Dishes like chicken unfairly become stamped as pedestrian due to simple over-exposure. This baked chicken graces our table almost every week, to the point of it becoming ho hum at home. But I’m reminded of how good it is if someone happens by in time to catch a whiff...

You can either prevent fires from happening … or you can just wait until you get a good blaze working, and handle it from there. Most people would assume that it is a better strategy to prevent problems from arising in the first place. However, we have a health...

It does not matter whether it is TV or Video or Internet or Gaming. Experts from the U.S. National Institutes of Health analyzed 173 studies done since 1980 in one of the most comprehensive assessments to date on how media exposure impacts the physical health of children and adolescents....

Let’s say you’re Keebler … and you have an Elf. Furthermore, you have to sell cookies, but the current market is anti-fat. This is an incredible dilemma!! You still have to make it taste good, but it can’t have a smidge of butter in it because you are marketing...

One of the biggest dietary changes that has taken hold in our culture — over the past 40 years — is that milk has been replaced by sodas as the kids’ drink of choice. Now, according to new research reported in the Journal of Pediatrics, when you eat dairy...

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!!!! There are so many wonderful things about this day, and I just want to wish everyone the warmest of wishes. And today, of all days, we will most likely be feasting on Turkey. So, let’s look at the nutritional properties of this bird that Ben Franklin...

Before Thanksgiving was a national holiday, it had to be assigned as one, each year, by an act of congress. Can you imagine? While this may seem like a Parlimentary Pain in the Pantaloons (and I’m certain it was), one good aspect about it was that each President —...

There was a lot to be grateful for, in 1782. With the help of France (who loved us because they hated England … the enemy of my enemy is my friend), we won. We beat the unbeatable nation and stood isolated by oceans and united in our determination to...

On June 20, 1676, the governing council of Charlestown, Massachusetts met to decide how best to express thanks for the good fortune that had seen their community securely established. By unanimous vote they instructed Edward Rawson, the clerk, to proclaim June 29 as a day of thanksgiving. That proclamation...