Posted on February 4th, 2010 by sanaacooks
There is now widspread agreement that obesity is an epidemic, especially among young people. That is the tradegy. Obesity at a young age is a struggle that you never outgrow it. Of course, along with obesity comes those most deadly adult afflictions-heart disease and diabetes not to mention low self esteem that you have to [...]
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Posted on January 20th, 2010 by sanaacooks
I think we should be treated much like gun buyers, who are required to wait a period of time while our credentials are being checked before we can buy a gun. I wonder if a two week cooling off period shouldn’t be required for those of us who want to jump right in and act [...]
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Posted on January 11th, 2010 by sanaacooks
Reading Erin Chase’s new cookbook, The $5 Dinner Mom Cookbook , simply drives home the point that too many people in America either have lost the art of cooking, or they never had it to begin with.
One of my objective is to try to get people back into the kitchen, and Author Chase has found [...]
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Posted on January 6th, 2010 by sanaacooks
Several members of my restaurant staff are from Mexico. I learned from them a novel way of celebrating the New Year. As the New Year approached and we were busy preparing for our lunch rush, I noticed my staff exchanging bags and handfuls of lentils. I had to ask what it was all about. I [...]
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Posted on December 20th, 2009 by sanaacooks
A number of years ago we spent Christmas holiday in Florence, Italy. On Christmas Eve, we took 30 minutes drive to Siena. Although every Italian city and village has a city plaza, or piazza, Siena’s is different, it is fan shaped, and slopes downward to the base of the fan where a beautiful Catholic church [...]
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Posted on December 3rd, 2009 by sanaacooks
If you’re planning a dinner this holiday season, my best piece of advice is to do something that won’t cause you to panic. There is enough stress around the year-end holidays without adding the stress that comes from trying to plan a huge meal for your friends and family. By all means, do not try [...]
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Posted on November 24th, 2009 by sanaacooks
As proof that Thanksgiving is purely American holiday, most immigrants to this country that I know, have gone out of their way to be as American as they can be. The minute that a federal official swears in a new crop of immigrants as American citizens, one of the first thoughts in their mind is not” [...]
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