By Kathryn Reed TRUCKEE – Cheese is more than a food to Laura Werlin – it’s a passion, almost an obsession. After all, her sixth book on the subject will be released in early December. Lake Tahoe News caught up with the energetic author of all things cheese earlier this month before she gave a […]
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By Karen E. Klein, Bloomberg Kristen Farrar would like to sell the cakes, scones and muffins she bakes, using figs, walnuts and citrus from farms near her home in Fresno. But the homeschooling mom of two can’t afford to rent commercial kitchen space or pay the $50,000 she estimates it would take to turn a […]
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By Allison Aubrey, NPR Yes, we love salt. It makes everything taste better. But as a society, we’re eating way too much of it. And, so are our children. A study from researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that children in the U.S. between the ages of 8 and 18 are […]
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By Kathryn Reed I’m not sure if I could ever get tired of pizza. It’s one of those foods where there are so many toppings, sauces and crust combos available that you would never have to have the same one twice. But there is one we have with regularity in our household. It’s Sue’s pesto-spinach […]
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Local art student Matt Kauffmann’s entry in the 42nd annual An Evening of Food and Wine Tasting poster contest will be featured on all promotional material. It features a surreal blue-violet scene with a moon sliver as the bowl of a wine glass over Lake Tahoe. Kauffmann, who will receive his BFA from Sierra Nevada […]
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By Alice Park, Time Nearly 1.5 billion tons. That’s how much spoiled and uneaten food people around the world throw out each year. In the U.S., roughly 40 percent of the food supply is wasted, according to the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). But that kind of trash could soon become a lot more useful. […]
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By Patti Neighmond, NPR If you’re dieting, you know you’ve got to count calories, carbs and fats. But if you really want to take off the weight and keep it off, you might want to pay more attention to the glycemic index, which is essentially a measure of how quickly foods are digested. That’s because […]
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Bob Fleischer is going to the Sept. 13 Cocktail Contest put on by the Barton Health Foundation. This was his winning entry, “A long time ago I did some experimenting with vodka drinks for two huge punch bowls at a family affair. It was a toss-up as to which was better,of the two recipes I […]
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By April Fulton, NPR McDonald’s, home of the iconic Big Mac, is going vegetarian. Well, at least in India, where 20 to 42 percent or more of the population (depending on how you count) eschews meat, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization. According to AFP, McDonald’s will open its first vegetarian-only location next year […]
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By My Health News Daily If your job is a literal pain in the neck, drinking coffee may help, a study from Norway says. People who drank coffee before sitting down to work at a computer for 90 minutes reported less pain in their necks and shoulders than those who didn’t drink coffee, according to […]
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