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I freely admit to a long-time fear of beets. Growing up, I would sooner have eaten pot roast (yuck!) than consume anything even remotely resembling such a weird-looking root vegetable. While my dislike of pot roast has not altered with time, my opinion of root vegetables in general (and beets in particular) has. Beet greens [...]

I decided long ago that I didn’t particularly care for summer in the Northeastern US, which happens to be where I live. Summers here are too hot and muggy and buggy. When I was younger, I used to wish I could snap my fingers and have the weather go straight from spring-like to autumnal. But [...]

Yes, it’s a silly joke. The title reference here is not to the famed collie Lassie, but to Lassi, a traditional chilled drink that originated in southern Asia centuries ago, if not longer. Anyone who grew up in an area with a significant Indian population will recognize the word instantly. Lassi (pronounced luh-see) is a [...]

We all know at least one dark chocolate snob. As a rule, they’re an easy breed to recognize. They argue over percentages of cacao solids, invariably insisting on very dark chocolate; they loudly discuss the merits of single-bean and single-estate varieties; and they disdain milk chocolate as a weak impostor. I must beg these elitists, [...]

I know what you’re thinking. Either I’m secretly employed by a prune producer or this is all a big joke. Guess again! Though they are often maligned and the subject of crude jokes, prunes deserve better. Not only do they taste great, but they’re packed with nutrition. So let’s stop the jokes and get the [...]

Okay, so you’ve taken my earlier advice about wanting to bring your child(ren) into the kitchen but your not sure where to start. What do we do to get them interested in food? We get them to help make it! You’d be surprised at how much more willing they are to try new foods this [...]

Rarely do you find a menu for kids 12 and under that includes a vegetable let alone some fruit. Most restaurants offer the same sort of menu: grilled cheese, mac n cheese, hot dog, hamburger, fries, chicken nuggets ect. ect. Some of the bigger fast food chains are offering some healthy alternatives but if given [...]

Herbs are such a great way to give the dish your creating a more rounded and flavorful experience. Both types, dried and fresh, have a spot in my kitchen as their flavors and uses differ in so many ways. Dried herbs can be great for cooking entree’s that will take a longer time to cook. [...]

Why do Americans eat so much in the way of second-rate preserves? Questions like this keep me up at night. As a nation, we eat an astonishing quantity of fruit preserves annually. Sales of all fruit preserves reached nearly $622 million dollars in 2005, according to FoodNavigator-USA.com. Yet most people buy fruit preserves from their [...]

Talk about specialization! Still, Pomegranate Watch is THE site to read about the wonderful stuff out there featuring punica granatum: Vitamin Water XXX Acai Blueberry Pomegranate Vitamin Water has used the XXXtremely popular tried and true combination of Blueberry and Pomegranate, only this time they’ve added the other Pomegranate, Acai to the mix so people [...]