How Safe is Your Food? Your Cookware Determines This!

What determines if your food is safe? The way it is grown, harvested and packaged is important but one factor plays a key role in determining how safe and healthy your food is in its edible state – and that is the cookware...

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Meet The Bean – Chickpeas or Garbanzo Beans

Hi, I am Chickpea a.k.a. Garbanzo Bean. My name chickpea comes from the Latin word Cicer, referring to the plant family of legumes, Fabaceae. I am also known by my popular Spanish-derived name, the garbanzo bean. I am quite old...

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Best Pots and Pans: Why Miriam’s Earthen Cookware (MEC) is the winner?

MEC pots are made from pure clay -- the only 100% tested and scientifically proven material for making cookware sets. While conventional cookware is made of metals like Cast Iron, Aluminum and Stainless Steel and is coated with many different chemicals and...

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Summer Time = Yogurt Time, Learn How to Make the Healthiest Yogurt in 10 Minutes Hands-on Time!

Summer time means it’s time to have your favorite super-food that is cooling, soothing, nutritious, and light – the healthy homemade yogurt. The best part is you can enjoy this delicious food without compromising on your diet – that is if made...

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Non-toxic Kitchenware: Which ones and Where to get it?

Cooking healthy food calls not just for using healthy and ingredients but also using 100% non-toxic kitchenware. This is because food is a biochemical entity and when it comes in contact with a toxic and reactive material, these toxins reactively leach into food. This begs an important question: which...

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Sustainable Living: Your cookware speaks loud on this aspect! Find out how and why it's important to choose green cookware?

Cookware is an essential need in every household. We use it to cook three square meals over non-renewable sources of energy. And it is used for or by everyone in the world! If we use our pots and pans so often and so commonly, it certainly needs to be one that is eco-friendly for us...

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Meet The Ingredients: Yam & Potatoes

Yam: Hi, I am Yam – carbohydrate rich, staple tuber vegetable of West African origin.  Although I am grown all over the African continent, Nigeria is the world’s largest producer and exporter, accounting for over 70 percent of the total global production.  I am...

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The Connection between the Types of Pots and Pans and the Nutritional Value of the Cooked Food

Do you know that the health of your food depends on the health of the cooking pot? The effect of the types of pots and pans on the nutritional value of food is often ignored but...

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Does Slow Cooking Increase Nutritional Value or Decrease it?

We, humans have improved ways of doing many things from the way our ancestors did but cooking, unfortunately, isn’t one of them. Within the last century or so, we transitioned from clay pot cooking to many other forms of cooking but couldn’t duplicate the way food cooked in clay – in...

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Safest and Healthiest Cookware in Boston

Boston is one of the oldest cities in the United States. Founded in 1630, it has witnessed several key events of the American Revolution! The city that was once established as a “city set on a hill”, i.e. as an example to...

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