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A recent study in the Archives of Internal Medicine proves that if one serving of nuts is good for you, two servings is even better. We've known for several years that nuts help reduce cholesterol, but the Department of Nutrition at Loma Linda University found that two servings of almonds, walnuts, pistachios, hazelnuts, peanuts, and macadamias ...

There's a chance this may be my last post on Epi-Log. A surfeit of other projects lately has meant I haven't been able to dedicate the amount of time I like to for each piece here, and the folks at Epicurious have been gracious enough to let me take some time off while I concentrate on other work (and actually get to spend an occasional hour or ...

Gourmet Geometry: Do you cut your sandwiches into triangles or rectangles? NPR makes a surprisingly detailed argument for triangles. Who Has Better Chefs: the East Coast or the West? The debate continues (rather nastily) in the New York Times. Worst Drive-Thru Robbery Ever: A Michigan man goes to a Wendy's drive-thru with a sawed-off shotgun and ...

Who doesn't love dark chocolate? (And we know Lauren Salkeld definitely digs the peanut-butter version.) Now there's reason not to feel guilty about dark-chocolate obsessions: A new study says that the stuff may help you handle stress. ''The study provides strong evidence that a daily consumption of 40 grams of dark chocolate during a period of ...

Food writing, I'm sure you'll agree, is by its nature descriptive and deliciously colorful. So you can imagine my concern when I read that many old words are on the brink of disappearing from the dictionary. Take these, for example: ponask v. - to cook game by splitting it and roasting on a spit macellarius adj.- pertaining to butchers cibosity n. ...

As August 7 approaches, the date when Nora Ephron's Julie & Julia movie hits theaters, the food media is unearthing all things Julia Child at an increasingly frenzied rate. For example: Contests: Users are invited to submit photos of their Julia Child-inspired dinners (dishes, menus, messy floors, whatever) to a Julia Child flickr pool at this ...

How many times have you had a meal where you had to take a moment to say, ''I love this!'' How many times have you sworn to friends and acquaintances that you ''love'' this food or that, or argued about why you'd be perfectly happy stranded on a dessert island with only an infinite supply of Hawaiian pizza to keep you company? But how many times ...

New sightings of extreme bacon worship: Have you seen the AK-47 made of bacon? Tried bacon jerky? Seared metal with a bacon plasma torch? Lived and slept with pigs for four days straight?

You know it's Easter time when everyone start squawking about Peeps, those chick- and bunny-shaped marshmallow treats that have been multiplying in Americans' springtime snack drawers since the '50s. Just Born has been trying to make Peeps more than just an Easter treat, though, trying everything from different shapes and flavors to Peeps lip ...

1. One hundred and twenty-three years ago on Sunday, Dr. John Pemberton first brewed something he called ''Esteemed Brain Tonic and Intellectual Beverage,'' to be sold to ''scientists, scholars, poets, divines, lawyers, physicians, and others devoted to extreme mental exertion.'' What is it called now? a. Angostura Bitters b. Bromo-Seltzer c. ...