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Spring Stew

There’s just something special about a bowl of stew that makes the heart happy at suppertime. This one-dish combination can be made from so many healthy and delicious ingredients that it’s a sure-fire winner to ease the chill of early spring evenings.

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Please pass the Ham

A perfect crowd-pleasing Easter meal If there were no such thing as ham, then I’m not sure we could have Easter at my house. Ham has been the star of our holiday table for years.

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New ‘magic beans’ produce ingredients for cancer treatments, vaccines and more

When Brian DeDecker drives past the bucolic green soybean fields en route to his childhood home in rural Illinois, his mind drifts not to the past but to the future. As a first-generation college student turned molecular biologist, DeDecker imagines a day when these humble beans, which his family has grown for generations, pack a bounty of therapeutic but hard-to-obtain natural compounds.

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