You’ve probably seen Muscle Milk around before. It’s a popular nutritional supplement, one that’s meant to help you gain muscle and give you plenty of other benefits. If nothing else, Muscle Milk is an easy way to increase your protein intake. Is Muscle Milk good for you then? This is a question that some people […]
Is Pasta Good For You?
Pasta is an incredibly common ingredient, one that makes its way into countless meals and recipes. It’s delicious, inexpensive, and easy to use, but is pasta good for you? Our modern focus on superfoods and low carb would suggest that pasta is something to be avoided. Yet, this dietary staple does still have some benefits. […]
12 Best Foods For The Nervous System, Plus Three Nerve-Soothing Snacks
The human nervous system includes the brain, the spine, and all the nerves that run throughout the human body, as well as the myelin sheath that wraps around them. The nervous system is essential to our survival, but whether or not it works well often has to do with getting enough of the right nutrients […]
The Best Peach Vodka
Vodka is most often intended to be a neutral drink – clean, crisp, and near flavorless. The less flavor a vodka has, while remaining smooth and clean, the more it tends to be praised. Even when flavor is present, it’s usually in the form of soft, subtle, barely-there notes with only one or two flavors […]
Top 10 Camping Cookbooks
Going camping is fun, until one begins planning for it. There are clothes to pack, gear to carry, and provision lists to fulfill. If you’ve got picky eaters, then menu planning can be even more tedious as usual. That’s because hot dogs and sandwiches will get old really quick. And foraging for fresh food is […]
Top 10 Illustrated Cookbooks
Today’s modern aspirational cookbooks tend to rely on glossy, lush pictures to show the perfection of its recipes and the lifestyle these cookbooks promote. And while one can spend so much time looking at these photos (because who doesn’t like food porn?), they can only do so much in conveying the process of cooking the […]
10 Best Foods For Your Heart And Arteries, And Five Hearty Meals To Try
In the United States, heart disease is the leading cause of death. Statistically, around 1 in every 4 people dies from some type of heart disease, including heart attacks and strokes. Cardiac disease is mostly a lifestyle disease, which means many people can reduce their risk of heart disease by making lifestyle changes. Sometimes tweaking […]
Top 10 Puerto Rican Cookbooks
Puerto Rico is home to a rich culinary tradition known as Cocina Criolla or creole cooking. Some of us may associate creole with Louisiana cuisine but out there in Spanish-speaking islands, this term refers to Spanish Americans of European descent. The island has had a reputation of being the world’s longest colony. And while it […]
Vietnamese Drinks That Are Interesting, Unusual, And Delicious
Vietnamese food is well-known for being delicious, vibrant, and packed with flavor. Vietnamese drinks, on the other hand, are much less well-known. This difference is a shame, as there are many delicious drinks to choose from. Some of these drinks can be found in other parts of the world, like tea, which is one of […]
12 Best Foods For Chemo Patients To Eat, Plus Five Tips For Easing Chemotherapy Symptoms With Food
I met my friend Rebekah when she was in the middle of treatment for breast cancer. She had three small children at the time, and getting meals together when she was sick was a horrible idea. Neighbors and family members pitched in, but she still had to find the energy—and the desire—to eat once the […]