Editors' Picks
Go Greek!
For family occasions and friendly gatherings, serve up the rich tastes of taverna cuisine
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Pan-Asia
Take a culinary tour of the Far East with these authentic stir-fry creations
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Bean Basics
Discover how easy it is to start with dried beans and cook up a delicious, low-cost meal
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Local Color
Veg restaurant Cafe Flora in Seattle prints its commitment to local, mostly organic farmers right on the menu—and cooks up some amazing dishes with their produce
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Fun Yum Dim Sum
These Chinese "Tiny Bites" are make-ahead simple and irresistible to eat. Try one for dinner, or do them all for a dazzling finger-food party.
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Composting 101
Our tips and tricks will help you master the art of composting. Not only does composting keep waste out of landfills, but it’ll make your garden – and houseplants – thrive like never before.
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Why Go Veg?
People are drawn to vegetarianism by all sorts of motives. Some of us want to live longer, healthier lives...
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Simply Organic
These days, everyone seems to say how much heathier you'd be if your apples, cereal, eggs, milk—even candy and corn chips—were 100 percent organic.
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Meat without Murder
Modern technology and a handful of motivated scientists may just make factory farms and slaughterhouses a thing of the past.
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Nuke It!
Whether you’re a college kid cramming for final exams or an office worker who’s just plain tired of fast food, have we got some recipes for you! All you need: a microwave and a few minutes.
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Opening day
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Come the middle of April—no matter how cold the weather or how hard the rainfall, regardless of whether the Lenten rose is blooming, or a single song bird has appeared, shivering, from the south—I can always depend on one harbinger of spring: the opening of our local farmers’ market.
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Pollution inside your car
Informed consumers know by now that the “new car smell”—released by chemicals in seat cushions, armrests, floor coverings and other features of an auto’s interior—is not a good thing. But we’re just learning how bad it might be.
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A Meat-Free Pregnancy
I was just a couple of months pregnant when the questions started. My meat-and-potatoes mother-in-law would ask her son hopefully, “Has she started eating meat again?”
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Lasagna Done Light
Lasagna is like a sandwich: You can put anything between the layers and it’s still lasagna. In America, that tends to mean a supersize stack of tomato sauce, cheese, vegetables, what-have-you—with calorie counts and fat grams to match.
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Spoiled Rotten
Americans throw out 25 percent of the produce we buy because it’s gone bad. How to stop the waste? Know when to shop, learn which fruits and veggies don’t get along—and put one of these egg-shaped gizmos in your fridge.
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Tempting Tuscany
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A menu inspired by one of Italy’s picture-perfect Tuscan hill towns shows off springtime vegetables. Though I adore the pizza of Campania and the pesto of Liguria, I can’t help being partial to the fare of Tuscany, a region famous for its straightforward seasonal cuisine.
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Can You Pray Your Pounds Away?
The Bible is not generally thought of as a recipe book, but food is definitely important in the Scriptures. And diet advice was dispensed from the beginning, when Adam and Eve were commanded to subsist on plant foods alone (Genesis 1:29). However, God didn’t get seriously involved with weight loss until fairly recently, when Bible-based diet books started becoming best sellers. Do they work better than South Beach, the Zone or plain old calorie counting? Here’s the skinny from dieters and experts.
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Fuel For Thought
With more and more manufacturers bringing hybrids to market, it’s a good time to examine their pros and cons. What’s best for you? For the environment? For your wallet? We’ll help you find the answers, but first, a little background.
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Flavors - Parsley
With star chefs scattering cilantro over everything in sight and singing the praises of exotic herbs such as shiso and winter savory, it’s easy to overlook plain parsley.
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Pie For Dinner
Nothing takes the chill off a winter’s day the aroma of a pie in the oven. As the author of a great big book on pie, it’s no secret that these crust-and-filling delicacies are my passion.
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1 Food 5 Ways - Rice
Sure, bulgur is nifty and quinoa is cool, but rice remains our No. 1 grain—the daily staple for more than half the world’s population (can you imagine Mexican or Chinese food without it?).
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Mind Over Muscles
Visit the Fitness Pointe health center in Munster, IN, on a weekday evening and you’ll likely come across a 30-something woman doing bicep curls while quietly whispering to herself, “Increasing my strength gives me power. I can be whoever I want to be.”
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Cocoa
The chocolate power of this unsweetened powder goes well beyond warm winter drinks.
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Dip, Dip, Hooray!
Everybody loves chips and dip—but not the fat and calories that come along for the ride. So ease the guilt, and get on with the party with these high-flavored, low-octane (in fat and dairy) versions.
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Green Gifts
It’s open season in malls across America, a time when even normally eco-conscious shoppers can find themselves sucked into the vortex of mindless consumerism.
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Asian Accent
When I was introduced to Vietnamese food years ago, I was immediately taken with the incredible flavors of the simple dishes - aromatic rice, hot and sour soups, mild coconut-based curries, feathery noodles and Asian wraps. There is no mystery to this cuisine, just some easy techniques that turn simple ingredients into wonderful dishes.
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Dressed To Grill
Grilling summer veggies outdoors yields delicious salads - without heating up your kitchen indoors! When the thermometer tops out, who wants to cook? You will - once you've tasted a grilled vegetable salad.
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A Plea For Bees
Farmers' determination to spray their crops with herbicides and insecticides is one reason that American agriculture faces an imminent crisis.
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Simple Sautés
Sautéing foods is the French equivalent of stir-frying - it's a basic technique for quick, easy cooking. You just fast-stir small pieces of food in a little oil over moderately high heat, something all cooks do without thinking, "Oh, I'm sautéing!"
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Living Green
How one determined couple did what many of us long to do: chucked a high-rent life for what really matters
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Cheery Chowder
What’s a surefire way to get kids dashing to the dinner table? Simmer up a batch of hearty soup, and then sit back and watch it disappear. Kids love soup—it’s warm and soothing and slurpy.
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Wildfires: Stamp Them Out Or Let Them Blaze?
In the fall of 2003, in one of the biggest wildfires in California history, 22 people lost their lives, thousands more lost their homes, and hundreds of thousands of acres burned. Yet, by recent standards, 2003 wasn’t off the charts. In 2002, 7 million acres burned.
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White Bread vs. Wheat Bread
Simply switching from white to whole wheat bread can lower heart disease risk by 20 percent, according to research from the University of Washington reported in the April 2, 2003 issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association.
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8 Foods Every Vegetarian Should Eat
There is a world of reasons to go meatless, from heart health to animal welfare. But nutritionally, there’s one tricky trade-off. To help you fill in these gaps, we tapped the expertise of nutritionist Cynthia Sass, RD.
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Picking the Right Multivitamin
In general, do people need to take a multi?
Two large research reviews, published in 2002 and 2003, found that there really isn’t
a well-substantiated argument for—or against—a general multivitamin.
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Beet Generation
Tastier and more nutritious, Irwin Goldman’s superbeets and other superorganic vegetables reflect new “smart breeding.”
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