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.

Red Salmon Vs. Pink Salmon

Sockeye salmon – sometimes referred to as "red" salmon – and pink salmon are both cold water fish found in the Pacific Ocean. Unlike Atlantic salmon, Pacific salmon are caught wild in rivers, lakes and estuaries from Oregon to Alaska.

Read more →
Almonds

Is There a Difference Between Raw Almonds & Natural Almonds?

Almonds are a delicious snack and nutritional powerhouses, to boot. You’ll see them sold in a number of different ways -- roasted, smoked, blanched, slivered, and sliced, to name a few -- and like many other food products, it can be difficult to decipher all the designations industries use on their labels.

Read more →
Squash

How to Cook a Gourd

The gourd family, Cucurbitaceae, includes hundreds of vining plants that produce fruit, or curcurbits -- the most recognizable being pumpkins, winter squash, ornamental miniature squashes, and large gourds that are often hollowed out for birdhouses.

Read more →