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Food & Drink, Science & Health

10 Best Vegetables to Grow in Pots – Best Container Vegetables

Plant, prune, and pick your way to a yard-to-table summer.

by: Caroline Mullen, April 22, 2021 7 Comments

Photo by Ty Mecham

This past year has seen a surge of moves to the suburbs, time spent on balconies and in yards, and home cooking, which inevitably also led to people thinking about growing their own food.

Growing herbs and vegetables doesn’t have to take up an entire yard or require a farmer’s touch, either. Everyday people (you!) can successfully feed themselves fresh homegrown produce, no matter how big or small the outdoor space.

I checked in with two plant experts, Nadia Hassani, plant author and Penn State Master Gardener, and Tim McSweeney, Food52 design director and backyard farmer extraordinaire, to find out the best starter produce for growing in containers.

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Food & Drink, Las Vegas, Nevada, Pleasures, Science & Health

Are buffets a thing of the past? Reimagining ‘all-you-can-eat’ in a post-COVID world

It’s hard to imagine salad bars and shared serving spoons in our new normal.

April 23, 2021, 11:15 AM PDT / Source: TODAY, By Ronnie Koenig

When buffets return, customers can expect to see staff enforcing social distancing policies and cleaning and sanitizing common utensils for months, if not years to come, said Chapman.TODAY Illustration / Getty Images stock

As restaurants have pivoted to stay open during the pandemic, buffets are one of those things that are difficult to imagining continuing in a post-COVID world.

Shared spoons, salad bar sneeze guards and standing in line next to other hungry customers in order to pile your plate high seems in direct opposition to the safety measures we’ve all adopted surrounding food service.

On Wednesday, Fresh Acquisitions, the parent company that owns Old Country Buffet, filed for bankruptcy, illustrating just how difficult it has been for restaurants whose concept centers around a communal dining experience.

Source: Are buffets a thing of the past? Reimagining ‘all-you-can-eat’ in a post-COVID world

Food & Drink, Las Vegas, Nevada, Travel

10 Restaurants First-Time Las Vegas Visitors Should Frequent

A view of Paris Las Vegas from the Bellagio | Photo by Las Vegas News Bureau
A view of Paris Las Vegas from the Bellagio | Photo by Las Vegas News Burea

“Any first time visitor in Las Vegas is surely overwhelmed by the plethora of places to visit. A food lover will already have a list of go-to spots to visit, while a newbie fresh off the plane might not come with an agenda. This list gives a little of both, with over-the-top experiences that come with a memory and a story to tell the friends back home.”

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Food & Drink, Science & Health

Feed Your Microbiome With Fiber-Rich And Naturally Fermented Foods : The Salt : NPR

Korean kimchi, made of salted and fermented vegetables, contains microbes that contribute to its distinctive taste. 4kodiak/Getty Images
Korean kimchi, made of salted and fermented vegetables, contains microbes that contribute to its distinctive taste. 4kodiak/Getty Images

“Katherine Harmon Courage wants us to think about digestion as a collaborative journey between us and our microbes. In her new book, Cultured: How Ancient Foods Can Feed Our Microbiome, she envisions digestion not as a simple food-in, excrement-out process, but as a series of encounters with varying microbial players that takes place along the winding 30-foot tunnel of our gastrointestinal tract. Along the way, microbes digest the food we can’t, and in return we give them a warm, well-stocked place to live.”

Source: Feed Your Microbiome With Fiber-Rich And Naturally Fermented Foods : The Salt : NPR

Current Affairs, Film & Movies, Food & Drink

Wolfgang Puck Dishes on 25 Years of Governors Ball – Variety

CREDIT: ALEX BERLINER/BEI/REX/SHUTTERSTO

The evening of March 24, 2002, was unseasonably cool in Los Angeles. It was the night of the 74th Academy Awards, and the first to be held at the newly completed Kodak Theatre in Hollywood. As the …

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