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At American Heritage there is  new the best chocolate chips in the range. To mark this happy occasion, I'm sharing the Ryan family's recipe for chocolate chip cookies on the blog. I received it on my first trip to the USA many years ago - back then, these American cookies with chocolate chips were still relatively unknown here. Place all dry ingredients for the American Chocolate Chip Cookies into a mixing bowl and mix: 280 g flour (wheat or spelt flour) 150 g sugar 150g brown sugar 1/2 tsp salt 1/2 tsp Baking Soda Then add the wet ingredients and mix to form...

The legendary Red Barns - red barns or farms - characterize the American landscape. In the 18th century, the large wooden barns were still colorless, but the first farmers from Pennsylvania turned to the red dye they made themselves - Barn Red. It was made from a mixture of milk, lime and iron ore. The dye retained the heat longer and at the same time preserved the wood better. Our Milk Paints from American Heritage are similar organic paints that the Shakers used to make themselves. They contain casein and pigments. I love red barns because I have to stop...

A firefighter in beautiful California never gets bored: house and forest fires, extreme temperatures, floods and earthquakes are ravaging the country. Just last week there was another major earthquake in Napa. After that, around 60 houses were marked as being in danger of collapsing and were no longer allowed to be entered. After a smaller aftershock, one of them actually collapsed yesterday and the Napa fire department was called out again to rescue the occupant of the house who was staying in the house in violation of the regulations. Fire engines are such eye-catchers in America, but I have never...

Like all American success stories (think of Apple, HP, Microsoft and Google), the story of American Heritage also began in a garage. Admittedly a really stylish one, because it is dark green. I would like to introduce it on this occasion, because that is where our story began almost ten years ago. The first container delivery from America was stored in the green garage. Anything that didn't fit in there was stored with the nice neighbors. Of course, American Heritage quickly outgrew the garage and is now in its fourth warehouse with a loading ramp and heavy-duty shelving. But we...