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1 week ago | 
yahoo.com | Suzanne Wiley
We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Whether you're trying to reduce your grocery bill as prices rise, looking for additional sources of iron and fiber in your diet, or generally consuming less meat, lentils are an excellent protein source to turn to. These tiny discs come in a range of textures and colors, and they're so easy to prepare that they're one of the best foods to try when you're first learning how to cook legumes.
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1 week ago | 
yahoo.com | Suzanne Wiley
Ina Garten's kitchens have long been favorites of her fans over the years. They adore the comforting, easy designs that have allowed Garten to create some really delicious food. If you've watched her cooking shows, you've seen how effortlessly she's able to move between the sink and stove, and how organized each kitchen has looked.
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3 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Suzanne Wiley
You'd think cereal would be one of the safer foods out there. However, it has suffered from problems ranging from bacterial contamination to inclusion of foreign matter. Several brands of cereal have been the subjects of recalls since records were first kept in the 1970s, and while most causes are due to contamination in one form or another, some products have to be recalled for different reasons.
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3 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Suzanne Wiley
Jacques Pépin's goal has been to make it easier for people to cook good food in an easy manner. He's influenced so many home cooks and professional chefs alike, and he's continued cooking well into his later years (he turns 90 in December 2025). He's worked as a restaurant chef and recipe developer, and his T.V. shows that he hosted solo and with Julia Child are classics that many have watched since childhood.
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3 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Suzanne Wiley
What would our lives be like now if people such as Emeril Lagasse, Ina Garten, and Alton Brown never graced our TV screens? There's no doubt that the Food Network and all its shows have had a major influence on how we view cooking and food, and several shows and chefs stand out among the others. However, many of the stars that made Food Network successful seem to have dropped out of sight.
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1 month ago | 
yahoo.com | Suzanne Wiley
Martha Stewart's advice for home design, care, and cooking have helped many create comforting spaces for themselves over the past decades. After working on Wall Street, Stewart moved into catering, which grew into the home and food media empire that you see today. It's safe to say that Stewart has been a major force in changing our concepts of what a kitchen should include.
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1 month ago | 
yahoo.com | Suzanne Wiley
Kitchen trends come and go, but some come back again and again. Each re-appearance of a trend is a little different than before because people aren't just re-creating old styles; they're adding contemporary twists that make these older trends look almost new. For the past couple of years, trends from the 1990s have made their way back into homes -- especially the kitchen -- and this should be cause for celebration.
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1 month ago | 
yahoo.com | Suzanne Wiley
If you want cooking advice that focuses on making things simple and realistic, you turn to Ina Garten. The same goes for advice about dinner parties and entertaining. Garten has repeatedly centered simplicity and ease whenever she's shown how to set a table, with "How easy is that?" becoming one of her best-known catchphrases. This is a person who advocates for store-bought over homemade if the store-bought version is perfectly tasty and the homemade version is arduous and exhausting.
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1 month ago | 
yahoo.com | Suzanne Wiley
We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Sumac is a spice that has been gaining wider visibility over the past couple of decades. It's long been very popular in Mediterranean and Middle Eastern cooking, and indigenous populations in North America have used the berries for centuries as well. Luckily for home cooks, it's also one of the easier spices to use, as well as one of the more versatile, pairing well with everything from meat to fruit salads.
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1 month ago | 
yahoo.com | Suzanne Wiley
Frozen dinners have long graced (or littered, depending on what you think of them) tables and TV trays in U.S. homes, and sometimes it seems like the brands you buy now have been around forever. But the frozen-food industry is competitive, and several brands have entered the market and dropped out over the years. Yet other brands really are still around after all these decades, but some of the specific dinners the brands used to sell are long gone.
