Food Tidbits

Make frozen treats for everyone

In "Pops! Icy Treats for Everyone" (Quirk, $15.95), Krystina Castella brings dozens of colorful, creative ideas to the freezer. Bing cherry-vanilla pops with yogurt, root beer float pops (made with soda, ice cream and maraschino cherries) and mai tai pops (definitely for grown-ups) are just three of the clever ways Castella updates the classic summertime treat.
The book is available at some Barnes & Noble stores and online at amazon.com.

Blooming lollipops
These cookie flower "lollipops" are pretty to look at and satisfying to eat-the sugar cookie buried under all that yummy frosting is tender and buttery. Cookies are $3.50 and $6 each (minus the sticks) at solomonscookies. com.

‘Two Fat Ladies' at home
Two fat ladies, a motorcycle with a sidecar, and more bacon, cream and butter than is good for anyone.
It's an odd formula for compelling food television, but it became the stuff of genius when Jennifer Paterson and Clarissa Dickson Wright transformed it all into the deliciously campy "Two Fat Ladies" cooking show.
The 24-episode BBC series, which first aired more than a decade ago and later was shown on public television and the Food Network, now is being released in the United States as a complete DVD set.
The series followed Paterson (who died in 1999) and Dickson Wright as they traveled by motorcycle, cooking for unusual crowds (such as lumberjacks and boys' choirs) in unlikely places (including breweries and castles).
The DVD set will be available Tuesday for $59.99 from www.acornonline.com.