Most children are anxious to eat dessert first, even if it is fruit. Vegetables, no matter which variety are just not a top priority for most eaters even when we understand the health value. There is a new film out called "Fed Up" that premiered at this year's Sundance Film Festival and explores the shift in ...
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Remembering our Roots
This stunning, vivid and dramatic still life painting by friend and local artist Ann Goble invites me to a time in the nineteenth century where I can almost smell the yeast rising across the kitchen in a pottery bowl and the burnt embers of the cooking fire smolder nearby. A time when the fresh picked ...
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Lebanese CousCous Salad
Tennis match today and I brought a couscous salad that celebrated spring. At a recent Williams Sonoma sale I picked up Lebanese CousCous. The grains are pearl-like in their round pea-sized shapes. The texture is soft and slightly chewy when cooked. Although any couscous would work fine in this recipe, the Lebanese style is a ...
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Hummus
Hummus is all the rage. Even the price of chick peas is rising because of the increased demand for everything hummus. A recent WallStreet Journal article revealed the economics of the growing demand for hummus and mediterranean food in the United States. After literally hundreds of batches of hummus, I have found two secrets that ...
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Visions of Vietnam
We recently returned from Vietnam. It is hard not to smile thinking of the bright colored vegetables and sweet fruits that seemed to be at every corner. This was our third visit to Vietnam and although there were many changes, especially economically, the growth and attraction of Vietnam is obvious. Food is clearly at the ...
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Mayan Brownies
Still thinking about Vietnam and discovering cinnamon trees along the road. The evergreen Saigon Cinnamon tree was lining the two-lane road we traveled to head toward the Ho Chi Minh trail. The forests seemed enchanted when I was made aware that the cinnamon trees were truly the trees where we get high quality cinnamon from. ...