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CloseAmerican Food Hero 2019:Colleen LindholzWho she is: President, Kroger HealthWhat she’s doing:Supporting better grocery choicesWe’ve all been there: standing in the grocery store aisle trying to pick out a box of cereal or choose between seven kinds of blueberry yogurt. You want something relatively healthy, but there are so many options and they all look pretty much the same. You could pore over each nutrition panel and ingredients list or do what most of us do: just grab one and hope for the best....

Close Photo: Passion Ward Not long ago, Padma Lakshmi found herself sitting between two Cuban tíos with drastically different life experiences— and viewpoints—at Monica León’s dining room table in Miami. This, she learned, was not uncommon. The city’s largest, most-visible immigrant community is often painted with a broad brush: conservative, Republican, hard-line. The truth is that even within families, perspectives can be very different. Lakshmi’s Hulu show,Taste the Nation, uses food as the catalyst to reveal the nuanced views within Indigenous and immigrant communities....

Close Photo: Aaron Conway The 60-acre structure is the largest greenhouse in the United States. And Webb says that it has the potential to resolve a plethora of crises facing agriculture today—from farm labor abuses and fertilizer runoff to the impact of climate change and an over-dependence on pesticides, along with environmentally taxing inputs, like water. He hopes that it will also revitalize the local economy. Rowan County, where AppHarvest is based, is on the edge of central Appalachia....

Close Photo:FX FX For fans ofThe Bear, you may be curious on how the food magic happens and what it takes to make your favorite on-screen dish. Lucky for you (and for us!) we just found out how it all goes down. Courtney Storer, the FX show’s culinary producer and founder of anLA-based catering companyCoco’s to Go-Go teamed up withAmazon Devicesto share her expertise and advice this holiday season. Through this partnership, we were given the opportunity to talk to Storer about how she uses smart devices in her own kitchen—plus some curiosity questions aboutThe Bear, of course....

When 11-year-old Fongchong Havighurst first arrived in Nashville from China, she had little use for Craig Havighurst and Taylor Holliday, the couple who had adopted her. She had gone directly from the rural foster family who gave her safe haven—if little affection—for five years, to the urban home of two English-speaking strangers. She was traumatized. “I was too young to understand the idea of adoption or going to live somewhere else,” Fongchong speculates now....

As “competitive athletes our whole lives” attempting to earn college scholarships for basketball,AlexandReana Kaminskywere used to their competitors throwing them some curveballs. Little did they know life would throw many at them during the coronavirus pandemic starting in early 2020, just as they were embarking on their wellness journey.“We were always active growing up and played basketball together, but we were the ones on the team that were usually out of shape or just heavier than everyone else,” says Alex, now 24....

ClosePhoto: EatingWellOne of my fondest memories from my childhood was running errands with my mom and stopping for a chocolate milkshake afterward. It was something I always looked forward to. Until I turned 7 and started dieting for the next 20-some years.I was pointedly made aware of my body being bigger than the other kids when my second-grade teacher made everyone in my class weigh themselves, write our weights on the chalkboard, then stand from the lowest to the highest weight....

Mornings begin quietly on a small communal farm called OtraCosa in Caguas, Puerto Rico. Steep mountains delay the sunrise, providing an extra hour of peace before the day begins. There’s coffee and conversation, then work: tending farm animals, planting, building and repairing structures, foraging and harvesting. Fresh herbs, such as culantro, and field peas, such as gandules, are collected for the communal kitchen, where resident chef Verónica Quiles Maldonado works wonders....

Close Photo: Laylah Amatullah Barrayn Since it was introduced in 1849 during California’s Gold Rush, Chinese food in the U.S. has gotten a nutritional bad rap. Many chefs found they needed to adapt their cooking to better suit the tastes of American customers—swapping out “strange” ingredients, adding more sugar and oil—and the cuisine collected negative stereotypes and a reputation for being unhealthy. Read more:Future of Food This revelation—compounded with a decline in the number of Chinese immigrant chefs, the rise of national chains using unhealthy shortcuts, and a growing public emphasis on wellness—convinced Wang to discontinue his medical career and lead the change he wanted to see in the food world....

We’re smack dab in the middle of cold and flu season. I’m literally typing this with a tickle in the back of my throat. And I’ve heard about a lot of “natural remedies” from people—everything from raw garlic to hot toddies, white grape juice to honey,chicken soupto elderberry. But do any of these foods actually work? There’s no magic pill or food to keep you well, but certain things you do can help....

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Close Photo:Photographer: Rachel Marek, Food stylist: Holly Dreesman, Prop stylist: Gabriel Greco Photographer: Rachel Marek, Food stylist: Holly Dreesman, Prop stylist: Gabriel Greco Active Time:5 minsTotal Time:1 hrServings:8Jump to Nutrition Facts Active Time:5 minsTotal Time:1 hrServings:8 Active Time:5 mins Active Time: 5 mins Total Time:1 hr Total Time: 1 hr Servings:8 Servings: 8 Jump to Nutrition Facts Jump to recipe Whether you’re eating them simply with a sprinkle of salt and pepper, stuffing them withspinach and feta, or loading them up with sour cream, cheese, green onions and more, baked potatoes are a satisfying and versatile meal....

Planning meals every week can feel like a lot of work—even more work if you have diabetes. The good news? The foods recommended for people with diabetes are healthy foods recommended to everyone—adults and kids alike. So you don’t, and I repeat do not, need to cook multiple dinners every night even if not everyone in your family has diabetes. When coming up with meal ideas, use the MyPlate (aka Healthy Eating Plate) as a framework for making your meals....