Food & Nutrition: Culinary Techniques, Diets & Metabolic Health

Nutritional health is achieved through the therapeutic use of whole foods, safe culinary preparation, and understanding the metabolic impacts of specific dietary frameworks and ingredients.

Chicken Cream Soup

How to Thicken Chicken Soup

It's never too late to thicken chicken soup, and it usually works out better to thicken later than earlier because you can choose a thickener that fits best. For example, if you have a broth-based chicken soup with an acidic ingredient, you want arrowroot for its agreeability with food acids.

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Frying Bacon

How to Boil Bacon

Start to Finish: 5 minutes for American sliced bacon, 1 hour for English bacon Servings: 4 to 6 Difficulty: Easy

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Sliced Steak Potatoes

How to Cook a London Broil in a Skillet

When you need only one ingredient and one pan for a dish -- such as London broil and a skillet -- make sure both are high quality. When it comes to the skillet, go for cast iron or tri-ply stainless steel.

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How to Cook Pork Jowl Bacon

Pork-jowl bacon doesn't differ much from pork-belly bacon, except for one thing: technically, it's offal. Although you wouldn't know by its appearance -- both jowl bacon and regular bacon are cured and smoked -- pork-jowl bacon comes from the inside of the pork cheek, just below the eye.

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