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Learning, growing can all start with healthy snack

It’s shocking that despite all the medical advances over the last century, today’s children are expected to have a shorter life expectancy than their parents. A big contributor to...

DATE: Aug 7, 2018 | CATEGORY: Healing Nutrition

Yellow Carrot makes a move, opens for breakfast, lunch and dinner

Coffee bar to serve 81301 brew

DATE: Aug 5, 2018 | CATEGORY: Business

The inside scoop from a judge at the chuck wagon cook-off

Olathe sweet corn, Palisade peaches, Bayfield farmers market tomatoes – as a food lover, this is one of my favorite times of year. Another highlight is when the organizers of the ...

DATE: Jul 31, 2018 | CATEGORY: Food

This cozy cobbler can be made to suit almost any fruit - or mood

When I make dessert, I tend to have a plan. I’d rather save the improvising and fridge cleaning for savory preparations. This cobbler, however, might go a long way toward loosenin...

DATE: Jul 30, 2018 | CATEGORY: Food

How to keep your cool when it feels too hot to cook

Congrats, you’ve made it through July! You’ve got this cooking in summer thing down, right? Except there’s still August, arguably the most punishingly hot and steamy month. Even if you can’t...

DATE: Jul 29, 2018 | CATEGORY: Food

Coke is hoping to turn free water machine into a cash stream

NEW YORK – Can a machine that dispenses water for free also turn into a cash stream for Coca-Cola? The world’s largest soda maker is testing a fountain that lets people fill reusa...

DATE: Jul 29, 2018 | CATEGORY: Food

I bake for dogs, and they eat it up

Puppy season kicked off last month, with posts on social media and a flood of photographs and videos filling up my feed. My friends and their friends, and, it seems like everyone else’s frie...

DATE: Jul 27, 2018 | CATEGORY: Food

This curry takes you from India to Thailand and back - in nothing flat

Recipe intimidation can come from many sources: A technique or an ingredient you’re not familiar with, or one you are - and know you don’t like. Or sometimes it’s cumulative. You read throug...

DATE: Jul 26, 2018 | CATEGORY: Food

Ditch your nighttime overeating

Do you know that feeling? The one where you’ve finished a healthy dinner and then thought to yourself, “I’m hungry, I need a snack,” and before you know it, the entire bag of chips or carton...

DATE: Jul 25, 2018 | CATEGORY: Healing Nutrition

How to cook for one in a group house where everyone is cooking for one

Your housemate uses two burners on the right side of the stove to boil spaghetti and saute vegetables, while you commandeer the left side for enchilada sauce and filling. All is well, until ...

DATE: Jul 24, 2018 | CATEGORY: Food

If you throw basil, tomato and mozzarella on a plate and call it Caprese, these tips are for you

Eating a ripe, juicy tomato in summer is a delight. Sometimes that’s all you need to appreciate one of the best foods of the season. A Caprese salad, however, is another way to hi...

DATE: Jul 23, 2018 | CATEGORY: Food

Mom blames teen’s death on packaging for peanut cookies

WESTON, Fla. – A Florida mother blames the death of her 15-year-old daughter on what she calls confusing packaging for Reese’s Chips Ahoy cookies. In a July 12 Facebook post, Kell...

DATE: Jul 19, 2018 | CATEGORY: Food