Rock Your Palate

  Every year millions of Americans have allergic reactions to food. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention the percentage of children having food-allergy reactions is somewhere between 4% to 6%  and adults at just under 2%. There are two main risk factors associated with food-allergy reactions. One factor is having an existing family history or having a [...]

Choices… Table Salt, Sea Salt or Kosher salt? The nutritional value of sea, table and kosher salts are all the same … the difference lies in their taste and texture. The harvest of sea salt is through the evaporation of seawater, table salt is mined from rock salt and kosher salt is made by compacting [...]

Slow Food is a movement that started 20 years ago as an alternative to the fast food culture of today. There are many sites to browse on the net: slowfood.com, slowfood.org, slowfoodnation.org, slowfoodfoundation.org just to name a few. Slow food means preparing your food by traditional methods emphasizing quality ingredients and presentation.   Stop… you say [...]

Thinking of buying Organic Products? Know the facts! In 2002 the USDA approved four categories of organic food labels and they are based on the level of organic ingredients in that food. Pick up an Organic product and if you will see the Organic Seal it is either 100% organic in content or 95% organic [...]

Molasses is basically non-crystallized sucrose or sugar. It is either designated as sulfured or unsulfured. Sulfur dioxide gas is used as a preservative and bleaching agent in the sulfured molasses product. The sulfur may also give the molasses an unpleasant odor and cause an allergic reaction in some people. Unsulfured molasses tends to be lighter and have a cleaner sugarcane flavor than sulfured. Most brands of molasses will indicate whether they are sulfured or not.

Stevia is a zero-calorie sweetener native to Central and South America known as sweet leaf or sugar leaf . It is widely used as a sweetener in Japan, and available in Canada as a dietary supplement. The US has just lifted a decade long ban on Stevia as a supplement. Compared to sugar it is [...]