Food & Wine

This is the oil boom that everyone's talking about.

I see it everywhere... in magazines, on the front page of USA Today, and from concerned readers filling up our inbox. But it's probably not the oil boom you're thinking of...

The other day, a news headline claiming that "low-fat dairy intake may raise Parkinson's risk" caught my attention.

The study, run out of Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston, analyzed data from about 129,000 participants over a 25-year study. In that time, a little more than 1,000 participants developed Parkinson's.

I'm no ordinary wine snob...

True, I love wine.

It's too good to be true.

Last fall, we told you about the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)ordering new food labels to appear on pre-packaged foods. The big deal about that is manufacturers must now include "added sugars" to the labels so folks can see exactly how much of the sweet stuff is naturally occurring and how much is added.

"Real men don't drink soy"...

That line opened one of the most popular tips I've ever given in my Retirement Millionaire monthly letter.

Last month, a late freeze wiped out as much as 80% of Georgia's blueberry crop. According to Georgia Agriculture Commissioner Gary Black (emphasis added):

We saw blueberry fields that had the potential to be the biggest and best crop of Georgia's production history that you would now not be able to find enough blueberries that survived the cold to make one pie.

You or one of your closest two friends are likely in this group...

It's an epidemic that is putting one out of three Americans at risk... and claiming hundreds of thousands of American lives each year...

If it's a Saturday in the spring, I'm probably hitting the local farmer's markets...

I love buying fresh produce when it's in season. I'll even exchange what I grow in my garden – like blackberries, raspberries, peaches, rhubarb, tomatoes, and herbs – for anything I don't grow.

One of our favorite fruits just landed on the "Dirty Dozen" list...

Last week, the Environmental Working Group (EWG) released this year's list of their findings for foods that are most contaminated by pesticides. The top 12 offenders receive the label of the "Dirty Dozen."

A few years ago, my friend Porter Stansberry tried to poison me.

I was down in Miami visiting him when he decided to cook us breakfast. Coming back into the kitchen for another cup of coffee, I found him cooking eggs and black beans in a nonstick pan... and using a metal fork to stir and flip the food.