Category: food
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#Coronaviruscooking
People are spending much more time cooking and baking while social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic. You can’t miss the luscious loaves of homemade bread and plated meals everyday people display on social media, using hashtags like #coronaviruscooking and #coronavirusbaking. While I have been trying lots of new recipes, I’ve also been more conscious of…
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Learn to Cook Heart-Healthy Meals
Although it’s usually healthier to cook at home than to order takeout or eat in restaurants, people often avoid cooking because they think they don’t know how. In her book The Kitchen Counter Cooking School, Kathleen Flinn talks about this fear and shares her experience where she taught nine women who were novice cooks how…
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Bask in the Benefits of Culinary Therapy
We all know stress reduction is essential to stay healthy. What better way to enjoy a heart-healthy lifestyle than to cook a delicious meal and relax in the process? More and more health experts are recognizing the therapeutic benefits of cooking. Research published in 2004 showed that mental health patients benefited from baking classes, helping…
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Peaches and Pastry
Peach season is one of my favorites—whether I am baking a peach pie or crisp, dicing peaches for salsa to accompany chicken or simply biting into a blushing peach out of my hand, with the juice running down my arm. According to tradition, each summer I bake a peach pie for Dan, whose birthday falls…
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Heart Health: Balancing the Straight and Narrow
A friend shared recently that her cousin had a heart attack. Several months later, he was regularly hitting the drive-through at his favorite fast-food chain. “What could he be thinking?” she asked. I nodded as I listened. I understood all too well. When someone puts you on an austere diet and tells you that you…
La Dolce Vita: Our Heart-Healthy Culinary Journey 