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Close Pictured recipe:Vegan Butternut Squash Soup Ever wonder ‘is soup healthy’ when considering your lunch options. Turns out soup is good for the soul-and the rest of you too. Here are four healthy reasons to eat more soup. Soup Adds Vitamins and Minerals Pictured recipe:Veggistrone Do you have a souper diet? (See what we did there?) The answer is probably “yes” if you’re a soup‐eater. Looking at the diets of 10,500 Americans, Iowa State University researchers found that people who ate soup had higher diet‐quality scores than people who didn’t....

ClosePhoto:Getty ImagesI don’t believe in “soup season.”There is no time of year, hot or not, that can deny the ecstasy that a good, soul-healing bowl of soup delivers. But I’m a simple man—easy to please. A purplish-brown cup ofFrench onionwith jammy alliums, a sodden raft of crusty bread and gooey Gruyère on an oppressively overcast day? Twist my arm. A giant bowl of clean and anise-y chicken pho with some aromatic Vietnamese coriander, bird’s-eye chile rounds and a juicy wedge of lime?...

Close Featured Recipe:Grilled Corn Salad with Chili-Miso Dressing What you do on a daily basis-how you live, what you drive and what you buy-can make a difference in the environment around you. It’s no surprise that a message stressing the importance of reducing your carbon footprint is spreading, and more people are looking for easier ways to be less destructive to the Earth. Try This:7-Day Vegan Meal Plan: 1,200 Calories...

Close Pictured Recipe:Colorful Roasted Sheet-Pan Vegetables Once limited to high-end ranges, convection functions are now built in to most new ovens. I use convection almost exclusively at home, because it cooks faster and more evenly than regular settings. Here’s why: It has a built-in fan that helps heat the oven faster, eliminates hot spots and enables even cooking on all racks. No more fussing with rotating pans! Plus, ovens with convection also have a vent that draws out excess steam....

“Habari Gani?” “Kwanzaa!” “What’s up?” “Kwanzaa!!” It’s that time of year again when the kinara is placed on the centerpiece and lit with seven black, red and green candles. The ears of corn sit atop the mat symbolizing the children in the house, while the centerpiece basket overflowing with fruit symbolizes the abundance of the harvest. Libation is poured into the Chalice of Unity and offered to guests. Gifts, usually homemade or purchased from Black-owned shops, are exchanged....

When I first learned about the ketogenic diet over 10 years ago—in a clinical setting, as a way to help kids with epileptic seizures—I would have never (like, never ever) guessed it would become one of the top weight-loss diets. But here we are, in 2020, and the keto craze rages on. In case you are unaware, the ketogenic diet is an ultra high-fat, low-carb style of eating. No foods are off limits, but you’re supposed to keep your carbs under 5 percent of your total calories for the day or around 20 grams depending on your energy needs....

Close Photo: Ali Redmond Thetypical Mediterranean diet foods—fish, nuts, plant oils, fruits and vegetables—help lower inflammation in your body, improve blood vessel function and reduce the risk of metabolic syndrome and diabetes. All of these benefits serve to keep your ticker ticking and your mind sharp. Decades of research bears this out, too. What is the Mediterranean Diet? This way of eating focuses on foods like olive oil, nuts, fruits and vegetables, legumes, whole grains and fish....

In This ArticleView AllIn This ArticleThe Golden TicketAn Idea BlossomsSustaining Small FarmsCreating a MarketThings to Consider When Buying Saffron In This ArticleView All View All In This Article The Golden Ticket An Idea Blossoms Sustaining Small Farms Creating a Market Things to Consider When Buying Saffron Bundled against the cold, Claudel “Zaka” Chery and Jette Mandl-Abramson walk the field, plucking the blossoms into baskets and stopping now and then to blow on their bare hands....

The drive through Triple J Farms outside St. Louis, Missouri, is pretty much what you’d expect. A long gravel road winds past fields of soybeans and an occasional Caterpillar construction vehicle in an expansive meadow, before arriving at a red, metal-sided barn. But inside, instead of being filled with typical barn accouterments like tractors, work boots and shovels, it’s filled with, well, shrimp. The operation is about as under the radar as it gets....

I ate the same seven meals on rotation growing up. It was a system my mom kept for a long while, makingweeknight dinnersduring the busy school year easier for her after volunteering, PTA and booster meetings, church committees … you get it. I still remember those meals clearly—breaded chicken with boxed Alfredo and peas, meatballs and garlic bread, taco pie. After eating these meals week in and week out, I—as the ungrateful child I was—felt very sick of having to dig into the same foods over and over again....

Close Photo: Amazon / Lucky Charms A few weeks ago I posted a pictureon Instagramof me holding a box of Lucky Charms cereal. The caption had nothing to do with the frosted toasted oat and marshmallow cereal—and, in fact, it wasn’t even about breakfast. But a good friend (and mom to two littles) commented, “Wait, Lucky Charms? Is this mom-approved?” I’m here to tell you that it is. Lucky Charms has some legitimate (redeeming) nutrition qualities....

You may have heard that turmeric is loaded with health benefits and that you can use turmeric for inflammation. And it’s true: the spice is getting a reputation as a nutrition powerhouse, potentially protecting against Alzheimer’s disease, cancer, arthritis and depression. You may know turmeric best as the spice in many curry dishes, lending warm and peppery notes and golden color. Although it has been around for thousands of years, turmeric has recently surged in popularity and might just be one of the hottest nutrition trends-you can now find turmeric teas, golden milk, turmeric shots and more....

In This ArticleView AllIn This ArticleButternut SquashButtercup SquashHoneynut SquashAcorn SquashSpaghetti SquashSweet Dumpling SquashKabocha SquashDelicata SquashPumpkin In This ArticleView All View All In This Article Butternut Squash Buttercup Squash Honeynut Squash Acorn Squash Spaghetti Squash Sweet Dumpling Squash Kabocha Squash Delicata Squash Pumpkin Close While everything pumpkin and pumpkin spice may rule fall menus, there are many other delicious, nutrient-dense winter squash varieties to choose from come harvest time. Compared tosummer squash—like zucchiniand yellow squash—winter squash varieties tend to have slightly more hearty and flavorful flesh and larger seeds—often used for roasting....