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Essential Kitchen Tools and Cooking Utensils

To make your kitchen an enjoyable, easy place to work, make sure your tools and ingredients are handy, your sink is cleared out and your work surfaces are clean. Like any good workspace, your kitchen needs good tools. The following recommendations include what you’ll need to cook healthy meals, as w
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Meat & Poultry Cooking Guide

The best way to make sure meat and poultry are juicy and delicious is to cook them to the proper doneness. When you overcook meat and poultry they dry out and become tough—but you don’t want to undercook them either. The most foolproof way to tell when meat is done, whether you’re roasting, grilling
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Grilled Vegetables Guide

Cooking vegetables on the grill imparts a delicious smokiness. And if the grill’s already on, why not put some vegetables on too? Here are cooking instructions and seasoning ideas for our favorite vegetables for grilling, but don’t limit yourself to these—grill whatever vegetables you have on hand.
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Green Choices: Meat & Poultry Buyer's Guide

Meat and poultry labels are confusing these days. What does "Natural" on that package of chicken breast mean? Why does "Certified Organic" cost so much? What’s a meat-eater to do? Our green guide to meat and poultry will help you make choices that are best for you. Grass-fed animals eat nothing but
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Bean Cooking Guide

Besides being delicious and accepting of just about any flavoring, virtually all types of beans are nutrient powerhouses—rich in protein, folic acid, magnesium and protective phytochemicals. (Choose darker-colored beans, and you’ll benefit even more; recent research confirms that black, red and brow
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Whole Grain Cooking Guide

Trying to eat more whole grains? Keep trying! Grains provide a healthy boost of vitamins, minerals, fiber, antioxidants and phytonutrients. Grains are also rich in carbohydrates—the body’s main fuel supply—so we need a fair amount daily (despite what low-carb/no-carb gurus say). When it comes to inc
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Essential Grill Guide

Here is a no-frills, essential quick-cooking guide to help you grill meat, poultry, seafood or even tofu. Pick one of these lean, quick-cooking proteins and follow the marinating times, cooking times and temperatures for perfect results every time you grill. Keep this guide on the refrigerator to en
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Green Choices: Seafood Buyer's Guide

You may have decided to buy wild vs. farmed salmon but finding other sustainable seafood isn’t an easy task. At present the USDA has no organic certification program for seafood (an organic seafood label may mean nothing or that the fish was certified "organic" overseas). For sound environmental inf
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Fall Fruit Guide

Crisp apples, tart cranberries, juicy pears and tangy pomegranates are delicious and healthy fruits that are in season now. This handy guide lets you know what each offers nutritionally and helps you choose the tastiest fruit at the market. Sweet, tangy, juicy and flavorful, an apple is nature’s per
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Guide to Cooking 20 Vegetables

If you want more fiber, nutrients and antioxidants in your diet—eat more vegetables! We know it’s tough to expand your vegetable vocabulary when you don’t know how to cook unfamiliar varieties, so we’ve compiled this cooking guide for 20 of our favorite vegetables. Here are some grocery shopping tip
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