Inmates in El Dorado County jail in South Lake Tahoe entered 18 culinary categories in this year’s county fair and took home 17 awards. Since 2007, inmates have entered their goods into the El Dorado County Fair. They received 10 first place and seven second place ribbons. The purpose of the program is to teach […]
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Slow Food Lake Tahoe is putting on a canning clinic in Truckee on Aug. 8 from 10am-2pm. The clinic will cover the basics of water bath canning, which is suitable for preserving all sorts of foods, including pickles, jams and tomato sauce. The clinic will also be touching on additional options of preservation with pressure canning. […]
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By Sindya N. Bhanoo, New York Times Farming may have originated 23,000 years ago, thousands of years earlier than previously thought, according to a new study. Researchers discovered a large number of seeds at an ancient hunter-gatherer site known as Ohalo II on the shore of the Sea of Galilee in Israel. Many of the […]
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By Leigh Weingus, Huffington Post Your major coffee habit may help reduce your risk of developing Type 2 diabetes, according to a study. Researchers found that habitual coffee drinkers — meaning those who had more than 1.5 cups per day — were half as likely to develop Type 2 diabetes over a 10-year period as casual […]
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By Margot Sanger-Katz, New York Times After decades of worsening diets and sharp increases in obesity, Americans’ eating habits have begun changing for the better. Calories consumed daily by the typical American adult, which peaked around 2003, are in the midst of their first sustained decline since federal statistics began to track the subject, more […]
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By Allison Aubrey, NPR Sixty-five grams of added sugar. That’s how much you’ll find in a 20-ounce bottle of Coca-Cola. But can you picture 65 grams? It’s about 16 teaspoons worth of the sweet stuff. The Food and Drug Administration wants to make it easier for Americans to track how much added sugars we’re getting […]
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By Jon Verive, Los Angeles Times A new bill signed into law by California Gov. Jerry Brown will let you sample beer before you buy it at your local farmers market. The bill amends an October law that allowed local breweries to sell beer at farmers markets. When the new law goes into effect in […]
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Sugar Bowl Resort kicks off its summer Lake Mary Cabin Dinner Series on July 19. Sugar Bowl and chef Alan Davis will host 12 dinners throughout the summer. Dinner dates and nonprofit partners are: July 19: Truckee Donner Land Trust July 25: Excellence in Education July 26: Donner Summit Historical Society July 31: Humane Society of Truckee-Tahoe […]
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The Food Bank of El Dorado County will be in South Lake Tahoe to host a free farmers market and mobile good pantry on July 22 from 10-11am at the American Legion Hall, 2748 Lake Tahoe Blvd. The Food Bank will provide one allocation per household. Income guidelines are online. For more information on how to give […]
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By Jim Shahin, Washington Post Internet videos and cookbook recipes make grilling corn seem as easy as basic arithmetic. Cob on the fire + cob off the fire = classic summer bite. But the ear of corn I was holding might as well have been a calculus problem. Why? Because after studying those videos and […]
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