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5 Foods That May Help Shape Your Spring Body

New Year’s Resolutions get pushed to the back burner more easily than they are embraced. They tend to scream for attention again in the spring, and for good reason. Research has shown, again and again, that we are in a far better frame of mind to adopt new lifestyle habits in the spring than we… Continue reading 5 Foods That May Help Shape Your Spring Body

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5 Foods That Were Invented in the US

What do you get when and Englishman living in Massachusetts develops the first iconic chocolate bar for baking? German chocolate. The year was 1852. The man was Sam German. He developed the sweet chocolate bar for Baker’s Chocolate Company. Here are 4 more foods you may or may not know were created in the United… Continue reading 5 Foods That Were Invented in the US

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Cobb Salad, Once Upon a Midnight Snack

Main course salads are over 100 years old. Cobb Salad and Caesar Salad became the first salads to be served as a main dish beginning sometime between the 1920’s and 1930’s. Both share a similar origin story, one rooted in pure serendipity. Both attracted the attention of the Hollywood elite. As a matter of fact,… Continue reading Cobb Salad, Once Upon a Midnight Snack