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These 10 food trends were the distractions we needed in 2020

This year, many of us spent a lot more time in our kitchens than we could have imagined, turning out multiple meals a day and sometimes getting bored with our own rinse-and-repeat repertoire...

Manna soup kitchen offers holiday cheer

When budgets are tight, 550 meals help brighten Christmas

Pandemic gives rise to Durango-based grazing board business

Alexis Saghie started Farm to Fingers after COVID-19 brought her home

Christmas dinner can be festive - and thrifty - with this $60 feast for four

One of the realities of Christmas 2020 is that many people are on tighter budgets than usual. That doesn’t have to be an impediment to a sumptuous, festive holiday meal – instead, let it be ...

Figs stuffed with goat cheese are the low-effort, high-flavor appetizer you need

I lit up like the twinkling decorations around me when I overheard two women at a holiday potluck a few years ago rave about their favorite bite of the night: the stuffed figs I brought! Thi...

It’s holiday meal time at Durango School District 9-R

Escalante Middle prepares 50 meals for families; DHS cafeteria hub for assembling 1,050 food bags

Crisp on top and cheesy throughout, this butternut squash and apple gratin belongs on your fall table

Every fall, I sample as many apple varieties at the farmers market as I can manage. My goal: Find the most flavorful, naturally – but also the absolute firmest, too. Nothing makes me sadder ...

Food giants seek ban on soy from deforested Brazil region

Some of the world’s largest food companies and grocers urged commodity suppliers including Archer-Daniels-Midland Co., Bunge Ltd., Cargill Inc. and Louis Dreyfus Co. to stop trading soybeans...

12 holiday cookie recipes to end the year on a sweeter note

Like just about everything else in this tumultuous year, baking in 2020 has felt like no other. From ingredient shortages and reduced grocery runs to the crushing, simultaneous we...

7 smart tips for baking better cookies

We’ve baked a lot of cookies in our time. Dozens of batches, untold hundreds (thousands?) of individual treats. Between all that cooking, along with a healthy dose of developing and editing ...

Allium essentials

Onions, shallots, scallions and leeks are mostly interchangeable in recipes. Here’s how to use what you have.

Examining China’s claims of coronavirus on frozen foods

BEIJING – China says it has detected the coronavirus on packages of imported frozen food, but how valid are its claims and how serious is the threat to public health? Frozen shrim...