For a recent magazine article, Martha Stewart was asked how often she orders take out. Her response was something like a couple times over the last 15 years.
Fact is, there are people “out there” who make healthy, good-tasting meals night after night like it’s no big deal. What do they know that most people don’t?
Turning hard grain kernels into soft baking flour I have a fondness for things that have withstood the test of time–like Farmer John’s grain mill. Manufactured in the 1940s and having traveled across three states before landing in Colorado, the mill is still in fine working order. No planned obsolescence here! Grain poured in the top funnel … Read more
Problem: You’re having rice for dinner, again. Solution: Jazz up grains with seasonal garlic scapes.
Super Foods can sound like a great idea–but when it’s 5:30 and you’re starved, fast, convenient, cheap processed foods beat them to the table. Ready for a winning strategy for Super Foods? Start with your imagination.
It’s quick and easy to freeze cherries for winter + get a great winter salad recipe for your frozen cherries.
The ill consequences of our couch potato culture aren’t limited to flabby abs and saggy triceps. All the homogenized foods that comprise the bulk of our diet have gradually eroded our “tasting muscles,” too, making it harder to enjoy and be satisfied with foods we feel good about eating.
What a way to stir up controversy, angst and anxiety: At a health fair last week, we demonstrated Spinach Sauteed with Pears and Bacon. Yes, you read that right. We made a dish featuring none other than bad boy bacon. Not turkey bacon, not a vegetarian imitation, not a special lean variety, just good old … Read more
If eating out is supposed to be so great, why are people increasingly disappointed about “eating out too much?”
Many doctors and nutritionists are recommending that we get our nutrients from foods. In fact, a recent Post article was titled “Why Bother With a Pill?” Indeed.
Plain old parsley is a super food? You bet, but why the surprise? What’s actually surprising is how we are continually surprised and impressed to find that the fruits of the earth, designed just for human nourishment, are good for us!