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Cooking & Food

tea pot and tea cups

How to Cook With Tea

Discover how tea can enhance your cooking — from tenderizing meats to enhancing barbecue sauce, replacing vanilla in your baking, and even creating a zingy martini.
By Susan Pagani
Cooking & Food
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How to Cook With Coffee

Discover how coffee can enhance your cooking — from braising meats to creating robust flavor in your chili and folding into your pastry creams.
By Susan Pagani
Cooking & Food
a person uses beer in their recipe

How to Cook With Beer

Discover how beer can level up your cooking — from tenderizing meats to enhancing sauces, baking, and even sourdough starters.
By Susan Pagani
Cooking & Food
collage of recipes from Life to 100

Live to 100 — One Recipe at a Time

Blue Zones researcher and Netflix’s Live to 100 host Dan Buettner shares recipes from his new book, The Blue Zones Kitchen One Pot Meals: 100 Recipes to Live to 100.
By Dan Buettner
Cooking & FoodFood Culture
pumpkin recipes

4 Fall Recipes Using Canned Pumpkin

Crack open a can of pumpkin and make these sweet and savory fall recipes, including Pumpkin Butter Chicken and Pumpkin Halwa.
By Mish Sen
Cooking & Food
broccoli salad

5 Hearty Mains Featuring Cruciferous Veggies

Cruciferous vegetables like bok choy, broccoli, and cabbage are packed with vitamins, minerals, and phytonutrients. These recipes feature them at the center of your plate.
By Kate Morgan
Cooking & Food
a golden, steaming broth

Level Up Your Cooking With Beer, Tea, Coffee, and Other Flavorful Liquids

Coffee, tea, wine, beer, and even pickle juice can add flavor and complexity to some of your favorite dishes. Here's how.
By Susan Pagani
Cooking & Food
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Environmental Working Group (EWG) Releases 2025 “Dirty Dozen” and “Clean Fifteen” Lists

Here are the most contaminated — and cleanest — fruits and veggies.
By Arielle Patin
Cooking & FoodNutrition Tips
alternative milks

5 Dairy-Free Milks to Try Now

Tired of the same old almond milk? Try these nondairy alternatives made with walnuts, pistachios, pecans, oats — and bananas!
By Experience Life Staff
Cooking & FoodProduct Reviews
bowls of various nuts around a quart of milk

5 Things to Pay Attention to in Dairy-Free Milk

The nondairy milk aisle can be overwhelming. Cut through the confusion with this advice.
By Stephanie Soucheray
Cooking & FoodNutrition Tips
rosemary chicken skewers

5 Recipes That Are Fresh, Flavorful, and Full of Herbs

These nutritious recipes make fresh herbs the star of the show.
By Kate Morgan
Cooking & Food
diy ice cream alternatives

5 Healthy DIY Alternatives to Ice Cream

These refreshing summer desserts don’t require any special equipment — but they’ll give you that ice-cream feeling with whole-foods ingredients.
By Maddie Augustin
Cooking & Food
a plate of salmon and veggies

5 Recipes to Help Fight Candida

These recipes feature plenty of plants, lean protein, gluten-free whole grains, and other ingredients that help fight candida overgrowth.
By Kate Morgan
Cooking & FoodGut Health
glass of blue shake

How 7 LifeCafe Experts Mix-and-Match to Build Their Perfect Shake

Eyeing the create-your-own shake option on the LifeCafe menu? Take inspiration from these team members’ go-to orders.
By Callie Fredrickson
Cooking & FoodMembership
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6 Food Swaps to Try at the Grocery Store

If you’re always buying the same few things at the grocery store, try these swaps.
By Camille Berry
Cooking & FoodMindful Eating
a meal made with mushrooms

4 Vegetarian Recipes That Will Change the Way You See Mushrooms

With their earthy flavor, meaty texture, and wealth of nutritional value, these meatless recipes are sure to satisfy.
By Maddie Augustin
Cooking & Food
chicken on a bed of greens with berries

5 Anti-Inflammatory Recipes

Soothe systemic inflammation with these recipes featuring nutritious foods like fatty fish, cruciferous vegetables, berries, and more.
By Robin Asbell
Cooking & FoodInflammation
heart healthy foods

What Are the Best Heart-Healthy Foods?

Experts share which ingredients they keep in their heart-healthy pantries — and which foods they try to avoid.
By Lauren David
Cooking & FoodHeart & Cardiovascular Health
Garlic-seared steak with asparagus on a plate next to a bowl with a side salad and smaller bowls of pesto and parmesan.

4 Dinner Recipes With 30 Grams of Protein

Add these high-protein meals to your weekly weeknight rotation.
By Life Time
Cooking & Food
colorful cereal loops

The Truth About Ultraprocessed Foods

These products are everywhere. Here's a closer look at the many ways these food products can harm your health — and why it’s worth the effort to avoid them when you can.
By Catherine Guthrie
Cooking & FoodFood Addiction
stuffed bell peppers

4 Lunch Recipes With 30 Grams of Protein

These high-protein lunches will make for a welcome mealtime break midday.
By Life Time
Cooking & Food
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