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What’s the healthiest way to prepare vegetables? The way that makes you eat them.
In Carlene Thomas’ experience, two types of people ask her advice as a dietitian about the healthiest way to prepare vegetables. Those looking to improve their diet are curious about how different cooking methods affect nutritional content. Others wonder how best to work more...
Blueberries bring fruity tartness to this streusel-topped German cake
Classic German Streuselkuchen is a lush, fine-crumbed, yeasted cake topped with a remarkably hefty amount of buttery-crisp streusel. It’s the perfect coffee cake for breakfast, brunch or a casual dessert. In this recipe from our cookbook, “ Milk Street Bakes,” we add a pop of...
Charles Phan, chef who elevated Vietnamese cuisine with San Francisco's Slanted Door, dies at 62
Charles Phan, the San Francisco chef credited as an innovator for bringing Vietnamese food to fine dining at his Slanted Door restaurant, has died. The restaurant announced his death from cardiac arrest in an Instagram post on Tuesday, calling it “heartbreaking” and...
A chef lost his dream home in the Palisades Fire. He keeps his spirits up by feeding others
PACIFIC PALISADES, Calif. (AP) — The Pacific Palisades home where chef Daniel Shemtob and his wife dreamed of raising a family is now nothing more than a cratered pit of twisted metal and rubble. Gone are the gourmet kitchen, the nursery with the baby giraffe and elephant wallpaper, the...
This Puerto Rican pork roast boasts tender meat and crackling, crisp skin
Pérnil al caldero is a Puerto Rican staple of succulent slow-cooked pork with shatteringly crisp skin that’s seasoned with adobo, a garlicky, oregano-spiced marinade. The name is a combination of pérnil — a pork roast, usually either the shoulder or ham — and caldero, the dish’s cooking...
The suspected shooter in a North Carolina restaurant where 1 person was killed has also died
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A chef at a restaurant in North Carolina's capital city whom authorities suspect fatally shot a co-worker and then shot himself has died from his injuries, police announced Sunday. George Colom Jr., 34, who was listed as the executive chef at Coquette...
Centuries of fusion predate the marriage of ingredients in this Japanese Italian Wedding Soup
When Sonoko Sakai’s mother snuck a little miso into her lasagna, she wasn’t thinking of the kind of Japanese fusion that became an American dining craze in the 1980s. Rather, she was doing what Japanese cooks had been doing for centuries, adapting to outside influences. Many...
What products contain Red 3 dye? Checking ingredient labels is the best way to find out
The Food and Drug Administration is ordering food and drug makers to remove a dye called Red 3 from the products U.S. consumers eat and drink. The colorant was banned from cosmetics and non-oral medications decades ago because a study showed it caused cancer when eaten by rats. But...
Honey, miso and soy create an umami-rich marinade for rich, meaty salmon
Traybakes are the ultimate in weeknight ease, but they often suffer from unexciting flavors and a lack of textural contrast. For a dinner that’s anything but lackluster, we lean on a trio of high-impact ingredients and add the vegetable and fish in stages, so everything comes out of the oven...
Doctors worry that iodine deficiency — a dietary problem from the past — is coming back
NEW YORK (AP) — The 13-year-old boy came to the clinic with a rapidly ballooning neck. Doctors were puzzled. Testing ruled out their first suspicion. But further tests pinpointed what they — and the boy — had been missing: iodine. A century ago, iodine...
