How to make vegetables and fruit taste better

Trying to eat more fruit and vegetables is on most people’s to-do list these days.  In fact, I’d be willing to bet that many of you even made this one of your New Year’s Resolutions (you didn’t, did you?).  You probably don’t need me to tell you all the reasons why a diet that includes a rainbow of produce is good for you! If that’s the case then, just like...
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Do you get it?

Ali does.  She sent me this picture the other day, because she knew that I would love it, and she’s right!  Can’t you just feel the vibrant green crunch of those cucumbers?  And don’t they look so beautiful, all jumbled together, with the perfect bright accent of the hot red peppers?  She took this picture when she was helping her dad make pickles.  Those aren’t just...
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Old advice is good advice

Posted by Janet Nezon on May 4, 2011 “An apple a day keeps the doctor away” How many times have you heard that one and rolled your eyes, thinking “if only it was that easy to be healthy?”   Well, some new research is giving us more reasons to heed that  age-old, simple advice. A new study from Florida State University has provided compelling evidence to confirm that...
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