Food & Cooking

Tips for Meeting Your Food Needs With Chronic Illness

By Jaime E. Love 2 weeks ago
Food delivery bags outside door.
Food delivery bags outside door.

I’ve mentioned on my YouTube channel that I feel best when I am mostly eating whole foods like fruits and vegetables, while avoiding grains, starches, legumes/beans and processed foods. I am not impeccable in my eating. There are times I have been — eating squeaky clean and carefully monitoring exactly what and how much of what ingredient went in my system. That is how I know what seems to work best for my system — which things make me feel worse and what I can indulge in.

I understand that even talking about these options carries a great deal of privilege. One can’t make these discretionary choices in this country without having access to wealth, and in our case, help. There are many days when I am simply unable to do much of anything greater than wash a piece of fruit for consumption. And yet,

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Want to drastically improve your cooking? Get the right types of salt and use them well

By Jaime E. Love 3 weeks ago
<span class="copyright">(Hanna Carter / For The Times)</span>
(Hanna Carter / For The Times)

Salt is often the difference between a good dish and great dish. To season with it right and well, it’s helpful to understand the different types of salts and the best ways to use them.

Where does salt come from?

True “sea salt” is harvested from shallow marshes, ponds or other low-lying areas. It comes from either sunshine and wind evaporating the water and leaving behind the salt or from raking salt off the surface of still water.

Other cooking salts come from solution mining. After water dissolves salt deposits, the brine solution is evaporated and purified. The salt left behind is then dried and refined, ending up as almost entirely sodium chloride.

The harvesting and processing determine the shape, size and taste of cooking salts. Here’s a guide to the most commonly used types:

Kosher Salt

Diamond Crystal Kosher Salt: My go-to salt

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Padma Lakshmi Embedded With Immigrant Chefs to Tell the Real Story of American Food

By Jaime E. Love 3 weeks ago
Photo credit: Hearst Owned
Photo credit: Hearst Owned

From Esquire

Photo credit: Hearst Owned
Photo credit: Hearst Owned

You’d be hard-pressed to find a longer resume in the world of food journalism—or even entertainment—right now than that of Padma Lakshmi. An Emmy-winning TV host, she’s also a cookbook author, a venerable producer, and a powerful activist. Her reign on Top Chef as a host and a judge, plus an EP, is nearing 15 years, and in 2009, she co-founded the Endometriosis Foundation of America. She works with both the United Nations Development Program and serves as an ambassador to the ACLU. And if you’re wondering who currently serves as the mayor of Twitter, look no further than her inspiring, occasionally incendiary, feed.

It’s an incredibly wide range, and it all informs her addictive, compelling new show, Taste the Nation. The 10-episode series, which she developed, produced, and hosts, debuts Thursday on Hulu. The driving

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Scoop Up 5 Stocks That Tap the Packaged Food Industry Upturn

By Jaime E. Love 3 weeks ago

Packaged food industry is riding the wave of coronavirus as the pandemic massively impacted its consumers’ dietary behaviour. Demand for packaged food and beverages is witnessing a sharp increase as lockdown prompted shoppers to panic buy all packaged food items.

Over the last few years, this consumer-driven industry underwent copious shifts, courtesy of the ever-changing demands of buyers and substantial innovations. Rise of health-conscious consumers dented demand for processed food and fuelled organic food market growth. However, processed food appears to have staged a comeback amid the COVID-19 quarantine. Restaurants unable to open their doors due to social distancing forced consumers to order online and dine at home. Millennials, who are otherwise less brand loyal, are now returning to trusted brands and comfort food. Home-cooked food is now considered safer than junk items. High unemployment rate and restricted travel are also boosting the sales of packaged food. Thus, coronavirus is

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