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Planning an Edible Garden? Here are 6 Things to Consider

This spring, celebrate nature by truly getting in touch with the ground. Why not consider building an edible garden? Before you break ground, here are six factors to consider before planting.

Start Planning: Grow a Kitchen Garden

Location
If possible, choose a spot close to the kitchen (especially for growing herbs) so you can easily snip and harvest for cooking. If there is no nearby space for a ground plot or raised beds, containers set on a patio or deck are a good option. Herbs and some small plants can also be grown in pots on a sunny windowsill.

All Your Sushi-Making Questions, Answered

All Your Sushi-Making Questions, Answered

It’s well-known that in Japan, cooks train for years (and even decades) to become master sushi chefs—and that explains why so many of us think sushi is best left to the experts. But if you think you can’t make the delicacy at home, then you’re missing out: With just a few tips and tricks, you, too, can be enjoying your own sushi at home.

Before You Get Started:
Read through our list of the top five biggest sushi-making questions. Then grab a bag of sushi rice, some quality fish, and our DIY sushi kit, and get rolling.

Tips for a Better Food Delivery Experience

Why pick up your food when you can get it delivered? Sometimes there just aren’t enough hours in the day to prepare your own meals. And if you’re throwing a party or planning a work lunch, you would definitely be in a bind if you had to make all that food yourself. Luckily, food delivery is a convenient and affordable solution, especially if you need to feed a lot of people.

Food delivery isn’t going anywhere either. In fact, it’s a growing industry that likely won’t let up anytime soon. Independent catering companies were able to make more than $8 billion in revenues in the last year alone.

In 2017, U.S. food and drink sales of mobile caterers (like for office lunches) reached $967 million while social caterers (birthday parties, weddings, etc.) reached $8.6 billion.

Cooking with Your Kids: 5 Reasons You Should Be Doing It

When it comes to raising an adventurous eater, it is not just about coaxing kids to eat their veggies. Bringing up a child who can enjoy a cantaloupe as much as a cupcake takes patience and persistence, but it does not have to feel like a chore.

Kids may need to have frequent joyful experiences involving food to overcome the anxiety they may have around tasting the unfamiliar. Over time, cooking with your children can help build that confidence—and provide rich sensory experiences.

Here are five ways to enjoy cooking with your children while raising an adventurous eater along the way.

Engage Other Senses.
For a hesitant eater, tasting an unfamiliar food can sometimes be intimidating. You can help your child explore foods when cooking using other senses besides taste. This helps to build positive associations with food. Kneading dough, rinsing vegetables, and tearing lettuce all involve touching food and being comfortable with texture. The complex flavors we experience when eating food come from both taste sensations from the tongue AND smelling with the nose. While cooking with new ingredients, some children may feel too overwhelmed to taste. If this happens, you can try suggesting smelling a food first; this may provide a bridge to tasting in the future.
How to Plant a Victory Garden

Victory gardens are home vegetable gardens that were originally born out of necessity. They got their start during World Wars I and II, when people grew their own produce to free up food for the war effort and help stabilize the country’s food supply.

What You’ll Need

Hoe

Trowel

Gardening gloves

Watering can

Plants or seeds of your choosing (suitable for your growing area)

Vertical planters are space-saving champs: Today in “You can do it!”: Gardening. You can indeed start a victory garden in order to grow herbs and produce in as much space as a small deck or balcony. Even a sunny windowsill can foster pots with enough fertile soil for a small crop. Need inspiration? Consider the history of the term “victory garden”: Americans grew their own food in 1917, as we rolled into WWI, in order to allow the U.S. to send food to European allies where hunger was rampant. Americans stepped up; people grew their own produce; they lessened reliance on the food supply chain.

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