Cooking & Food

5 Refreshing Drinks Perfect for Summer Sipping

Add flavor and fun to your beverage rotation this season with these make-at-home options.

By Molly Kopischke

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How to Find Sustainable Seafood

Fish offers a host of health benefits, but pollution, overfishing, and human-rights abuses have muddied the waters. Learn how to make more sustainable choices.

By Heidi Wachter

Cooking & Food Food Culture

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13 Global Condiments to Use

Explore an array of international condiments and sauces — and get ideas for experimenting with them in your next meal.

By Camille Berry

Cooking & Food Food Culture

8 Food Safety Myths

How cautious do we need to be in the kitchen? Our experts share tips for safe food handling, prep, and storage.

By Stephanie Soucheray

Cooking & Food Home/Living

How to Get Your Kids in the Kitchen

It’s never too early — or too late — to introduce your kids to the life skills learned in the kitchen.

By Jill Patton, NBC-HWC

Cooking & Food Family/Parenting/Kids

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5 Kid-Friendly Cooking Tools

Welcome kiddos into the kitchen with these tools, including scaled-down baking sheets and serrated safety knives.

By Experience Life Staff

Cooking & Food Home/Living

How to Buy, Store, and Use Eggplant

Get inspired to use more of this nightshade in your home kitchen.

By Kaelyn Riley

Cooking & Food

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7 Superfoods to Try Now

Superfoods get a lot of attention for their nutritional potency — some justified, some overstated. These seven power foods are actually worth the hype.

By Christine Schrum

Cooking & Food

4 Ways to Use an Overripe Avocado

Don't toss that precious fruit! Discover four ways to use an avocado that seems past its prime.

By Courtney Lewis Opdahl

Cooking & Food

6 Delicious Dips

Dunk sliced raw veggies or your favorite crackers into one of these healthy dips. Bonus: We even have a dessert dip!

By Robin Asbell

Cooking & Food

7 Tips for Eating a Raw-Foods Diet

Thinking about trying a raw-foods diet? These tips, including easing into raw foods and eating warming spices, might help ward off digestive distress.

By Catherine Guthrie

Cooking & Food