You won't believe that something this good for you can taste so delicious.
When you lose the use of one sense, the others become heightened. That's certainly true for Gerry Leary of Boulder, Colorado. Leary has been blind since birth, yet he operates a successful coffee roasting business and a café near Boulder's main pedestrian mall, Pearl Street.
The eternal lightness of being, in the kitchen, is a delightful invention of the 20th century. Every now and then, however, comes a time to overdo it.
We used to think that "a calorie is a calorie" and all foods basically impacted our bodies the same way. We now know that's not true. In fact, there are some foods that are truly super -- they pack the biggest nutritional bang even in small portions and help fight diseases.
Even if you haven't ever been to Vermont, you've got some Green Mountains in your mind. I know you do. There's that image of a town with candles in windows. There are those trees tapped for sugaring. And there's that swirling nighttime snow.
According to health and nutrition expert Joy Bauer, starchy beans, including black beans, red beans, kidney beans and garbanzo beans are terrific opti...
I asked Chicago dietician David Grotto: What are some healthy, mainstream must-eat foods that should be on everyone's shiny new grocery list for 2013? Here are his top picks.
It all started one Saturday this summer, when we lunched at the home of friends. Maria served a delicious potato-leek soup that my family fell in love with.
Colorful and easy to make, this dish has heat, smokiness and is hearty without being too heavy.
Tex-Mex (a cross between Southwestern and Mexican) is a super easy cuisine to play around with in your own kitchen, especially since it's fusion in nature and includes a lot of pantry ingredients.
Lemon basil, it smelled divine so I bought a big bunch at the market. So now what do I do with it? The Splendid Table gives you some ideas.
By Bonnie Taub-Dix for U.S. News Health We've all heard the expression "shop the perimeter of the store." But if you skip the middle, you're missin...
Legumes -- a class of vegetables including beans, peas, and lentils -- are terrific to include in the diet. They are rich in and fiber and chock full of vitamins and minerals, including folate, manganese, iron, potassium, magnesium, and copper.
On a $33 food budget, "there's nothing extra for indulgences." Standing in the checkout line, "holding my breath, wondering, am I going to have enough money for this, or do the walk of shame and put something back on the shelf -- that was an entirely new experience."
"We never eat alone," says Crescent Dragonwagon. "Even if you are eating by yourself, you are not alone."
Slow-cooked food gets incredibly tasty, tough meats to grow rich and soft, and soups come away with extraordinary flavor. You have to plan ahead, but you get to do less work at the last minute.
An Everlasting Meal is less a cookbook with page after page of recipes, and more a book full of the author's thoughts about her favorite ways to feed, and even spiritually nourish, people with great food.
This recipe, a staple in our house, has become a symbol to me of how rich you can be even when you're broke. Humble, everyday ingredients transformed into something that's both beautiful and full of intense flavors.
Whether in the dining hall or in your own kitchen, remember these rules about portion control.
Once you're sold on the value of beans and enjoy eating them regularly, you may want to stretch a little and cook them from scratch. It's so much easier than you might imagine.
Long before fast food's so-called value meal, we had real ones. We cooked with the ingredients at hand, with what we could get.
Whether you are living in an apartment or sharing a kitchen with a hundred of your peers on your dormitory floor, here are the top eleven must have items for a first kitchen.
Beans are a great source of nutrition, and they play an important part in American regional cooking and culture. Here are the basics a cook needs to know about beans.
In East Asia, the color red is associated with luck and happiness, so it's no surprise that dishes featuring red ingredients are consumed as part of the 15 days of festivities beginning the year.
If for some reason or another I only had one breakfast left on this planet to eat, I would have huevos rancheros. Dinner or lunch, I might need to go ...
