The Taste-Buds-Pleasing Magic of Herbs and Spices By Dina Eliash Robinson To receive enthusiastic accolades for your cooking, no matter who eats at your table, all you need is a sense of what flavors enhance … Read More
STROKE PREVENTIVE FOODS AND LIFESTYLE
By Dina Eliash Robinson Less of a medical mystery, since the wider use of MRIs and other diagnostic tools, strokes still pose a danger to people of all ages. Risk factors include obesity, high blood … Read More
Avoiding The Toxic Food Minefields-Smart Health & Food Safety Tips
By Dina Eliash Robinson Those of us who are not billionaires and cannot afford individualized, custom-designed Concierge Medicine, nor personal nutritionists and chefs, can still keep ourselves safe, healthy and properly nourished by learning to … Read More
More Food Tips (Part II)
By Catharine L. Kaufman—a.k.a. The Kitchen Shrink Hello again, fellow foodies! Here is the second batch of 10 tried and true food handling, storing and cooking tips for your collection. Some of these I stumbled … Read More
Will FDA Comply With Court Order It Has Ignored For 35 Years?
After decades of foot-dragging and inaction in the implementation of its own1977 rule to rescind approvals for the use of certain antibiotics in farm animals, it might be foolish to believe that the Food and … Read More
Cinnamon: A Healing Spice And Its Mischievous Botanical Cousin
By Dina Eliash Robinson Valued since pre-Biblical times in Ceylon (today’s Sri Lanka) as a flavor-enriching spice and healing substance, “true” cinnamon (Cinnamonum verum—also identified by its provenance as Cinnamomum Zeylanicum) was priced 15 times … Read More
SHORT TAKES: Grapefruit Alert
A bewildered e-mail from the owner of a prolific grapefruit tree asking us for recipes and other uses for his overabundant crop, is prompting this reminder of the potential health hazards posed by this otherwise … Read More