s children and future generations. In my view, understanding the obstacles to change is a critical step toward achieving this goal.
Marie Helweg-Larsen, Professor of Psychology, Dickinson College
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.
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Top Trends for Swoon-Worthy Cruise Vacations
Swoon-Worthy Cruise Vacations: From immersive dining to wellness at sea and elevated entertainment, cruise vacations are becoming some of the most experience-rich trips travelers can take. To take advantage of the evolution of the industry when planning your next vacation at sea, consider these emerging trends.
Top Trends for Swoon-Worthy Cruise Vacations
(Feature Impact) From immersive dining to wellness at sea and elevated entertainment, cruise vacations are becoming some of the most experience-rich trips travelers can take.
“Our industry has long been known for innovation, but what’s most compelling now is how that scale is being leveraged to invest in more immersive entertainment, wellness experiences and purpose-driven exploration at destinations around the world,” said Chiara Giorgi, global event and brand director for Seatrade Cruise Global, the largest and longest-running annual event of its kind serving every sector of the international cruise industry, including cruise lines, suppliers, travel agents and partners.
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To take advantage of the evolution of the industry when planning your next vacation at sea, consider these emerging trends identified at the conference.
The Rise of Floating Wellness Retreats
Once upon a time, wellness meant spas, saunas and massages. Wellness in 2026 is much more luxurious and is deeply embedded into the cruise experience. For example, Cunard’s “Wellness at Sea” voyages integrate expert-led fitness, nutrition, mindfulness and recovery programming, turning wellness into a structured, goal-driven experience and elevating wellness as a core pillar of the onboard experience. Additional cruise lines, including Virgin Voyages and Celebrity Cruises, are also helping raise the bar on floating wellness. Think thermal suites, meditation spaces and sleep-focused programming, along with wellness excursions and destination-inspired spa rituals that extend the experience to the shore.
Dining Becomes the Experience
Dining has long been a key component of many cruises, but now, food and drink are evolving from a cruise staple to a central form of entertainment and cultural discovery. Cruise lines are investing in immersive dining environments, destination-inspired menus and beverage programs that connect guests more directly with the places they visit.
From location-specific cuisine to interactive dining concepts and destination-driven cocktail programs, F&B@Sea, Seatrade Cruise Global’s companion show, found culinary experiences are increasingly designed to be memorable punctuation points of the journey itself. Across the industry, cruise lines are investing heavily in culinary programs that blur the line between dining and entertainment. Tapping into the supper club trend, Royal Caribbean introduced the Empire Supper Club to turn dinner into a night out at sea, combining multi-course menus, craft cocktails and live music for a full evening experience.
Exploring Expeditions with Purpose
Expedition travel is having more than a moment. It continues to grow as travelers seek deeper engagement with the natural world. Leading the shift toward purpose-driven explorations, operators such as National Geographic-Lindblad Expeditions, long recognized for pioneering modern expedition travel, helped define this category through a model rooted in education, conservation and hands-on exploration. Built on the belief that exploring the world can inspire people to care more deeply for it, expert-led expeditions, such as kayaking among glaciers, participating in citizen science programs studying seabirds and learning directly from naturalists and scientists, place a strong emphasis on stewardship and real-world learning.
Ships as Cultural Hubs
Entertainment at sea is expanding beyond traditional stage shows to include immersive productions, music residencies and partnerships with leading performing arts brands. For example, Holland America Line joined forces with The Verdon Fosse Legacy to debut “Fosse and Verdon, The Duet That Changed Broadway,” a live musical and multimedia tribute celebrating the revolutionary work of Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon by bringing it to an international stage at sea for the first time.
As cruises continue to expand their global footprint, the Seatrade Cruise Global event positions itself not simply as a trade gathering, but as the central forum where trends are explored and defined. To learn more, visit seatradecruiseevents.com.
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Presqu’ile Winery Partners With LAND to Bring Contemporary Art to Santa Maria Valley
Presqu’ile Winery and LAND are partnering to bring free, site-responsive contemporary art to the Santa Maria Valley estate in Santa Barbara Wine Country.
Santa Barbara Wine Country is about to get a fresh reason to linger a little longer. Presqu’ile Winery has announced a new collaboration with Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND), the nationally recognized nonprofit known for taking contemporary art out of traditional museums and galleries and placing it directly into the environments that shape it. The result: curated, site-responsive works—some created specifically for the property—installed across Presqu’ile’s Santa Maria Valley estate.
A winery becomes an open-air gallery—at no cost
Under the partnership, Presqu’ile will serve as a host site for LAND programming, opening its estate to the public for free. Visitors can expect contemporary art integrated into the vineyard setting, with select installations shaped by the landscape itself. The goal is simple and ambitious at the same time: expand no-cost access to contemporary art along California’s Central Coast while creating a cultural experience that feels inseparable from the place it inhabits.
LAND’s approach is rooted in the belief that art should be experienced where people actually live, work, and gather. Rather than building exhibitions around white walls and controlled lighting, LAND supports projects driven by place—work that engages the environment, the community, and the lived experience of the artists creating it.
“Nourishing reciprocity” between art, landscape, and community
Laura Hyatt, Director of LAND, emphasized how the Central Coast setting opens new creative possibilities for artists.
Hyatt noted that collaborating with Presqu’ile gives artists the opportunity to engage with the region’s natural beauty and unique ecology—placing artworks in what she described as “nourishing reciprocity” with the landscape and the visitors moving through it. She also highlighted the long-term potential of the partnership, which allows for deeper exploration over time, expands LAND’s geographic reach, and strengthens connections between Southern and Central California.
For Hyatt, the collaboration is personal as well: her family has roots in the area going back five generations, adding another layer of community connection to the work LAND hopes to cultivate.
A shared mindset: tradition, experimentation, and a sense of place
Presqu’ile framed the partnership as a natural extension of what the winery already does—balancing tradition with experimentation. In the same way winemaking can honor time-tested methods while still pushing toward new expressions, contemporary art can offer new ways of seeing familiar processes and landscapes.
Matt Murphy, co-founder of Presqu’ile Winery, said the family’s appreciation for the visual arts made the collaboration an easy “yes.” He pointed to the opportunity to create “fun, compelling and unexpected” ways for the community to engage with both the installations and the estate itself—and to experience Presqu’ile through each artist’s creative lens.
What happens next
In the near term, LAND will install artworks developed through its programming on the Presqu’ile property, with public access remaining free. The collaboration is designed with community benefit at its center, positioning the estate as a cultural and agricultural destination—not just a tasting room.
Looking ahead, Presqu’ile has submitted plans for approval to develop expanded spaces intended to support free public art, cultural programming, and community gathering. If approved, those improvements would signal a long-term commitment to integrating arts and culture into the estate experience and welcoming future partners whose work aligns with Presqu’ile’s values of openness, creativity, and place-based expression.
Additional details—including participating artists and installation timelines—will be announced as the collaboration progresses.
About the partners
Presqu’ile Winery
Presqu’ile (pronounced press-keel) is a family-owned estate winery in Santa Maria Valley on California’s Central Coast. Founded in 2007, the winery produces cool-climate wines from its sustainably farmed estate vineyard and from a select group of growers across Santa Barbara County. The name—French Creole for “almost an island”—reflects the Murphy family’s Gulf Coast heritage and the winery’s deep emphasis on place.
Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND)
Founded in 2009, LAND is a nonprofit arts organization dedicated to connecting people and places through site-responsive public art and programs. Over 15 years, LAND has presented more than 500 artists across 300+ programs and exhibitions, ranging from large-scale sculptural commissions to billboards, roadside screenings, workshops, and city-wide video presentations—reaching millions of people.
Why it matters
This collaboration isn’t just about adding art to a winery—it’s about rethinking where art belongs, who gets to access it, and how landscape can become part of the creative process. For the Central Coast, Presqu’ile and LAND are setting the stage for a new kind of cultural destination: one where a walk through the vines can also be a walk through contemporary ideas, made visible in the open air.
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Organization: Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND)
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- LAND media contact: kyle@hellothirdeye.com
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