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Make Room for Mushrooms
By Karen OlsonRich and meaty, mushrooms are an easy way to add earthy flavor and nutrition to your meals.
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Birds of Paradise: Heritage Turkeys
By Karen OlsonThere’s real beauty in choosing a free-range heritage turkey. You’ll get richer flavor, better nutrition — and the satisfaction of supporting a rare breed of poultry farmer, too.
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Apple Cider and Sea Salt Brine
By Experience Life Community ManagerBrining makes for a moist, flavorful turkey that you won’t need to drown with gravy.
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Dig Into Garlic
By Karen OlsonFor centuries it’s been worshiped for its protective powers and its culinary potential. To fully appreciate garlic’s appeal, make it a part of your everyday cooking.
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Upgrade Your Lunch
By the Experience Life TeamWe gave three food-savvy nutritionists a challenge: Take three predictable lunches and turn them into healthy, energizing meals.
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Got Enough Gadgets?
By Dara Moskowitz GrumdahlWhen future archaeologists undearth the relics of today's modern kitchen conveniences, what will their discoveries tell them Perhaps that we were too lazy to scramble an egg or shake our own salt.
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Cooking With Hot Peppers
By Cary NeffCelebrate summer with spicy jalapeño peppers. These versatile chilies wake up your taste buds — and fight inflammation, too.
The Complete Chile Pepper Book
By Dave DeWitt and Paul BoslandThis chile reference guide profiles 100 varieties; gives information about growing, storing, handling and cooking; and culminates with 85 fiery recipes.
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Frozen Future
By Dara Moskowitz GrumdahlAn inconvenient truth: Our relationship with processed convenience foods is on a troubling trajectory.
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Natural Wonder: Tempeh
By Cary NeffHealthier than tofu, tempeh is a great source of plant-based protein. Try these tasty soybean cakes as a meat alternative or as a nutritious addition to dishes of all kinds.
Crazy Sexy Diet
By Experience Life Community ManagerHardly a “diet” in the conventional sense, Kris Carr’s best-selling Crazy Sexy Diet (Skirt! 2011) is really a life-affirming strategy for intense well-being.
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Stalk Options: Celery
By Cary NeffThere's a lot more culinary life in celery than the diet crowd lets on. And research shows it can help prevent memory loss, lower blood pressure and may even inhibit cancer.
The Food Matters Cookbook by Mark Bittman
By Experience Life Community ManagerThe follow-up to Bittman's sustainability-focused 2008 title, Food Matters .
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3 Simple Shifts
By Catherine GuthrieLooking for low-effort ways to eat healthier? These three small adjustments can make a surprisingly big difference in how you look and feel.
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Luscious Lentils
By Cary NeffOne of the world's healthiest foods, these fiber-rich legumes add hearty flavor to everything from salads to veggie burgers.
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Ready for Action
By Kristin OhlsonWith our help, three brave readers tackled some healthy goals they'd been putting off for a while. Are their stories your story, too?
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Reality’s Bites
By Dara Moskowitz GrumdahlMy humble, home-cooked meals are not the stuff of Food Channel fantasy. But they sure beat eating a bag of pretzels for dinner.
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“Ready for Action” Update
By Kristin OhlsonExperience Life checks in on the progress of our Healthy Challenge participants.
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Grass-Fed Goodness: Beef
By Cary NeffHigh in antioxidants, essential fatty acids, vitamins and minerals, meat from pasture-fed cattle is a nourishing delicacy.
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About Us (Video)
By Experience Life StaffFind out why our readers consistently turn to us for health and fitness information.
Marvelous Millet
By Cary NeffThese splendid little seeds are rich in protein, vitamins and minerals — and they’re versatile, too.