Eating

Fit for the Royal Wedding. If you're watching it on TV. Another Better Cheaper kitchen revelation. You can make them yourself. And you can make them Better than Thomas'. For a fraction of the store-bought cost.

Maybe it's just the timing. Or maybe it's the actual flavor. After a long winter, they taste really fresh and bright. The way the first really great July tomatoes taste like summer. A month from now, they'll be gone. Try them now in this quinoa salad.

Well this was another eye-opener for me. Homemade mayonnaise. Way Better and Cheaper than anything you can buy. Good enough to savor slowly as a dip for raw vegetables. Only five minutes to make a batch.

Wow. Lots of mail yesterday and Sunday from subscribers who read or heard about "Is Sugar Toxic?" in the New York Times Magazine. If you missed the article, here's a link, a summary and a list of truly tasty ways to reduce your sugar consumption.

Whether you're leaving Egypt in a big hurry or you just want to make a great flatbread in a few minutes. Delicious and easy because it's got olive oil in it. Infinitely better than those square things that come in a box. Good enough to serve without Passover.n

This isn't really about the eggs or the salmon. It's about their Vitamin D. One of the few things you can't get enough of from a healthy diet. But it's something your skin synthesizes when it's exposed to sunlight. Ten minutes a day during Spring and Summer may do the trick for the whole year.

Takes about 10 minutes of preparation. Takes another twenty minutes before your home begins to smell like chocolate bread pudding. Which I now believe is the way every home wants to smell. Making this is easy. Waiting for it to bake is tough.

Not a joke. This is profoundly great bread. Without kneading dough. Really. No kneading. Just 30 seconds of stirring. Because sometimes you just feel like eating a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. When you're out hiking. Melts in your mouth, not your backpack.