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

a young woman prepares to eat an oyster while holding a glass of wine

Happiness on the Half Shell: Oysters

As exotic appetizers for a celebratory repast, or the centerpiece for an aphrodisiac feast, oysters offer a bonanza of unexpected health benefits.

By Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl

Cooking & Food Food Culture

4 Creative Cauliflower Recipes

Don’t let this understated vegetable fool you. It’s bursting with culinary potential and nutritional oomph.

By Karen Olson

Cooking & Food

Sweet Potatoes: Recipes, Techniques, and More

Packed with flavor and phytonutrients, sweet potatoes are a holiday treat that deserve to be served more often.

By Karen Olson

Cooking & Food

Investing in Stocks

Homemade stocks are not a vestige of a bygone era or the exclusive territory of professional chefs. They’re a healthy, thrifty, practical tradition — and a great way to make the most of stuff that might otherwise go bad in your fridge.

By Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl

Cooking & Food

How to Cook a Heritage Turkey

There’s real beauty in choosing a free-range heritage turkey. You’ll get richer flavor, better nutrition — and the satisfaction of supporting a rare breed of poultry farmer, too.

By Karen Olson

Cooking & Food

How to Eat More Garlic: Recipes, Techniques, and More

For centuries it’s been worshiped for its protective powers and its culinary potential. To fully appreciate garlic’s appeal, make it a part of your everyday cooking.

By Karen Olson

Cooking & Food

For the Love of Heirloom Tomatoes: Recipes, Techniques, and More

Vine-ripened, oddly shaped, and packed with flavor: There’s nothing like an heirloom tomato. We asked farmer Gary Ibsen, who’s been growing and selling these beauties for almost 40 years, for a personal introduction.

By Experience Life Staff

Cooking & Food

Transform Your Health With Live Foods

The biggest problem with the average American diet is not just how much we eat, it's the percentage of our diet that's made up of cooked and over-processed foods. Find out how eating live can help you live healthier, happier, and longer.

By Experience Life Staff

Cooking & Food Mindful Eating

Eating by the Rainbow

It is so easy to stick to what you know and choose convenience foods or the same foods every time you go to the store. Get out of that rut by accepting a new challenge; eating by the rainbow.

By Experience Life Staff

Cooking & Food Nutrition Tips

Cooking With Hot Peppers: Recipes, Techniques, and More

Celebrate summer with spicy jalapeño peppers. These versatile chilies wake up your taste buds — and fight inflammation, too.

By Cary Neff

Cooking & Food

A fresh coconut and a glass beaker full of oil are pictured.

Fats and Oils, Demystified

Anjula Razdan's tips on learning more about fats and oils.

By Anjula Razdan

Cooking & Food Nutrition Tips

How to Use Tempeh: 4 Creative Recipes, Techniques, and More

Healthier than tofu, tempeh is a great source of plant-based protein. Try these tasty soybean cakes as a meat alternative or as a nutritious addition to dishes of all kinds.

By Cary Neff

Cooking & Food

The Health Benefits of Celery and How to Eat More

There's a lot more culinary life in celery than the diet crowd lets on. And research shows it can help prevent memory loss, lower blood pressure and may even inhibit cancer.

By Cary Neff

Cooking & Food Immunity