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By Robin Mather Jenkins | May 16, 2007
Once upon a time, America's breakfast kitchens filled with the aroma of sage-scented breakfast sausage. Today? Not so much. People think sausage is fatty. They think it must be unhealthful. They've convinced themselves that they don't have time to cook breakfast. Yet homemade sausage is actually relatively lean, especially compared to the commercial stuff. It's simple to make and impressive. It is many times better than store-bought, especially if you mix it up a day or two ahead of the time you plan to cook it, so the flavors can blend.
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By JANET GILBERT | November 18, 2007
After watching a few minutes of the nightly news, you might feel pretty ungrateful about the 2007 holiday season that kicks off with Thanksgiving. There's plenty of senseless death, destruction and wasted potential to validate that point of view. And if you have suffered a personal loss of any kind, the season can seem like a cruel, monthlong game of charades. Who wants to paste on a smile and parade through the open-house circuit, making festive chitchat with people who might not understand the depth of your pain?
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By Kathy Manweiler | January 17, 2007
It's not easy to escape cravings when you're trying to lose weight. For many people, those temptations are wide awake when night falls, and Becky Hand knows what it's like to fight the munchies after dinner. "Those kids get to bed and there's downtime, and that's when I want to eat," says Hand, a registered dietitian at SparkPeo ple.com, a diet and fitness Web site. "It is not hunger at all - it is strictly a stress reliever." Many people tell Hand that they can stick with a healthful eating plan all day, but at night they're ravenous.
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By Linda Gassenheimer | February 21, 2007
Picadillo is a popular Latin dish made with ground meat, onions, green bell pepper, tomato sauce and raisins. Using ground buffalo, now available in most supermarkets, adds a new dimension to this 10-minute, no-fuss dinner. Buffalo is a great source of lean protein, with only about 15 percent fat. There are probably as many variations of picadillo as there are people who make it. The success of this dish is the blending of sweet and savory flavors. Picadillo is usually served over rice.
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By Ericka Blount Danois | August 5, 2007
For most of her career, Mo'Nique has championed the cause of big and voluptuous women. The Baltimore native and host of VH1's Charm School and of Oxygen's Mo'Nique's F.A.T. Chance has waged a campaign to improve the image and gain acceptance for plus-size women, who are often shunned and made the objects of ridicule. Here's how she's lived out her crusade: As a stand-up comedian, the 39-year-old has manufactured plus-size humor that pokes fun at those who have a problem with her curves or skinny women, including: Recently filmed episodes of Mo'Nique's F.A.T.
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By Dave Barry | August 22, 1999
Tae-bo, Tae-bee, what's the difference?If there's one ideal that unites all Americans, it's the belief that every single one of us, regardless of ethnic background, is fat.It was not always this way. There was a time, not so long ago, when Americans did not obsess about fat. In those days, a man could be portly and still be considered attractive. The standards were also more lenient for women: Marilyn Monroe, whom nobody ever called skinny, was a major sex goddess.By today's beauty standards, of course, Marilyn Monroe was an oil tanker.
FEATURES
By Kathleen Purvis | June 16, 1999
When it comes to Father's Day presents, it's pretty much a tie. Which means you either get him another tie -- does anybody really do that anymore? -- or you get him something he can really use. Like a cookbook, of course. There are plenty of cookbooks written by men, but we're also seeing more cookbooks written for men. And we can only say: Write on."A Man and His Pan" by John Boswell (Andrews Mcmeel, $16.95). Boswell's focus is the nonstick skillet -- specifically, a 12-inch saute pan. And he gets a lot of mileage out of it. Chapters cover the range (sorry)
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By Ellen Goodman | May 28, 1999
BOSTON -- First of all, imagine a place women greet each other at the market with open arms, loving smiles and a cheerful exchange of ritual compliments:"You look wonderful! You've put on weight!"Does that sound like dialogue from fat fantasy land? Or a skit from fat-is-a-feminist-issue satire? Well, this Western fantasy was a South Pacific fact of life. In Fiji, before 1995, big was beautiful and bigger was more beautiful -- and people really did flatter each other with exclamations about weight gain.
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By SUSAN NICHOLSON | October 3, 1999
Each day of the week offers a menu aimed at a different aspect of meal planning. There's a family meal, a kids' meal aimed at youngsters tastes, a heat-and-eat meal that recycles leftovers, a budget meal that employs a cost-cutting strategy, a meatless or "less meat" dish for people who may not be strict vegetarians but are trying to cut down on meat, an express meal that requires little or no preparation, and an entertaining menu that's quick.Sunday/FamilyPrepare your own juicy roast chicken today.
FEATURES
By Kevin Cowherd | March 25, 1999
TELL ME something: Is it me or are some people just a lit-tle too sensitive these days?From the uproar caused by a certain column that ran here two weeks ago, you'd think I just passed nuclear secrets to the Chinese.To recap, the column was about a recurring problem faced by anyone who has ever joined a health club: fat guys in Speedos haunting the pool.The gist of it was that these fat guys weren't doing themselves a favor wearing these horribly unflattering swim trunks. And I asked them (politely, I thought)