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Carving a pumpkin this fall? Don't throw any of it away!
(Photo: Stephanie Davis / iStockPhoto) "Jeff, can't we at least celebrate the holiday before you eat the decorations?" I've heard that more than once from my long-suffering wife during our 26-year marriage. You see, cheapskates like to...
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Eight of the Internet's weirdest meat creations
Lady Gaga's meat dress at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards certainly got people's attention. It may be gross, but it's not so shocking when you realize that it builds on an Internet legacy of experimenting with meat. Long before Gaga...
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Choose these healthy alternatives to sports drinks
Our bodies are composed of 60 percent water and it is vital for the proper functioning of cells and organs to maintain optimal hydration, especially during hot summer months. Many of us not used to these particularly hot temperatures...
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25 things chefs never tell you
(Photo: Getty Images) Do restaurants recycle the bread basket? Are most of us bad tippers? Food Network Magazine surveyed chefs across the country — anonymously — to find out everything we’ve always wanted to know....
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The elimination diet: Discover your migraine triggers
Seventeen percent of the population will experience migraine headaches at some point in their life. These debilitating headaches can last for days and are often accompanied by nausea and sensitivity to light and sound. Abo...
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Burger King drops Indonesian palm oil company
A Burger King sign outside a Miami restaurant. US fast food giant Burger King said Thursday it would no longer buy palm oil from Sinar Mas or its subsidiaries after Greenpeace campaigned against the Indonesian group's land-clearing practi...
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10 decadent foods with half the guilt
(Photo: Getty Images) It's hardly a secret that cooking fresh foods at home is better for your health, waistline, pocket book, and the planet than choosing packaged foods or eating take-out. Does that mean you can ea...
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Egg farmers respond to the salmonella recall crisis
(Photo: FDA) How is the egg industry handling the recalls? (Egg Recall List) Yesterday, major newspapers ran a full-page ad from “America’s Egg Farmers” (I saw it in USA Today and in the New York Times). The ad displays...
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Bring the produce to the people
In the past couple of years, food trucks have become popular across the United States, in cities like Los Angeles, New York City, Portland, and San Francisco. You can find nearly every kind of food on them, from typical far...
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Navigating that puzzling chocolate terminology
It used to be there were two kinds of chocolate: chocolate chips and chocolate bars. Then there was dark chocolate and milk chocolate, and soon thereafter white chocolate came into play. But take a look around at all of th...
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