Eating a variety of fresh fruits and vegetables is key to maintaining a healthy diet and overall lifestyle. However, the increasing number of food-borne outbreaks related to produce and growing concern about the use of pesticides on produce have made food safety an important issue in recent years. Washing your fruits and vegetables remains one …
If your sauteed veggies taste bland, adding seasonings can enhance or even completely change the flavor. But since there are so many options and flavor combos out there, it can be tough to know what to pair with what. Check out this list if you need some inspiration! We’ll walk you through different types of …
Whether you want to keep your meal warm as you’re serving it or if you are worried about food safety, keeping your food hot is an important thing to do. Luckily, there are many easy ways to do it right in your own home. You can use your kitchen appliances or insulated containers to keep …
If you don’t have a food processor, you might find yourself skipping recipes that require you to use one. However, there are a number of different tools and techniques you can use in place of a food processor. You can do most jobs with a blender, mixer, or spice grinder. However, even if you don’t …
Eating healthy might take a little more work, but it doesn’t have to be prohibitively expensive. While it is true that often unhealthy choices are the cheapest options in the grocery store, recognize often this comes with the hidden cost of your health. With a little insight, planning and forethought, you can find ingredients that …
If your recipe indicates that it serves 4, but you need it to feed 6, how do you adjust it? Alternatively, how do you decrease the amount a recipe will make? Known as scaling, adjusting a recipe is sometimes necessary but it’s not just a matter of adding or decreasing the amount of each ingredient. …
In cooking, there are five tastes: sweet, salty, sour, bitter, and umami. The term umami, the fifth taste, was coined in 1908 by a Japanese professor, Kikunae Ikeda, but the flavor has been incorporated in food around the world for centuries. Umami adds the meaty, savory quality to many foods, and can be included in …
Spicy food is admired all over the world, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that everyone is used to it. Luckily, you too can learn to love the heat if you’re willing to put the effort in to challenge your palette with some spice! Adapting to spicy food may be hard at first, but you’ll open …
Zeng Weigang is a veteran outdoor enthusiast who entered the outdoor industry 20 years ago and brought Patagonia to China in 2006. Zeng has witnessed the development of China’s outdoor industry. This past spring, he traveled to Zhejiang, Guangdong, Guangxi, and Xinjiang and found that China’s outdoor industry has many opportunities for innovation, and that …
Is playing outdoors just a pastime? We asked the head of Patagonia China. Read More »
How you pack plays a big role in the outcome of your trip — if you’ve ever arrived at your destination only to find your suitcase splattered with the remains of a toothpaste explosion, you know this to be true! To pack for a trip, you have to organize everything you’ll need while you’re away …
