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One of the biggest misconceptions in making food choices is that all dietary fat is bad for you. Knowing the healthiest fats for cooking and eating makes food choice easy. There are two types of fat. Unsaturated fat is good for you (it helps lower LDL cholesterol, among other benefits). Saturated fat is bad for…
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We love peanut butter. But more and more children are being diagnosed with severe peanut allergies. The condition affects some three million Americans. In extreme cases, anaphylactic shock can be fatal within minutes. As a result, more and more schools are banning peanut products, eliminating that lunch staple, the peanut butter and jelly sandwich. But…
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Dry roasted and seasoned, we’re hooked onBobby Sue’s “Some Like It Hot” nuts.Photo courtesy Bobby Sue’s Nuts. A reader recently directed us to Bobby Sue’s Nuts, calling them the best nuts she’d ever had. While we’ve tried far too many brands of nuts to make that pronouncement, Bobby Sue’s is certainly up there in…
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Grandma Hoerner’s Big Slice Applesauceis the chunkiest you’ll find. Photo byRiver Soma | THE NIBBLE. Well, “chunky” may not be the most accurate word. Grandma Hoerner’s makes a specialty applesauce called Big Slice, because the applesauce is mostly large slices of apples, just like in a pie—but stewed to softness instead of baked. Grandma…
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Pomegranates are an unusual fruit. There’s no flesh, per se, inside that big red globe. Instead, there are scores of seeds, each covered with a translucent, ruby-colored juice sac. The seeds in the juice sac are called arils, a term that refers to a specialized outgrowth that covers the seeds. The edible parts of the…
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