Tag: Cooking

Derek Nance eats only raw meat for 5 years

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Gross alert: This guy has eaten only raw meat for the past five years
Holly Richmond, grist.org

ViceDerek Nance.If you slide waaaay down from the Paleo diet on the weird scale, you find Derek Nance. Dude’s been solely subsisting on raw meat for almost six years and, according to Vice, has “never been healthier”:Five years ago, Derek h…

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Choosing the right oils to cook with

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Why You Should Have More than One Oil In Your Kitchen (and How to Choose The Best Ones)
Alan Henry, lifehacker.com

Anyone can toss some oil into a pan and cook, but if you want to up your cooking game, consider using different oils based on the dish you’re making and how you plan to cook it. Using the right one can mean the difference between a tasty, well-coo…

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Chemistry makes healthy foods more appealing

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Can Chemistry Make Healthy Foods More Appealing?
Rachel Nuwer, smithsonianmag.com

Photo: holtmiGive a baby her first spoonful of mashed spinach or blended brussell sprouts and you can likely watch her face pucker up in shocked torment. Veggies tend to be a dreaded childhood bane for many youngsters, yet there are exceptions to …

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Buckwheat hull pillow won’t go flat

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Hullo: A Simple All-Natural Buckwheat Pillow Designed to Help You Get Your Zzs
George Neilson, inhabitat.com

Is your current pillow flatter than a pancake? Rather turning to your local superstore for a replacement made from questionable fibers (and probably treated with retardants), go the all-natural route and rest easy come bed time. Hullo has created …

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Magnus Nilsson’s Faviken Cookbook a How-To for the Amateur Forager

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(via Magnus Nilsson’s Faviken Cookbook a How-To for the Amateur Forager – Newsweek and The Daily Beast)

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What radishes can teach us about personal privacy

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Radishes moan when groped
Mark Frauenfelder, boingboing.net

World’s Best Ever says: “The Sekuhara (trans­lat­ed: Sex­u­al Harass­ment) Inter­face is a group of daikon radish­es that have been hooked up to elec­tron­ic sen­sors to emit moans and groans when groped.”

It would be easy to con­struct a Sekuha…

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Sushi now makes you dim

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Sushi really does kill your brain – Salon.com
By Paul Ames, GlobalPost, salon.com

A new report warns that mercury contamination can cause restricted cerebral development and other health problems

BRUS­SELS, Bel­gium — Can eat­ing too much sushi reduce your brain power?

Mer­cury con­t­a­m­i­na­tion in big fish such as sharks…

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Hard cider is rediscovered

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Americans Rediscover The Kick Of Hard Cider
Nina Keck, npr.org

Americans Rediscover The Kick Of Hard Cider NPR Morning Edition

A cou­ple hun­dred years ago. hard apple cider used to be the drink of choice for thirsty Amer­i­cans. It was easy to make and easy to find. But as peo­ple moved into cities, and be…

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Eat This Meal

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Eat This Meal
Rachel Swaby, wired.com

Photo: Todd Tanker­s­ley

Fuel­ing your body is easy—if you can pull your­self away from fancy fla­vor com­bi­na­tions and the lat­est culi­nary trends. Just load your plate with foods that are proven to make you stronger and health­i­er, eat, an…

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