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The Kid’s Menu: Cutting Corners

If you’re strapped for time (I’m looking at you, new parents), do yourself a favor by not doing these five things when you cook.
05.07.09
food politics

Egg Economics

Perhaps some things in life shouldn’t be cheaper by the dozen. A North Carolina chef takes a look at the real cost of food—and flavor.
04.09.09
food + cooking

The Kid’s Menu: Solid Foods, Fluid Rules

Introducing a baby to solids for the first time requires a whole new level of flexibility.
04.08.09
food + cooking

The Home Cook: Quinoa, The Better Couscous

Serve this ancient staple wherever you’d use couscous, and you’ll get a meal with more protein and fiber than semolina could provide.
04.07.09
food politics

Rethinking School Vending Machines

A whole new approach is the subject of the third Senate hearing on school nutrition re-authorization.
04.06.09
food + cooking

Vegetarian Butchers?

Across the U.S., people who once shunned meat are helping push the livestock industry in a more sustainable direction.
04.02.09
food politics

Red Meat and Mortality

A major new study links consumption of red meat to premature death. But is beef really to blame?
03.27.09
food + cooking

This Spring’s Specialty Cookbooks

A whole crop of new cookbooks focuses on dietary restrictions and food allergies. Here are two worth checking out, even if you can eat whatever you want.
03.27.09
magazine

No Such Thing as a Free Lunch

For generations, the students at Red Cloud Indian School raised their own food—then the federal government got into the act.
April 2009
food politics

Politics of the Plate: More Good News for Food Safety

The USDA finally bans the slaughter of “downer” cows, and two new leaders at the FDA are expected to restore the agency’s tarnished reputation.
03.17.09
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