Food - The Durango Herald

Cool, spiced Mexican horchata is the ultimate refresher for fall

I used to be a travel writer, and one of the pieces of advice I gave and followed the most was to pay attention to shoulder season. London in early April? Cape Cod in October? Yes and yes. ...

DATE: Oct 23, 2019 | CATEGORY: Food

The skinny on intermittent fasting

It seems these days that everyone I chat with has questions about intermittent fasting. As simple as “just not eating” sounds, there is an art and science behind it. Abstaining fr...

DATE: Oct 23, 2019 | CATEGORY: Strength in Well-being

Move over, Honeycrisp: New apple to debut at grocery stores

SPOKANE, Wash. – They call it the Cosmic Crisp. It’s not a video game, a superhero or the title of a Grateful Dead song. It’s a new variety of apple, coming to a grocery store nea...

DATE: Oct 20, 2019 | CATEGORY: Food

Cholesterol: The good, the bad and the ugly

According to the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, 102 million Americans have unhealthy cholesterol levels above 200 mg/dl. More than 35 million of these people have leve...

DATE: Oct 16, 2019 | CATEGORY: Healing Nutrition

James Ranch grills up a restaurant

Fast-casual burger joint now open in northern Animas Valley

DATE: Oct 15, 2019 | CATEGORY: Food

Cone or scoop: Guinea pig ice cream for sale in Ecuador

QUITO, Ecuador – It’s a real ice cream flavor: guinea pig. Anyone who thinks of guinea pigs as pets cute, squishy, squeaking bundles of fur might find that idea hard to digest. ...

DATE: Oct 15, 2019 | CATEGORY: Food

Big avocado earns Hawaii family Guinness World Records honor

WAILUKU, Hawaii – A Hawaii family has won a place with the Guinness World Records for the world’s heaviest avocado. The Pokini family from the island of Maui received the Guinness...

DATE: Oct 13, 2019 | CATEGORY: Food

Durangoan invents and sells new style of seed-based spreads

DynaSeeds will be available at Durango Natural Foods on Friday

DATE: Oct 9, 2019 | CATEGORY: Food

Feeding the microbiome

The microbiome is what we call the community of trillions of cells that live in the large intestine. These bacteria and fungi outnumber all the other cells in your body put together. ...

DATE: Oct 9, 2019 | CATEGORY: Nourishing Morsels

Luv Box delivers plant diversity in a bento box

Maddalena Stancampiano caters lunches based in health, environmental sustainability

DATE: Oct 8, 2019 | CATEGORY: Food

Good Food Collective connects food and those who need it

Organization has expanded its programs in its second year

DATE: Oct 1, 2019 | CATEGORY: Food

What makes Impossible meat possible? A “bloody” ingredient

NEW YORK – What makes Impossible burgers possible? An engineered ingredient that makes the veggie patty look bloody – and one of many new concoctions food regulators expect to see more of in...

DATE: Sep 24, 2019 | CATEGORY: Food