Sunday, March 19, 2023

Food Intolerance/Allergy and the Allium Family

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  Food intolerance is an adverse reaction to a particular food that does not involve the immune system (unlike food allergy), often develops...
Sunday, November 06, 2022

Restaurant Review: Mara

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Mara is the new fine-dining restaurant at the Four Seasons in Minneapolis run by the ubiquitous Gavin Kaysen that opened in the summer of 20...
Sunday, May 17, 2020

Cooking During Pandemic 2: Couscous with Vegetables

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Couscous with Vegetables  (serves 4) I usually find plain couscous to be dry and uninteresting. This version which is a little closer to t...

Cooking During Pandemic 1: Tomato Sauce

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Best Tomato Sauce (4-6 servings) This recipe is a modification of one originally published by Marcella Hazan and produces one of the best...
Sunday, June 14, 2015

Wrongly Convicted: High-Fructose Corn Syrup

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The use of high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) has become the punching bag of those who are legitimately concerned about the ubiquitous practi...
Saturday, April 18, 2015

No Free Lunch: the Story of Non-Caloric Artificial Sweetners

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Non-caloric artificial sweeteners (NAS) are sugar substitutes used to give sweetness to food and drinks without the inconvenient calories; ...
Wednesday, April 01, 2015

Emulsifiers in processed food and your health

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A recently published paper in the journal Nature (1) suggests that the emulsifiers added to many processed foods can lead to inflammation of...
Monday, June 25, 2012

Review of Citronelle, Washington DC

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I have dined Citronelle on several occasions over the past ten years and have enjoyed both the food and the quiet ambience. I visited the re...