In teaching a cooking class recently, I asked the students, all adults, to fill out a questionnaire for me.It was:  Today for breakfast I ate.This gives you a sense of how much people know about nutrition by what they hear or read.  Cereals promote protein...

Some time ago, when I was studying at Boston College, I realized that if I was going to be able to go to work, and then to college at night, I had to eat a good diet. I had been to cooking school, and I knew how to cook, but time was the problem now.  In...

Some people do not eat breakfast.  They get very hungry mid-morning, and reach for that next cup of coffee.  In the early afternoon, same thing happens so they get a large latte. Meals like an aspirin should be equal throughout the day.  Your body needs...

Where did Leven bread originate?Some form of flatbread (made from cooking consisting of flour and water) is thought to have originated much earlier. The Egyptians didn't know about yeast. Egyptian bakers did know that a similar process was at work in both...

Eating for your Health: Every January, we think of our eating habits. Some of us have to think seriously about it due to illness such as cancer or diabetes. Learning about your own lifestyle, diet and exercise lets you understand how all these affect your...Read...

When I attended classes at Modern Gourmet in Newton, Massachusetts, my teacher, Madeleine Kamman, was teaching classic techniques that could be applied to everyday meals, as well as grand French dinners. The best part about learning techniques such as slicing,...Read...

You can’t write about eggs without mentioning the chicken, hence “The Chicken and the Egg”. I hope you agree. I grew up in the country and we had chickens, in fact everyone had chickens, and they roamed free. Today, eggs mostly come from chickens that are in...