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Cooking


Food spotlight: Beyond sushi

Ask most people outside Japan about Japanese food and they’ll say “sushi.” While sushi is an iconic and popular cuisine in the land of the rising sun, it’s only one of many delicious dishes and styles of cooking you’ll find there.   Here’s just a taste of other foods you can explore when you visit […]

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Shopping for groceries on a budget

In 2020, US consumers spent an average of 8.6% of their disposable personal income on food — 5.0% on groceries and 3.6% outside the home. While that’s down slightly, mostly because of people reining in spending during the pandemic, food prices were actually up 3.5% from 2019, with beef prices soaring nearly 10%.   If […]

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Food spotlight: Vietnam

Known for its beautiful beaches, Buddhist pagodas and bustling cities – Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City – Vietnam also offers a unique synthesis of dishes, influenced by China and the French, its former Eastern European communist sister-countries, as well as its Malaysian and Cambodian neighbors.   Here are five dishes from Vietnam that everyone […]

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The future is meatless

Livestock products – like meat and dairy – are responsible for 18% of greenhouse gases. That’s as much each year as from all cars, trucks, airplanes and ships combined. And it means that the more meat and dairy we continue to eat, the more destructive climate change will continue to be.   To meet global […]

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