After years of defensively touting “No MSG” on their menus,many Asians working in the food industry are not only fighting back against stereotyping of this heritage ingredient — they’re proudly ...

Making a recent dinner, my wife Elisabeth put together Sohla El-Waylly's “hot and tingly” smashed cucumber salad, a wisp of a recipe that combines favorite ingredients like cukes, chili crisp, salt, ...

Luckily, MSG is the secret ingredient that can upgrade the flavor of bland tomatoes, and you can use it in whatever fresh tomato dishes you're working with. Tomatoes contain a ton of ...

Sarah Hays Coomer is a Mayo Clinic and National Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach, certified personal trainer and author based in Nashville, Tennessee. She has spent nearly 20 years helping ...

Monosodium glutamate, or MSG — a food additive that is often found in Asian cuisine — has had something of a negative reputation over the last 60 years. Some food experts insist that's unfair. "To ...

For more than a century, umami—the fifth basic taste alongside sweet, salty, sour, and bitter—has helped shape how people ...

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