Food & Cooking

Food banks: What foods to donate and what to avoid

Mitchell R. Lajoie 5 days ago

When the pandemic began, Kim Foster knew food scarcity was going to become an issue. The James Beard award-winning author decided to help in the way she was most familiar: helping to feed the community.

“I ran a food pantry and fridge on the curb in front of our house in Las Vegas,” Foster, who is writing a book about her experience, told TODAY Food.

She said the idea started as a way to circulate resources and share items people purchased and did not use.

“So, you might have a lot of rice, but need pasta or toilet paper,” she said.

As the pantry grew, Foster learned the intricacies of food donation and the needs of people experiencing food insecurity in her community.

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“In many ways, the little pantries expand the social contacts for people in the community,” she explained. “If you are feeding people, you know who

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1 Minute Lose Weight Review

Mitchell R. Lajoie 6 days ago

A platform for experimenting with new flavors and dishes, in addition to elements of service, design and décor. In June 2017, we announced that Yahoo and AOL joined to grow to be a unified digital and mobile media company as a part of Verizon We are now working below these unified Terms of Service. When you’ve got a Yahoo or an AOL account, you will want to agree to those Terms. (Be aware, when you’ve got not but agreed to those Phrases, the legacy Yahoo Terms of Service or legacy Oath Phrases of Service (for AOL) still apply to your account.) For all Verizon Media services or products which might be accessed with out signing into an account, the Phrases under apply to these products and services efficient Could 25, 2018. In case you are creating a brand new account, the Terms below apply beginning today.

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Food history from the year you were born

Mitchell R. Lajoie 6 days ago

Food history from the year you were born

Fashion is often thought to be the defining quality of a generation. But what many people don’t realize is that the dinner table can give just as many clues about a period in time as clothing. Sweet and savory gelatin-based foods were as characteristic of the 1960s as bell-bottoms, go-go boots, and drop-waist dresses. Low-fat diets and farm-to-table foods represented the ’70s as much as peasant blouses, military surplus clothes, and frayed jeans. In the ’80s, aesthetics-obsessed Americans sipped on Diet Coke and snapped up Lean Cuisine from grocery shelves, all while wearing skin-tight Spandex aerobics gear, power suits, and eye-catching jumpsuits. Food and fashion truly go hand in hand.

Unlike the cyclical nature of fashion, which repeats itself over and over again, food innovations tend to build upon one another. We probably wouldn’t have the Big Mac if the

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The Pepper Thai Cookbook: Chrissy Teigen’s mom talks food, family and her need for Thai spice

Mitchell R. Lajoie 6 days ago
(CNN) — As anyone who’s visited Thailand knows, food is a key part of the experience.

Whether you’re street side in Chiang Mai slurping back a bowl of khao soi noodles or enjoying a Michelin-starred Thai meal in a high-end Bangkok restaurant, the memories of those powerful, balanced flavors stay with you long after you’ve left the country.

Vilailuck “Pepper” Teigen knows this all too well. Mother of model, TV personality and entrepreneur Chrissy Teigen, Pepper emigrated to Utah from Thailand’s northeast Isaan region in the early 1980s.

For years, she says she tried to replicate the flavors of home, struggling to find ingredients in the small American town she lived in.

“When I had Chrissy as a baby I remember going to a little market,” she tells CNN during a recent video interview.

“I was the only Asian in that little town — Delta, Utah — where Chrissy was

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