By Danielle Nierenberg, Barbara Gemmill-Herren, Benjamin Graub and Caterina Batello, Huffington Post On Thanksgiving we express gratitude for the abundance on our holiday tables, but rarely do we thank the people who grew, harvested, and processed that food. But a very diverse group of family farmers around the world, and at home, deserve our support […]
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Cooking fires continue to be the most common type of fires experienced by U.S. households. This is even more apparent during the holidays – especially on Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Tahoe Douglas Fire Protection District officials say these fires are preventable by simply being more attentive to the use of cooking materials and […]
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By Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times Eating nuts may help you live longer — and your best bet for a long life is to munch on them regularly, according to a Harvard University study published Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine. In the largest study of its kind, funded by the U.S. International […]
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By Barb Tenney With so many dishes on the table, it can be challenging to find the perfect wines to pair with Thanksgiving dinner. And with only five days until the big meal, now is the time to figure out what you will be drinking. Since the only turkey on the table should be the […]
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By Heidi Mitchell, Wall Street Journal Over the holidays, Americans will undoubtedly overindulge, gulping down their first plateful and racing back for seconds. But is there an optimal way to masticate? One expert, Klaus Bielefeldt, director of the Neurogastroenterology & Motility Center at the University of Pittsburgh, chews on the subject. Digestion starts in the […]
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By Kathryn Reed So many recipes that sound good to me come with meat. Such is the case with the one below. But it’s also one of the easier ones to eliminate the meat. Recipes like this are ideal for when there are meat and non-meat eaters at the table. Just put the chicken on […]
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By Andrea Petersen, Wall Street Journal When you’re in your 40s, it’s pretty common to need reading glasses. You might need smaller wine glasses, too. That’s because alcohol hits people harder in their 40s and 50s than it did during their 20s and 30s. The reasons for this include changes in body composition to brain […]
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California has been doing a restaurant week in January for a handful of years and the South Shore is going to participate in 2014 for the first time. Tahoe South Restaurant Week will be Jan. 10-17. Restaurants wanting to know more about this event are asked to attend an informational meeting Nov. 20 at 4:30pm […]
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By Allison Aubrey, NPR If you go back to the 1970s, people with a serious coffee habit often had an accompanying habit: smoking. And that’s why early studies gave coffee a bad rap. Clearly, smoking was harmful. And it was hard for researchers to disentangle the two habits. “So it made coffee look bad in […]
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By Katie Little, CNBC Finally, some good news for consumers to chew on: That Thanksgiving feast will be a little less expensive. The average cost of this year’s holiday dinner for 10 eased down 0.9 percent to $49.04 from $49.48 last year, according to a survey from the American Farm Bureau Federation released on Thursday. […]
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