Potatoes. Spaghetti. Who's Cooking?

Article: Who’s Cooking? (For Health, It Matters)

Home-cooked meals are typically more healthful than those prepared at restaurants. But just how much more healthful depends on who’s doing the cooking, where the recipe comes from, and even the dishes in which the food is served.

Studies show that the biggest influence on family eating habits is the person who buys and prepares the food. These “nutritional gatekeepers,” as researchers call them, influence more than 70 percent of the foods we eat, according to a 2006 report in The Journal of the American Dietetic Association ...

Recipes: Five ways with a packet of spaghetti

1. Artichoke and mascarpone pasta

2. Spaghetti, sausages and mustard

3. Spaghetti and mussels

4. Chicken and pasta pie

5. A quick and cheap tomato and pasta soup

Recipes: New Potato Day: Eat and Plant Potatoes Today

Did you know that today is a big day for potatoes? Not only are they a featured part of most St. Patrick's Day menus, but this is also the day when potatoes are traditionally planted! Potatoes go into the ground earlier than most garden seeds, at least in the northern parts of the world ... Here are five fresh ways to eat new potatoes, which are turning up at the markets soon ...

• 1 Crème fraîche and chives

• 2 Saffron and parsley

• 3 Ginger, cumin and sesame

• 4 Honey and basil

• 5 Thyme and carrots

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