myTakes: Food & Beverage

So to make this clear, this refers mostly to dark chocolate. They apply to milk chocolate too to some extent, but in moderation. It reduces stroke risk. And improves heart health too. It lowers blood pressure. And...

I love a good kitchen gadget if it makes a task easier or more manageable than doing it the way it's been done before. These are some of my all time favorites. As far as I know, all of them can be found on Amazon. 1....

If you've ever seen any food commercial for something like the burger above, any cookbook, or any other advertisement for food, you've no doubt wondered at some point why either what you got from the store or fast food...

https://www.youtube.com/embed/V1_O5N1zlcw https://www.youtube.com/embed/7MJnm5X9NN0 Food, Inc. is a full-length documentary, talking about the consumption of unhealthy hood and the health of Americans. The YouTube video...

This is so perfect if you're craving dessert or something sweet after dinner, it's quick and easy, and little to no mess either. I've made this a few times, and it's delicious! Ingredients: 3 tbsp peanut butter (I reckon...

I believe that everyone, men and women, should learn how to cook the most basic meals, starting right in elementary school, with some assistance from Mom or Dad. I believe cooking is an important life skill, because...

High end restaurants love to up-sell their dishes. You get lured in by the fancy digs, the matching waiters with delicately draped white cloth slung over their wrists, the menu items with words you've never heard of to...

NOTE- Do not read this MyTake if you’re hungry :D Just giving you a heads up hehehe! 1. Pokeburgers When Pokemon Go was a phenomenon, a pop up burger shop in Sydney Australia (Down N’Out burgers) created Pokebugers in...

As much as I like to cook and try new things, I'm not immune to having said at some point or another, I'm not going to try that food because of...xyz, not even giving it a chance. Given that we are all such different...

Typically, if you walk down the frozen aisle at an American supermarket, then you will find a lot of meaty dishes. Many dishes emphasize meat in the picture and in the naming. Chicken parmesan. Chicken alfredo. Beef...

This is an interesting debate that talks about the price of "healthy food" and the price of "junk food". There are supporters on both sides. But I think it is critical to understand where each side is coming from. I...

I would just like to say for the purposes of my own stupid personal records, I was warned not to do this not once, not twice, not three times, but a full six times, and I still did it anyway. It's like when someone warns...

This all came about because I was watching a few episodes of an old PBS show called, "Frontier House," where they took these modern families and transported them back in time for 3 months to the frontier times in America...

People who say that a vegan diet is healthy are misinformed and really do not know what they are talking about. A vegan diet is not intrinsically healthy. It is only healthy, if one has a specific definition of "meat"...

What does meat connote to you? To many people in the West, they think of beef, pork, poultry, or seafood. To many people in Asia, Africa, and South/Central America, bugs are an extra source of animal-based food that is...