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Maple syrup and dates add a healthful spin to baked apples

The autumnal aroma filling your kitchen as this dessert bakes will have you swooning well before its time to dig in. It’s an anticipation that makes eating it even better, priming...

DATE: Oct 19, 2020 | CATEGORY: Food

Sourdough tips and resources from a former skeptic

When the sourdough craze arrived in the spring at the start of our pandemic life at home, said sourdough was not for me, for now. At a time of unprecedented challenge – personally, professio...

DATE: Oct 14, 2020 | CATEGORY: Food

How to make a family cookbook, filled with recipes from your favorite people

While the term “ambiguous loss” was coined by Pauline Boss in the 1970s, the phenomenon feels ever-present today. So many of us are suffering from the physical absence of loved ones and acti...

DATE: Oct 13, 2020 | CATEGORY: Food

Gingery carrot-apple pancakes welcome fall with a subtle sweetness

These are not typical flapjacks with bits of apple and carrot mixed in for seasoning. Here, the produce leads the way with mounds of shredded green apple and carrot bound into tender, lightl...

DATE: Oct 12, 2020 | CATEGORY: Food

Sugar adds more than sweetness to baked goods. Here’s what to know before you cut it.

In basically every baking recipe that uses it, sugar is doing so much more than providing sweetness. It’s an important component of the carefully designed chemical reactions taking place in ...

DATE: Oct 7, 2020 | CATEGORY: Food

A sweet potato and mushroom quesadilla-pizza mash-up that’ll surprise you

At first glance, you might not think that Jacques Pépin and Haile Thomas have all that much in common. He, of course, is one of the best-known chefs in the world, an 84-year-old F...

DATE: Oct 6, 2020 | CATEGORY: Food

Fast food got slower in 2020, costing millions in lost revenue

In the fast food business, every second counts – especially during a pandemic. The average time to get an order at 10 of the biggest fast-food chains in the U.S. this year is just...

DATE: Oct 5, 2020 | CATEGORY: Food

This healthful twist on the French dip is also fun finger food

One upside of working from home, as many of us are these days, is the ability to upgrade your lunch from what you might normally bring to the office. Take a sandwich, for example. At home, y...

DATE: Sep 28, 2020 | CATEGORY: Food

Every fall, I celebrate the Moon Festival with mooncakes. This year, I’m ordering them online.

People may be all about pumpkin spice lattes for fall, but for me, it’s not complete without mooncakes. Chinese people around the world eat them in celebration of the Moon Festiva...

DATE: Sep 23, 2020 | CATEGORY: Food

How to build better tacos at home, from the tortillas to the toppings

I have read a lot of fine literature in my day, full of beautiful turns of phrases and imagery. One of my favorites, though, is one you, too, may be familiar with if you’re a parent: “Pantlo...

DATE: Sep 21, 2020 | CATEGORY: Food

Tofu sales skyrocket during the pandemic, as consumers search for affordable meat alternatives

American grocery store shoppers became accustomed to limits on certain household staples during the first half of 2020. The quest for toilet paper, ground beef and hand sanitizer sparked pan...

DATE: Sep 21, 2020 | CATEGORY: Food

Colorado workers protest COVID-19 fine issued to meat plant

DENVER – A union representing workers at a Colorado meatpacking plant where six workers died of COVID-19 and hundreds more were infected staged a protest Wednesday, claiming that federal off...

DATE: Sep 16, 2020 | CATEGORY: Business