Walnuts

10 Cooking Oil Tips

Laura Kumin | Posted 05.07.2012

Laura Kumin

Experienced cooks may not find much new in these tips. But for those who find the array of cooking oils in the grocery store to be mystifying, if not confounding, these tips may help.

Small Walnut Farmers Cut Supply To Big Foods Company

Reuters | Posted 04.14.2012

(By Mihir Dalal and P.J. Huffstutter - Reuters) - Some California farmers plan to stop selling their walnuts to Diamond Foods Inc in the wake of an ac...

Meatless Monday: Plats du Jour -- Seasonal = Delicious

Ellen Kanner | Posted 03.17.2012

Ellen Kanner

Before seasonality became a term embraced by foodies, it was how we lived, how we ate. Transportation was limited, refrigeration, other than what the climate and creativity offered, didn't exist.

The Serious Health Benefits

David Katz, M.D. | Posted 10.15.2011

David Katz, M.D.

My lab has completed two studies of walnuts -- our first study showed that adding walnuts to the daily diet of adults with Type 2 diabetes for two months significantly improved blood vessel health.

Finding Medicine In Your Kitchen Cupboard

Dr. Susan Albers | Posted 05.25.2011

Dr. Susan Albers

Sometimes, with my own clients, I prescribe a similar strategy for dealing with stress eating. There isn't a pill or a medication. Instead, there are certain foods that can help reduce emotional eating. Yes. It's ironic that food can prevent overeating.

Walnut Season Arrives (And a Recipe for Shiitake and Wild Black Walnut "Tartare")

Kurt Michael Friese | Posted 05.25.2011

Kurt Michael Friese

If you are fortunate enough to have one or two of these magnificent trees in your neighborhood, this is the time of year when you want to be trying to beat the squirrels to the walnuts.

From Conventional Walnut Farming to Growing (and Processing) Green

Russ Lester | Posted 05.25.2011

Russ Lester

I was born and raised in the Valley of the Hearts Delight, or as most people now refer to it, the Silicon Valley. After college, I decided to follow in my father's footsteps and farm.

The 10 Things You Need to Eat: Nuts

Dave Lieberman | Posted 11.17.2011

Dave Lieberman

People who eat almonds, peanuts, walnuts and other nuts as part of a diet program are more likely to lose weight than gain it, and are more likely to report feeling satiated after meals.

Let Food Be Thy Medicine: Top 10 Healing Foods Of The Decade

Dr. Patricia Fitzgerald | Posted 11.17.2011

Dr. Patricia Fitzgerald

The past decade has presented an explosion of clinical research to show specifically what health benefits individual foods can offer, identifying the various nutrients associated with these benefits.

Top 10 Foods to Lower Your Cholesterol

Dr. M.J. Wegmann | Posted 11.17.2011

Dr. M.J. Wegmann

When it comes to education and testing, greater numbers amount to greater success, but when it comes to cholesterol the higher the score the worse you often are.