Drama at the holiday table: It’s not about the food
'Tis the holiday season, so there will be family gatherings, from Thanksgiving through New Year's Day, with a cast of assorted characters and equally varied victuals. Which begs an answer...
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Sweet crafts, easy potato pancakes and gluten-free stuffing
Sweet candy crafting Tap your inner crafter (and inner child) and invite kids to help make polar bears from marshmallows with Jodi Levine's new book, "Candy Aisle Crafts" (Potter Craft,...
Time-saving quick soups and cooking sauces
Super soup ideas Start a holiday feast with a selection from the new Garden Soup line from Dole Packaged Foods. The smooth textured soups are an easy first course. Perhaps...
Farms winterize to keep farmers markets open – here’s a list of markets
Cold and windy weather will send many farmers markets into hibernation by the end of October or the first weekend of November. But that doesn't mean farmers have stopped farming,...
Tastes of bacon, madeleines and yogurt
Links for bacon lovers For some, there is never enough bacon. For them, there is Big Fork's bacon sausage made with pork, and nitrate-free hardwood-smoked uncured bacon. The plump sausages...
‘Slim by Design’: Change environment to eat healthy
Brian Wansink has been watching what you eat for almost 30 years. OK, maybe not you, when you're sneaking snacks in the kitchen at 1 a.m. after binge-watching something on...
Lisa Barnes, neuropsychologist
Lisa Barnes is determined to untangle the risk factors and health disparities that lead to the high incidence of Alzheimer's disease in African-Americans. "African-Americans have a higher burden of many...
Cooking winter squash — chain saw not needed
The photo op and selfie site at the Green City Market this past weekend seemed to be at a stand piled high with winter squash of all shapes, stripes and...
Shelf Life: The Halloween edition
The flavor of the season, a mix of cinnamon, ginger, allspice, cloves, nutmeg and mace, runs through the recipes in Stephanie Pedersen's "The Pumpkin Pie Spice Cookbook: Delicious Recipes for...
Mix grains for great taste, texture
So you've cooked up a batch or two of quinoa. Sprinkled chia seeds on your steel-cut morning oats. Found packages of grains labeled spelt, millet, teff and kaniwa sitting next...