While raising children that are emotionally content and happy depends on the effort you make as a parent, recent research has found that quality is more important than quantity. Even though you may make an effort to spend more free time with your kids, the amount of...
How often have you come home after a long day only to find “nothing” to eat in your kitchen? Your refrigerator isn’t stocked, your pantry looks bare, and you have nothing planned to make either. You could just order carry out, but that’s not your only option. ...
This has become my go-to recipe for dessert. It’s quick to prepare and requires no exotic ingredients. It scales easily so I can make 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, or 12 at a time. I find that it takes 10 minutes to make, ten minutes to bake, ten minutes to cool so from start to...
Flashback to the summer of ‘89. I had just finished my sophomore year of college. Facing a decision between a research position at a marine sciences institute at the beach and an internship at the National Cancer Institute, I opted for the latter. The program assigned...
The dinner party is a wonderful way of bringing people together with good food and drink. Throwing this kind of soiree can be intimidating, however, and the menu can pose challenges of all sorts. Hosting the ultimate dinner party is achievable with these five simple...
America is a nation of extremes, where we take something to the “nth” degree. Take food, for example. There are food channels, food reviewers (foodies), and diets galore. Look on social media at any given moment and you will find someone promoting a paleo diet or a...
