RECIPE: Rio Star Fiesta Salad

Winter is citrus season. Grapefruit and oranges make delicious and healthy salads, and red grapefruit adds to the drama of the presentation. There’s a reduced-calorie dressing and a healthy garnish of pomegranate seeds, pumpkinseed kernels and cilantro. The Rio Star grapefruit is a very red, sweet variety that is 10 times redder than the original…
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Recipe: Barack Obama’s Tuna Salad

What to eat while you’re watching the inauguration? Presidential tuna salad! When President-elect Barack Obama made tuna salad with his family on “60 Minutes” earlier this year, he used this recipe, specifying troll-caught albacore (more about that below): Presidential Tuna Salad Sandwiches Ingredients – Two 6-ounce cans of U.S. troll-caught albacore – 2 tablespoons of…
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BOOK: Great Chefs Cook Vegan

How popular is veganism? Popular enough to have inspired a gorgeous new cookbook, Great Chefs Cook Vegan, by Linda Long, with recipes by 25 of today’s most lauded chefs, including Dan Barber, David Burke, Cat Cora, Daniel Boulud, Todd English, Suzanne Goin, Thomas Keller, Gabriel Kreuther, Eric Ripert, Marcus Samuelsson, Charlie Trotter and Jean-George Vongerichten.…
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RECIPE: Low-Calorie Creamy Dip & Dressing

A dip or dressing with half the calories tastes just as good—maybe even better! Top photo courtesy Vermont Creamery. Bottom photo courtesy Betty Crocker.   With those New Year’s resolutions that include “lose weight,” substituting mustard for mayonnaise wherever possible is an easy switch. French’s claims that, simply by substituting mustard for mayonnaise on your…
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