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Animas Grange talk to cover role of pollinators in gardens

Presentation to discuss role of bugs, birds and bats in growing food

DATE: Jul 12, 2017 | CATEGORY: Food

Hospitals aren’t where you expect to find healthy, creative food. But why not?

Some of the children at the Verner Center for Early Learning came up with a Brussels sprouts dance. Others have asked for second helpings of asparagus. Food and nutrition manager ...

DATE: Jul 5, 2017 | CATEGORY: Food

‘Milk’ not the only contested word in the food world

Even government agencies can’t always agree on whether “soy milk” is an appropriate term. The dairy industry wants terms like soy, almond and rice milk to vanish from supermarket ...

DATE: Jul 5, 2017 | CATEGORY: Food

For this grilled eggplant dish, the hummus is nutty

This spin on “hummus” deserves its quotation marks because it doesn’t contain chickpeas. Instead, it is a spreadable blend of pistachios and edamame seasoned with Middle Eastern flavors, inc...

DATE: Jul 5, 2017 | CATEGORY: Food

Students caught in crossfire over public school meal debts

New Mexico first state to outlaw school meal shaming

DATE: Jul 4, 2017 | CATEGORY: Food

Cast iron cooking a timeless method as old as the West

There are very few things as appealing and timeless as cooking with cast iron. With its heritage dating to the establishment of the first foundries in the late 1800s, cast iron evokes someth...

DATE: Jul 4, 2017 | CATEGORY: Food

Make the ice cream sandwich of your dreams – only assembly is required

Certain ice cream and cookie flavors complement one another

DATE: Jun 29, 2017 | CATEGORY: Food

Kale salad a vitamin-rich July Fourth addition

Walking down to the Durango Farmers Market, you can see one thing at almost every booth – a beautiful array of early season red, purple and green kale. Kale is high in Vitamin K,...

DATE: Jun 28, 2017 | CATEGORY: Food

Oregon joins states where roadkill can be harvested for food

Practice is legal, with certificate, in Colorado

DATE: Jun 27, 2017 | CATEGORY: Food

How to make a vegetarian poke that’s a ringer for tuna

I’ve never been to Hawaii, not even back when the main ingredient in its national dish, poke, was part of my diet. So now that poke shops are proliferating on the mainland, I have to confess...

DATE: Jun 27, 2017 | CATEGORY: Food