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Filed under: How To, Health & Medical When we learn about nutrition, we tend to focus on calories and vitamins. We're taught about which foods may prevent cancer and help our immune system. We normally concentrate on the physical effects of food on our body. It turns out however that foods have many more properties. According to a recent ...

Filed under: Dessert, Bakeries, Artisan Foods I have a co-worker that has the ability to find some of the most amazing cakes on the internet. Knowing that have an unhealthy obsession with anything edible, he is nice enough to send links to those cakes in my direction on a near-daily basis. The cake you see above is another creation of Zoe Lukas ...

Filed under: Recipes, Soups/Salads, Summer One of the dishes I look forward to making when summer rolls around is the tomato salad you see above. It's nothing particularly special, just some chopped tomato (I use whatever I have on hand that is ripe, this time it was a bunch of sweet grape tomatoes) tossed with some roughly minced onion (I like ...

Filed under: Cheese, France, Cheese Course I often think about cheeses according to where they're from. Lately, I've been trying different Ossau-Iraty cheeses. These sheep's milk cheeses come from the French Pyrenees between the Ossau valley and the Iraty forest, hence its name. They are produced from the milk of basco-béarnaise sheep, a ...

Filed under: Dairy, Cheese, Slashfood Ate, Artisan Foods Ah, the cheese plate! What would a party be without it? People gravitate towards the plate and it becomes the focal point of conversation at the party: ''Have you tried this one? I highly recommend it!'' There are many different methods to building this exquisite platter of tasty ...

Filed under: Lists, Guilty Pleasures A while, back, I wrote a post on emotionally-based food aversions -- both my own (tuna noodle casserole), and those of loved ones (scrambled eggs, mayonnaise, garlic). Little did I know this was going to open up Pandora's icebox. More than 75,000 people weighed in on our ''What food hits your yuck button?'' ...

Filed under: Stores & Shopping, Food News The Safeway family of grocery stores (they own eight regional store brands, including Genuardi's, Vons and Tom Thumb) has always prided itself on being a friendly, consumer-oriented market. When I was growing up, we often shopped at Safeway, and the checkers always addressed my mom by name when she ...

Filed under: Fruit, On the Blogs, Health & Medical At first I thought, there's no way I'm taking a bunch of cherries and rubbing them on my arms and legs, but then I saw that you have to eat them. Our sister blog That's Fit has a post about how eating tart cherries can actually help you if you have soreness after a hard workout. They're a ...

Filed under: Whisky, Recipes, Cocktails, America, Spirits, Raising the Bar, Summer I know the Kentucky Derby was last month, and by some measures the venerable Mint Julep only crosses our radar then and then only. But when the day is hot and the thirst is mighty, I'd strongly suggest banging out a Julep. In continuing with the mint in cocktails ...

Filed under: Real Kitchens, Mother's Day In recent years, my mom has become increasingly difficult to shop for. She has been working at reducing the amount of stuff in her life and so doesn't want the knick knacks and gadgets that we once plied her with. So I've had to get creative and find ways of letting her know what I appreciate all that she ...