Maggie Nemser, over at Yahoo!’s new Shine Foods, wrote an interesting post yesterday about expensive olive oils.
The verdict: they’re pretty much unnecessary.
For everyday cooking, you’re better off using the cheap grocery-store brand extra virgin olive oil (Note: I part ways with Maggie here – I don’t recommend using canola for anything other than deep frying. [...]
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Single? Congratulations! You don’t have to worry about anyone else’s weird picky food habits, or distaste for spinach, or need for every meal to consist of meat and potatoes. Just meat and potatoes.
There are several cookbooks out there with recipes for cooking for one, but they tend to be a little, well, less than helpful [...]
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(This is Part Two in a nine-part series on How Not To Give Your Friends (or Yourself) Food Poisoning and can also be found at Shine Foods)
In 1984, Barry Marshall grew a little H. pylori in his fridge, ate it, and went down in history for discovering that the source of stomach ulcers was bacterial.
I do not recommend this.
You can [...]
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So you’re running a little low on cash. Alright, maybe you aren’t, but I sure am, and canned goods are a cheap, usually healthy option to get me the through the week. But how do you know what is safe to to eat? Will that dent on the side kill you? Or just save you [...]
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