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What makes a baked potato so much better than a raw one? It's umami, the fifth sense that describes savory flavors. Growing Bolder food and wine guru Mark Rodriguez explains how the Japanese have been talking about this fifth flavor for 100 years.
When Janice Stillman became the first female editor of The Old Farmer's Almanac, she took over a publication that George Washington helped launch. Find out why she says it's still relevant today.
This former emergency room physician says America's version of preventative medicine is little more than early-detection.
I asked the group in the last blog if anyone knew what the fifth flavor was....As you may remember, the first four are sour, sweet, salty and bitter. The Fifth taste ( not to be confused with the Fifth Element, a movie with Bruce Willis) is called Umami. I learned about this from my good friend Tim Hanni, a Master of Wine and a Master Sommelier ( I think there are only two or three in the...
A Dutch woman who reached 115 years of age and remained mentally sharp throughout life had a healthy brain when she died. The new study suggests Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia are not inevitable, as had been suspected.