• Turmeric…a great antioxidant…

  

  The golden years Turmeric: An antioxidant to add to the power-food list   Photo by Nick ...

• Szechuan Peppercorns

  

  From our friends over at SeattlePI.com.......great news!!!!  We love these peppercorns for their unique flavor, and it is what we use as our everyday pepper -- this goes in almost everything we cook! The Szechuan peppercorn is back after a long-term ban Descriptions of Szechuan peppercorns could apply to a drug as easily as a spice. The peppercorn ...

• Use Curry and Help Your Heart!

  

  (WebMD)  Curcumin, an ingredient in the curry spice turmeric, may help prevent heart failure. That's according to two new studies done on rats, not people. In both studies, researchers gave curcumin to rats. The rats then got surgery or drugs designed to put them at risk of heart failure. The rats that got curcumin showed more ...