Cooking & Food

Winter Squash: Recipes, Techniques, and More

Winter is the perfect time to cook winter squashes — and to treat your body to their antioxidant, anti-inflammatory goodness.

By Karen Olson

Cooking & Food

Show Me How: How to Poach an Egg With Betsy Nelson (Video)

Chef and food stylist Betsy Nelson, of ThatFoodGirl.com, shares her tips for poaching an egg.

By Experience Life Staff

Cooking & Food

Egg Essentials: Recipes, Techniques, and More

Simple, wholesome and healthy, eggs are easy to prepare with panache.

By Karen Olson

Cooking & Food

Dress Up Your Salad: 12 Homemade Salad Dressings

Twelve easy and healthy salad dressings you can make at home.

By the Experience Life Team

Cooking & Food

Healthy-Brain Food

The foods you eat can have a major effect on your brain’s health.

By Michael Gelb

Brain Health Cooking & Food

Autumn Plenty

In the fall, farmers’ markets are full of “root-cellar” produce you can roast all winter.

By Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl

Cooking & Food

Different types of vegan milk in bottles with ingredients and green leaves on wooden table

7 Alternative Milks to Try

Made from rice, soy, coconut, almonds and more, alternatives to cow's milk abound. Here's how to make sense of your options.

By Matthew Kadey

Cooking & Food Nutrition Tips

Love at First Bite: Strawberries

Simple yet sublime, the innocent strawberry has the power to seduce all of your senses at once.

By Andrew Zimmern

Cooking & Food

Ham on Wry: A Culinary Saga in 4 Acts

The fever dreams of nutrition-minded food writer Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl struggling to digest her family’s food history.

By Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl

Cooking & Food

The Health Benefits of Raspberries: Recipes, Kitchen Tips, and More

Raspberries delight the senses and serve up an impressive dose of antioxidants. Here are recipes and preparation techniques for making the most of this summer’s harvest.

By Karen Olson

Cooking & Food

Cooking With Spinach: Recipes, Techniques, and More

A dark leafy green, spinach packs an impressive nutritional punch.

By Karen Olson

Cooking & Food

Smart Juicing: Preparation Techniques + 4 Recipes

Trying to eat more veggies and fruits? Here’s what the experts, including The Juice Lady, Cherie Calbom, MS, say about the pros and cons of juicing.

By Experience Life Staff

Cooking & Food

The Splendid Stalk: Asparagus

With its elegant, slender shape and delectable flavor, asparagus has stolen many a food lover's heart. But can it appeal to your kid's picky palate?

By Andrew Zimmern

Cooking & Food

A spread of fresh garden carrots as well as carrots prepared a few different ways.

6 Creative Carrot Recipes

Delicate and flavorful, freshly grown carrots are full of nutritional surprises — and are quite different from their supermarket cousins.

By Karen Olson

Cooking & Food

Take-Charge Cooking for Too-Busy Cooks

When cooking from scratch seems out of reach, do the next best thing. Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl explains how.

By Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl

Cooking & Food

The Health Benefits of Parsley and How to Eat More

Long regarded as a ho-hum herb, parsley has finally arrived.

By Karen Olson

Cooking & Food

How to Eat More Mushrooms: 4 Creative Recipes

Rich and meaty, mushrooms are an easy way to add earthy flavor and nutrition to your meals.

By Karen Olson

Cooking & Food

The Iron Age

TV shows like Iron Chef make cooking a simple meal an action-packed, adrenaline-pumping adventure. They’ve also made many viewers too intimidated to cook at home.

By Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl

Cooking & Food