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  • What the New Food Guidelines Get Right — and Why This Shift Matters

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    For the first time in decades, U.S. food guidelines are moving in a direction that actually resembles how humans eat. That may sound understated, but it’s not. This update represents a meaningful and long-overdue shift away from ultra-processed, fortified foods as the foundation of “healthy eating,” and back toward real meals, food quality, and dietary

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  • New Wine, New Wineskins: Why My Work (and This Space) Changed

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    A New Thing Originally published August 27, 2020 · Updated with context in 2026 “And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the wine will burst the skins—and the wine is destroyed, and so are the skins. But new wine is for fresh wineskins.” — Mark 2:22 For months, I had

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  • Culinary Evolution

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    I used to cook for fun. For hours. I loved hosting—putting out a spread and watching people enjoy it… when they did. Sometimes I enjoyed watching them sweat because my food was so aggressively spicy. My husband (when we were still mere acquaintances) was the first person brave enough to tell me my food burned

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