All this week, the Royal Examiner will be bringing you these holiday recipes to help you prepare a very merry Christmas Dinner. Perfect as a side...
Are you passionate about international cuisine? Here are four places where the food is simply divine. Peru Peru, and Lima in particular, is an increasingly popular...
Roast turkey, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie are all iconic Thanksgiving foods, but preparing the same dishes year after year can get a little...
Are you looking for ways to lower the amount of fat you consume? Here are four ways to make healthy meals without using butter or oil....
The weight creep starts in October with Halloween candies. Then continues through Thanksgiving with Aunt Edna’s special cake. And comes to a blinding finish at Christmas...
Butternut, pumpkin, spaghetti, kabocha, acorn — winter squashes are abundant at this time of year. Unlike summer varieties that are picked when they’re young and tender,...
Around the time of Moses, when Rome was just pasture land, a lowly Egyptian worker filled some jars with honey, sealed them tight and stored them...
The spices that make up the famed pumpkin spice or pumpkin pie spice have nothing to do with pumpkins, but they have a lot to do...
Wine continues to be a staple alcoholic beverage for many Americans and trends towards natural wine, urban wineries, and more convenient packaging will likely dominate 2018,...
There are three foods, and evidently only three, that scream crazy. Bananas, nuts, and crackers. Why? Bananas likely came from the slang of flappers in the...
Dates are an ancient food prized in many parts of the world for their delicate, sweet flavor and, according to NPR, they have been consumed by...
More than 4,000 years ago, turmeric was being used to spice up food and make medicines in India. Today, the spice is still an important crop...
Food shows on network TV and online streaming services like YouTube have exploded recently and many kids are becoming so interested in cooking that an entire...
Comic book character Dagwood Bumstead loved it on his huge sandwiches. It’s the bitter herb of seder tables at Passover. And, it was considered an aphrodisiac...
Any summer night is Father’s Day when Dad mans the grill for relaxed dinners on the patio. Here’s an idea for fabulous grilled chicken that uses...
The dramatic story of the well-traveled sweet potato Sweet potatoes originated in Central and South America, but they managed to travel across the Pacific by 1000...
It’s hard to overstate the mania for morel mushrooms. From March to May, in Canada and the United States, morel hunting is a seasonal delirium in...
In the 2016 novel A Gentleman in Moscow, the best seller by Amor Towles, the main character, Count Rostov, watches as a young man puzzles over...
Don’t you hate it when your back aches, your energy is down, and what you really need is a good meal? But who wants to cook...
The origins of the Reuben sandwich are widely contested, but it is certain that many a palate has savored the rich deli taste of the corned...
The wildly popular Sriracha hot sauce will put some spice into your Valentine dinner. Sriracha is the 80-year-old invention of a Thai cook, Thanom Chakkapak, who...
How long to keep them Eggs in the shell are safe to eat up to five weeks after the sell-by date, found on the short end...
Let’s first get the bad PR out of the way: Eggs won’t raise your risk of stroke, heart attack or heart failure, according to the Tufts...
It may never have crossed your mind: In the bags of mixed nuts in the shell, none of the nuts are cashews. In fact, cashews are...
Tourtiere, or meat pie, is a traditional part of French Canadian Christmas and New Year’s Eve fare, although the dish is enjoyed throughout Canada. Like many...
Pulses are in the nutritional spotlight, and we aren’t talking heart beats. Pulses — a branch of the legume or pea family — are harvested for...
In the north, it’s called stuffing. In the south, it’s called dressing. In the east, sometimes it’s called filling. The word you use means less than...
October through December are prime months for pumpkin pies — a uniquely North American treat that mainly puzzles Europeans. In fact, expats routinely complain that finding...
The useful nutrition labels on foods now contain a new element: Added Sugars. The listing now allows consumers to tell how much sugar is naturally occurring...
Here’s a meal that brings out the flavor of the delightful peach, even if, as a yankee, you get store peaches that are routinely hard. This...