By Pip Taylor, Competitor Network Many athletes choose to live and train at high altitude with the particular goal of increasing endurance performance. While the merits of altitude training and the best methods and timing of implementation can be debated, let’s focus on changes in nutritional demands at higher elevations. It is clear that any […]
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By Kathryn Reed Some things are worth waiting for – like a recipe. At a New Year’s Eve party my friend Brenda made quinoa – pronounced keen-wah. Oh, how yummy it was. This grain has been around forever, but seemed to become all the rage in the United States just recently. It is native to […]
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Proper nutrition and human contact have so many positive effects for overall health. In El Dorado County programs are available to ensure these life sustaining necessities. The Senior Nutrition Program offers nutritionally balanced, home style meals in seven community dining centers, as well as home delivered meals for a suggested donation of $3 a meal. […]
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The 26th annual Lake Tahoe Autumn Food and Wine Festival is Sept. 9-11 at the Village at Northstar in Truckee. Back bigger and better than ever, culinary aficionados and hungry travelers will return to the Village at Northstar for chef battles, free outdoor grilling demonstrations, celebrity chef luncheon, gourmet marketplace vendor fair, grape stomp, wine […]
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By Allan Hall, The Telegraph The steady rise in global temperatures is threatening vineyards around Bordeaux that produce some of the most esteemed and expensive wines on earth. Experts say that the region may be unsuitable for wine-growing by 2050, making the supreme wines of chateaux like Lafite, Petrus and Latour nothing but memories. Winegrowers […]
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By Susan Wood PLACERVILLE — El Dorado County wineries represent a gutsy, resilient lot. First, some have found their pricing endured the economic recession. Plus, an aging America hasn’t dampened the spirits of a youth movement interested in wine – with this county being no exception. Now, a wild winter came out in full force […]
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By Kathryn Reed There was a time when I did not like lasagna. I would push it around my plate. Maybe I’d take some bread and dab at the sauce to make it look like I was eating it. Oh my, how things have changed. Now it’s rare I don’t have seconds. I think what […]
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By Kathryn Reed Sometimes I hate to stop doing research for a story. Maybe there will have to be sequels to this story. Friends and I were in search of the best Bloody Mary in the Lake Tahoe Basin. Well, we didn’t get that far. Most of the research was done on the South Shore. […]
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By Ryan Flinn, Bloomberg News The United States passed France as the world’s largest wine-consuming nation for the first time, lifted by its larger population and an interest in wine-and-cheese culture among young Americans. Wine shipments to the United States climbed 2 percent to 329.7 million cases last year, according to Gomberg, Fredrikson & Associates, […]
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“You can grow it, now sell it” is the message of Western Nevada College Specialty Crop Institute’s workshop for small farms. The workshop is April 2, 9am-5pm at the WNC Carson City Campus, 2201 West College Parkway. Cost is $35 if registered by March 23 or $45 if registered after March 23. Lunch is included […]
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