Like many avid home chefs, I draw my cooking knowledge from myriad sources. My mom’s many lessons in the kitchen when I was a child (and on our phone calls today), videos and recipes on the internet, cookbooks, and advice from colleagues all influence how I cook. While drawing on all these sources helps inspire different ideas and has helped refine my point of view on food, it occasionally allows for some misinformation to slip through the cracks. We’ve all bought into a food

Even though you can’t see them, endocrine disruptors are all around you. They are invisible to the naked eye yet linked to serious health problems like obesity, reproductive disorders, developmental issues, and cancer (to name a few). Awareness of these chemicals has grown drastically over the last 20-25 years. Unfortunately, the evidence coming out of the latest research isn’t good. In fact, the problem is greater than anyone realized. Though a few steps have been taken to