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This Month’s Specials

We feature 100s of items on sale every month in our flier. See what’s on sale this month.

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What’s Cooking

25+ years of recipe archives from our newsletter

S3: Simplest Squash Soup My wife makes a pot of this probably 3-4 times a month all during the…

1 Oven / 2 Sheet Pans When the weather starts to get colder, on Sunday nights, I load two sheet pans…

Dan Dan Noodles In my informal poll of Americans, maybe 10% know what Dan Dan noodles are. That’s…

Traditional Chopped Salad If any of you, my dear readers, have a connection to Lebanon, Israel, or Turkey,…

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A Healthy Dose

Herbs Against Acne (2024 edition) We cover this same topic every decade, but it’s always new, because there’s always a…

Bergamot & Artichoke for Cholesterol Bergamot is a citrus tree, native to Italy. Its fruit is green and wrinkly and…

Natural Medicine for Depression This article could be a dozen pages long. Let’s keep it to two. To do…

Beyond Yogurt: Other Fermented Foods for Health & Delight First, you have to get over the idea that “bacteria” is a dirty word. Yes, there…

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Staff Picks

Three Twins ice cream novelties | Dave C. “I’m excited about these new organic sundae cones and ice cream sandwiches from Three Twins…

Big Spoon Roasters Pistachio Crunch Butter Likes “This is an almond butter with pistachio chunks in it. It’s a G.O.A.T. food. That means…

Ruby recommends: Organic Bulk Dried Jaq Fruit: “It has a really interesting taste, it tastes almost caramel-y to me, like a cross…

Rakhi Recommends: Sunrise Energy Bites “They’re a very good breakfast, they’re also a snack… no, I don’t have them for…

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Of Note

WHAT IS A HEALTH FOOD STORE (IN 2024)?

When my mother opened Debra’s Natural Gourmet in 1989, “Health Food Store” was code for “No chocolate, gluey spaghetti, bitter fake meats, joyless Halloween, and weird birthday cake probably made”.