Edamame are baby soybeans which are picked when young and tender before the soybeans inside are fully mature. They are steamed or boiled and usually eaten as an appetizer or snack.
You’ll find them in Japanese and Asian restaurants where they are usually served salted and at room temperature. Typically, you eat the beans inside and discard the pods. Check your grocery or specialty foods store – they can sometimes be found in the frozen foods aisle.
In Chinese, young soybeans in the pod are known as maodoujia which …

I live on smoothies. I start most days with one. They are a great way for single folk to get their nutrients cheaply with just a blender, spoon and glass to wash.
(ARA) – With the abundance of fresh produce that accompanies the arrival of warm weather, you would think Americans’ diets would be healthier in summer than at nearly any other time of year. But what good are so-called “superfoods” like blueberries, fresh ginger and even eggs if you can’t get the kids (or your spouse) to eat them?
Plenty …

I was reading an article about factory food and the new movie Food, Inc. There was a section that really struck a cord with me about paying the real cost of food…
Paying the real price
One of Food, Inc.’s most frustrating scenes follows a family of four to the produce section of the supermarket. Says the mother: “Sometimes you look at a vegetable and say, ‘Okay, well, we can get two hamburgers for the same amount of price.’ ”
As Pollan points out in the film, that’s no accident. “Bad calories” are …

“How and what we eat has radically changed over the past few decades with the all-consuming rise of the supermarket. But what price are we paying for the homogenised, cheap and convenient food that supermarkets specialise in? In a two-part programme, journalist Jane Moore investigates how supermarkets have affected the food on our plates and reveals the tell-tale signs that the food we buy may not have been grown in the way we think.
Using a combination of undercover filming and scientific analysis, Supermarket Secrets investigates whether the food on …

“How and what we eat has radically changed over the past few decades with the all-consuming rise of the supermarket. But what price are we paying for the homogenised, cheap and convenient food that supermarkets specialise in? In a two-part programme, journalist Jane Moore investigates how supermarkets have affected the food on our plates and reveals the tell-tale signs that the food we buy may not have been grown in the way we think.”
“…A very important watch for everyone, gives you facts about the meat and food you eat. …