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Is Life Too Convenient? Have We Overdone It?

5-New Kitchen Thinking, Opinion and Editorial

“Life for Rent”  That’s the title of a a recent article on co-living, a new form of shared rental housing that includes amenities like changing the sheets and towels, house cleaning and even topping off the toiletries. In addition, these rentals...

Best Practice Secrets of Good Every Day Cooks

1-Healthy Eating Clarity, 6 Healthy Cooking Building Blocks, 7-Recipes--Healthy and Tasty, Healthy Pantry Know-How, Local and Sustainable Eating, New Ingredients, Uncategorized

What Good Everyday Cooks Know that Struggling Cooks Don’t For a recent magazine article, Martha Stewart was asked how often she orders take out.  Her response was something like a couple times over the last 15 years. How many people are in the “0-5”...

Is it OK to use the garlic and ginger that comes in jars?

Food, Healthy Pantry Know-How, Herbs & Spices

Those little jars of prepared garlic and ginger are so completely convenient!  No fussing with paper-thin garlic peels, no paring gnarly knobs of ginger or endangering fingers on the ginger grater and no garlic-smelling hands for the rest of the night.  But is it OK...

Convenience Foods Are Costly, But Can You Make Dinner without Them?

6 Healthy Cooking Building Blocks, 7-Recipes--Healthy and Tasty, How to Be "Marketing-Wise", Money Saving Tips and Tricks

My last grocery bill got me thinking. There was a $2.49 line item for a box of instant brown rice. (I always keep a box on hand in case I forget or am unable to make my weekly pot of rice.) Putting it away, it was such a lightweight, especially compared to the bulk...

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