It's rare that we just plain ol' run a recipe on this site, so you know it's got to be awfully good. We're huge fans of women who play with fire and love Jennifer Chandler's quick, fresh, fantastic style of cooking.

When she told us she had a few Super Bowl-centric recipes from the upcoming "Simply Grilling: 105 Recipes for Quick and Casual Grilling," (and the guts to say her fried chicken method improved upon the classic one), we grabbed them and ran to glory. You should, too.

Got a layer of snow on the grill cover? Brush it off and spark it up 'cause it's game time.
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You can't help but be stunned by the visual splendor when walking around the Western Cape region of South Africa, in towns like Stellenbosch. Immediately you see why this part of the African continent is so well suited for the wine making craft, which was recently my mission for "Inside Africa."

The mountain ranges here reach upwards of 1,500 meters, circling a valley of rolling hills packed with rich soil. Winds become funneled forces of nature, sending gusts of clay and other minerals over the landscape. This kind of weather and topography help give Western Cape grapes their unique taste - but to make really good wine people have to be smart.

Read - A journey through South Africa's stunning wine region on CNN Inside Africa

Previously - Bunny chow (carrots possibly included), Spice up your diet, Nigerian-style and Yam-tastic!

Sink your teeth into today's top stories from around the globe.

• Behold the power of making your cheese last for weeks. - Forbes

• Eat mor chikin, make mor tackles? Linebacker Cassanova McKinzy chose Auburn over Clemson because of its proximity to Chick-fil-A. - Yahoo! Sports

• Leave the brackets for March Madness, say restaurateurs and chefs included in the Memphis Business Journal's Best Chef in Memphis tournament. - Memphis Flyer

• Fill up your tank then pop into Saxapahaw General Store for all your convenience needs like Slim Jims, pork rinds, chèvre and butternut squash bisque. - Gourmet Live

• Florence Fabricant dishes out advice on whether men should stand up for women when they get up/return to a table. - Diner's Journal

A sweet-tooth in Japan isn’t hard to satisfy. The country’s convenience stores are stocked with a range of intriguing confectionery, but often you’ve got to be quick to catch them.

A short shelf life isn’t because products like Hokkaido cheese chocolate are snapped up by hordes of roving umami-hunters, but because perpetual revolution of a product range is the key to survival for brands in Japan.

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While you're frying up some eggs and bacon, we're cooking up something else: a way to celebrate today's food holiday.

This treat is fit for the pearly gates - February 2 is National Heavenly Hash Day!

Whatever mental image the name of this mystery dish conjures up in your mind, you're probably right! That's because the name "heavenly hash" has been given to several things, and indeed, they all sound divinely inspired.

If heavenly hash is mentioned around the holidays, it's most likely that fluffy white fruit salad that can contain any number of yummy ingredients all swirled together. Typically, sour cream, mini marshmallows, mandarin oranges, coconut and pineapple chunks are mixed and left to sit in the fridge overnight.
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