Smart Bites

By Anne Palumbo   As winter drags on, many of us slump into a winter funk. Me? I’ve taken whining to an indecent level

By Anne Palumbo Years ago, spaghetti squash and I got off to a rocky start. It refused to yield to my knife; I got

By Anne Palumbo My love affair with farro began at first bite. Nutty and satisfyingly chewy, farro soon became my favorite whole grain, finding

By Anne Palumbo Even though Americans eat more potatoes than any other vegetable, a good many of us don’t. Worried about carbs and calories,

By Anne Palumbo Now that peak hot dog season is in full swing—with Americans consuming 7 billion hot dogs from Memorial Day to Labor

By Anne Palumbo Some vegetables need to be tamed, and feisty rhubarb is one of them. It’s barely edible raw, it looks like celery,

By Anne Palumbo Pity the poor peanut. Despite being America’s most popular nut, peanuts rarely get the nutritional shout-out its trendier cousins get. Perhaps

By Anne Palumbo From meal-flavored cocktails to hybrid snacks, premium bottled waters to soothing soups, the predictions are out for what we will eat

By Anne Palumbo I never liked spinach as a kid, despite my crush on Popeye. But now that I have more candles on my

By Anne Palumbo Americans purchase and consume more flour during December than any other month, according to the research elves at Fleischmann’s Yeast and