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Ingredient Spotlight: Turmeric

Keep hearing about the medicinal properties of Turmeric but have no idea how to take it? Here's the 411 on this anti-inflammatory powerhouse, and how you can reap the benefits! [read more]

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Ingredient Spotlight: Nutritional Yeast

Nutritional Yeast. Could a name be any less appetizing. It has its devotees and its detesters, but when used right, this ingredient can be a valued addition to your cooking seasonings, as well as an added source of nutrition. [read more]

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Ingredient Spotlight: Kuzu

Kuzu is a starch that is used in cooking as a thickener, but there are a few reasons you might want to use Kuzu over cornstarch, potato starch or arrowroot. [read more]

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Ingredient Spotlight: Agar

If you haven’t heard of Agar, then let me be the first to introduce you!  For vegans it is an absolute must-have ingredient in your cooking toolbox, and for non-vegans, its a way to replace gelatin in your diet. Agar, also referred to as Agar-Agar or kanten, is a gelling agent that comes from seaweed. It can also be used in fruit preserves, [read more]

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Ingredient Spotlight: Kala Namak

  When I was a kid, the most dreaded item I could find in my lunchbox, besides a tuna sandwich, was a hard-boiled egg. Upon cracking the shell, the sulfurous stinky smell exploded in a cloud that elicited exclamations of ‘Ewww gross!! Rotten egg!!’ Which was then followed by a mass exodus of those around me and a mortification that [read more]

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