What Happens to Your Body When You Eat Too Much Salt
What Happens to Your Body When You Eat Too Much Salt
Whether you’re sprinkling some on your salad or adding a few pinches to your homemade pasta sauce, adding salt to food is a regular part of many people’s culinary routines. However, while the 2020-2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommend that adults consume no more than 2,300 milligrams of sodium per day, most people in the U.S. are getting significantly more than that on a daily basis…
How Food Trucks Endured and Succeeded During the Pandemic
The Covid pandemic hit California hard. It has seen well over 3.5 million cases and over 60,000 deaths. Scores of businesses have closed. But for Ana Jimenez, the owner of Tacos El Jerry, a small fleet of food trucks in Santa Cruz County, it provided an opportunity to bring her business into the 21st century…
From Porridge to Popcorn: How to Cook With the Ancient Grain Sorghum
t may be an issue with branding, concedes Roxana Jullapat. Sorghum sounds odd – and not especially delicious. “I do wonder: why did quinoa get a chance and sorghum didn’t?” says Jullapat, who runs the Los Angeles bakery Friends & Family. She is also the author of Mother Grains: Recipes for the Grain Revolution. It is a cookbook, but also a love letter to whole grains and a manifesto for weaning people off wheat. Although Jullapat covers other “ancient” grains – including rye, oat and barley – in the book, sorghum is probably the least familiar to most readers in the UK…
Netflix’s ‘High on the Hog’ Celebrates African American Food
In the new Netflix documentary series “High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America,” Stephen Satterfield leads viewers on a delicious journey, from the markets of Benin in West Africa to the rice fields of Carolina’s Low Country, from Thomas Jefferson’s elegant Virginia home to the dusty rodeos of Houston. Along the way, he meets chefs, bakers and writers, like chef B.J. Dennis of Charleston, baker Jerrelle Guy and culinary history Michael W. Twitty, who illuminate the joy and depth African American food contributed to America…
Cooking for Just One or Two? Maximize Your Meal Planning With These Healthy Recipes
FEATURE — Are you an empty nester? Perhaps a college student who lives alone? Maybe you are a single parent of one or two children. No matter what particular situation you are in, creating healthy meals for one or two people may seem like a chore…
15 Ways to Make Your Favorite Meals Meatless
Memorial Day is just around the corner which means it’s time to amp up your recipe game and get ready to entertain family members and friends. However, if you’re trying to eat more plant-based foods, the holiday could set you back as some of our favorite cookout-friendly dishes typically contain some type of meat, dairy, or eggs…
Should We Eat Like Pro Athletes?
It’s no secret that professional athletes follow all sorts of diets to keep in shape. Serena Williams, still a top-ranked player at 39, once followed a raw and vegan diet. LeBron James likes organic and no sugar. Tom Brady, who won his seventh Super Bowl at 43 years old, is famous for the foods he avoids. If special diets work for them, could they help regular fitness buffs? Jackie Barcal, head nutritionist at IMG Academy in Bradenton, says the answer is nuanced…