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Pop Culture Week: Peach’sicles

They're great right off the tree. But if you want a super-cooled sweet on a hot Summer day, make a popsicle. Really ripe peaches. So sweet with no added sugar. A wonderfully refreshing Way to end a hot day. Or to start one: lick your breakfast.
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Summer Squash Gratin: Sweet & Aromatic

This might be the most satisfying thing you can do with Summer Squash. It's rich but very light. It's sweet and aromatic. A perfect summer side dish for any main course, or a great main course itself. Low on calories. Lower on Glycemic Load.
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Pizza with everything fresh on it

When the Farmers Market looks like a huge crop of pizza toppings, buy veggies, toss dough, make summer's best pizza. That crust is a great platform for healthy ingredients. A great new habit waiting to replace a bad old one.
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Apricot Tart: Breakfast or Dessert?

Concentrated sweetness from very ripe, barely cooked fruit on the verge of apricot jam. Flaky, buttery luxury-in-your-mouth from your homemade pie crust. Your home smells like a very good bakery. Your slice costs 75 cents.
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Burgers for the 21st Century

Portobello Burgers. Another Way to have more vegetables and less meat in your diet. More fun and fewer calories this Labor Day. Think of it as a really big stuffed mushroom. Two giant, meaty, juicy portobellos replace the bun.
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Kohlrabi Slaw. Say what?

A very tasty cruciferous vegetable that looks like a small alien life form. Crunchy like celery root. Sweet like cabbage. Earthy like turnips. A really nice vegetable. Cheap, too. Because nobody knows what to do with it. Well, here's one good Way to enjoy it.
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Quicker Cheaper Chicken Upgrade

Put a little garlic aioli into a chicken breast and, suddenly, the kind-of-dry white meat is juicy and intensely flavorful. Aromatic. Takes just two minutes and five cents worth of my 5-minute mayo.
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80 Ways: Yogurt. Sweet as you want it.

80 recipes from traditional healthy cuisines around the world. From places and times that never heard of diabetes, overweight/obesity and cardiovascular disease epidemics. Today: A Better Way To Start Your Day. Plain yogurt as sweet as you want it.
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80 Ways: Beet the Heat

80 recipes from traditional healthy cuisines around the world. From places and times that never heard of diabetes, overweight/obesity and cardiovascular disease epidemics. Today: chilled borscht. Hot color. Cool mouthful. A GL of just 5. Deep earthy, sweet flavor.
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Olive Oil Advisory

If you use a lot of it, it's even Better than you thought. If you don't, you should. Here's a study that looks at virgin olive oil and finds it reduces the risk of stroke. Significantly. And here are a bunch of delicious Ways to get more in your diet.
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