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 ...

2024 has arrived, soggy and wet. It’s Jan. 2 — the ninth Day of Christmas. Gray, scary changing Rapidly warming climate Darkness holds secrets. Fortunately, the darkest days are behind us. We look forward to more light ahead. As light increases and darkness fades, many reflect ...

It is still Christmas! The shopping is over, the stockings are hung, gifts have been exchanged. Houses and halls have been decked out for the festive season. You had your special Christmas Eve and Christmas Day feast fare — whatever your family tradition. But the celebrations are not ...