It’s mid-February. Carnival fun has come and gone. So has the Super Bowl. The weather has warmed and spring is approaching, past the mid-point between winter solstice and spring. It’s time for Valentine’s Day — the day to share love with cards, flowers and chocolates. Yes, it is a ...

It’s time for Carnival! Snowflakes dance outside, the Ice Palace is up despite the unusually warm winter, and there are many fun-filled outdoor and indoor events. Creepy, spooky things are generally associated with Halloween — not winter. Creepy worms and bugs are not around this time ...

Winter is soup weather — and January is National Soup Month. What is soup? It is a liquid, either brothy or creamy. It is prepared by simmering ingredients — vegetables, sometimes grains, beans, meat or fish — together with herbs and spices. Ever since people learned to make clay ...

A plant-based diet has four cornerstones: Vegetables, fruit, whole grains and legumes. I have featured lentils and buckwheat in my last two columns. Now it’s time for veggies — and one of the local veggies still available in winter is cabbage. Most Americans know cabbage from the St. ...

I began 2024 by writing about a plant-based diet to help achieve a healthier lifestyle. That means eating less meat and more whole grains, legumes, vegetables and fruits. Last week I wrote about lentils, a legume many Americans are unfamiliar with. This weak is about a little-known grain: ...

So last week I wrote about achieving a healthier lifestyle through a plant-based diet. That means eating more vegetables, fruits, legumes, and whole grains, and less meat. Then someone I met at the store suggested lentils. It is an Italian custom to begin the New Year with lentils, which ...