Most cooks think roasting is the easiest of cooking methods, and sometimes they are right. Who hasn’t slathered olive oil on veggies, tossed with salt and pepper and popped them into a 400-something oven? Easy-peasy and delicious, right?  But Molly Stevens explains, explores and educates us about this technique just as she did about braising in her 2004 IACP and James Beard award winning book All About Braising.  Her newest tome, All About Roasting, is an another amazing book.

This is the time of year to include citrus fruits into just about every meal.  Oranges (including the amazing Blood Orange), lemons (especially Meyer lemons), limes (including those popular little Key limes), and grapefruits are plentiful and easily affordable.  From fruits that can be eaten out of hand, to endless ways to incorporate the flesh, juice, and peel into recipes, there are only a few rules you need to keep in mind to be successful.   

Keeping your wines at just the right drinking temperatures can be anyone’s great dilemma. Too cold and the temperature masks a wines complexities; too warm and the flavors may take a back seat to the alcohol.  The fast and easy way to solve this problem is Corkcicle.  Designed to replicate the beauty of a natural icicle, the frozen Corkcicle chills your wine from the inside out, and then maintains the perfect drinking temperature – without diluting the wine – for about 1 hour. 

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The sobering truth is that when it comes to women, heart healthy isn’t really an option.  It's a must.  When we know that more women die from heart disease than from the next three causes of death combined, including all forms of cancer, then we simply must make the changes that ensure we are doing the very best job for ourselves, just like we do for everyone else.  These recipes help you do just that.