Waste Not, Want Not: Saving Food on Thanksgiving

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There are consequences to our national habit of sending food to landfills. American food waste has significant environmental, economic, and cultural ramifications. On average, Americans waste 40 percent of our food supply, which is more than 1400 calories of food per person per day, reports a new study by a team of National Institute of [...]

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Raw Eggplant Ravioli

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Eggplants are ready for harvest in the garden, and they are making their appearance in my CSA box too. Eggplants are beautiful, relatively easy vegetables to grow and delicious, diversely nutritious vegetables to eat. 

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Minimal-Mercury Marinated Tuna

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Because of emissions from power plants and garbage incinerators, tuna absorbs significant amounts of methylmercury, a form of mercury that concentrates in the fatty tissues of big fish and humans.

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Got a Beef with Beef? Try Traditional Tartare!

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Many people give animal foods a bad rap, blaming them for cancer, heart disease and a host of other health problems. But humans have been eating mostly animal products for our entire existence. In fact, the healthiest and longest-lived peoples on our planet, the Okinawans (Japan), Maasai (Kenya and Tanzania) and Hunzakuts (Pakistan) eat traditional [...]

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