Author: James Martin
An amendment suddenly got tacked onto the House version of the bill, although the new wording had nothing to do with dairy. The language called for legalizing the use of strips that test drugs for fentanyl, a potent synthetic opioid fueling a wave of fatal overdoses across Georgia and the U.S.The amendment, said Sen. Jen Jordan, an Atlanta Democrat who sponsored it, was “a commonsense solution to save lives.”The revised milk bill passed overwhelmingly on the last day of the General Assembly session. If the bill doesn’t draw a veto from Republican Gov. Brian Kemp, Georgia will join a growing…
“We find ways to criticize ourselves when we’re already having a hard time,” Brown said. Home cooking is not “anything like a restaurant chef or a person on Instagram trying to create content so that the algorithm will notice them.” Unless your family is paying you for the act of making them food, the pressure doesn’t need to be so great.Instead of beating ourselves up over what we think a “good cook” should be, Brown encourages us to think of what is “good enough” instead and reframe our approach to the process (and yes, the work) of cooking with a…
Big ol’ salads work for me, but so does this sandwich, with its crispy and vibrant, mustardy cauliflower, and gooey cheese and spinach. It is definitely not the “roasted vegetable sandwich” that will make any old-school vegetarian cringe.Chop cauliflower, roast, then sprinkle with cheese. Scoop into pitas.If you’re doing meal prep, you can roast the cauliflower ahead of time and store it, covered, in the fridge for a few days until you’re ready to make sandwiches.Makes 2 or 3 sandwichesIngredients1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil1 tablespoon Dijon mustard2 teaspoons fine sea salt1 cup shredded sharp white cheddar2 or 3 white or…
Editor’s Note: This recipe is featured in the CNN story “Feeling cooking burnout? Let yourself off the hook with these ‘good enough’ strategies.” Leanne Brown is the author of “Good Enough: A Cookbook.” CNN — It has taken maturity to embrace the glorious simplicity of this kind of dinner. My inner critic is prone to telling me that it’s not creative enough or new enough or whatever overachieving mark you might expect from a perfectionist fantasy. But this stew is made of pantry staples, comes together in 20 minutes, and is delicious, nourishing and balanced. It’s a dream of a…
CNN — A leaked draft of a majority opinion says the US Supreme Court is set to overturn Roe v. Wade, the case that established the federal right to an abortion, meaning access to medication abortion may be more important than ever. Some states have restricted the practice, but in December, the US Food and Drug Administration relaxed certain federal regulations on what is now the most commonly used abortion method in the United States. What is medication abortion? Medication abortion, also known as abortion with pills or medical abortion, is a method by which someone ends their pregnancy by…
Cases are trending up in most states and have increased by more than 50% compared with the previous week in Washington, Mississippi, Georgia, Maine, Hawaii, South Dakota, Nevada and Montana. In New York, more than a quarter of the state’s population is in a county with a “high” Covid-19 community level, where the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends indoor masking.Average daily hospitalizations are up about 10% since last week, according to data collected by the US Department of Health and Human Services.The culprit this time appears to be a spinoff of Omicron’s BA.2 subvariant called BA.2.12.1, which…
“Widespread vaccine- and infection-induced immunity, combined with the availability of effective therapeutics, could blunt the effects of future outbreaks. Nonetheless, it is time to accept that the presence of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, is the new normal. It will likely circulate globally for the foreseeable future, taking its place alongside other common respiratory viruses such as influenza. And it likely will require similar annual consideration for vaccine composition updates,” Dr. Peter Marks, director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research; Principal Deputy Commissioner Dr. Janet Woodcock; and new FDA Commissioner Dr. Robert Califf wrote in a…
Swiss police have seized more than 500kg of cocaine from a shipment of coffee beans delivered to a Nespresso plant.Workers at the plant in Romont, in the western Swiss canton of Fribourg, alerted authorities to a mysterious white powder found in sacks of coffee beans, police said.Staff at the coffee capsule maker, owned by Swiss food giant Nestle, “found an undetermined white substance when they unloaded the freshly delivered sacks of coffee beans”, Fribourg police said on Thursday.Police analysis determined the substance was cocaine. A search of five shipping containers “delivered the same day by train allowed for the seizure…
You don’t have to think or feel this way, thanks to a flexible personal finance approach called conscious spending. “Unlike a budget, which looks backward, a conscious spending plan allows you to look forward,” said Ramit Sethi, author of best-selling “I Will Teach You To Be Rich” and CEO of the eponymous blog. “Conscious spending is all about spending extravagantly on the things you love, as long as you cut costs mercilessly on the things you don’t. It’s not about restriction. It’s about being intentional with your money, and then spending on the things you love guilt-free.” That doesn’t mean…
The convenience store chain McColl’s has said it is increasingly likely to call in administrators as it battles to secure a rescue deal with 16,000 jobs in the balance.The UK-listed retailer, which has more than 1,100 small shops around the UK including about 250 Morrisons Daily outlets and a number of Martin’s, said any rescue was likely to result in “little or no value” being attributed to its shares.McColl’s traces its roots back to 1901 when a Scottish footballer, Robert Smyth McColl, opened the first RS McColl in Glasgow. The modern business began in 1973 as a vending machine operator…