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When I was a kid, our 4th of July recipes were pretty straightforward—mostly burgers and hot dogs. But now that my parents have moved to coastal Maine, the typical 4th of July fare has gone out the window. Goodbye hot dogs, hello lobster. Lucky for lobster lovers like me, lobster is pretty inexpensive this year, and even if you don’t live on the coast, you can still find it at well-stocked grocery stores.

Here is my complete 4th of July menu with tips on how to shell a lobster...

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I first fell in love with rhubarb during a summer break from college. Rhubarb is a beast of a plant to harvest but I thought it was fun to whack at my food. And I found some delicious recipes in which to use my tangy, fresh rhubarb: Strawberry-Rhubarb Pie, Rhubarb Waffles with Rhubarb Sauce and even Rhubarb-Date Chutney to serve over Cornish game hens. If you decide to pick up some tangy rhubarb (which happens to be low in calories and full of fiber, potassium and vitamin C), check out these helpful tips....

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It’s the time of year when my friends and I are trying to get—or keep—a slim and sexy body, be it to rock my new bikini at the beach or a bridesmaid dress in my friend’s wedding. We all go about it in a different way, though none of us thinks that dieting could fog our brains, even on the sunniest day. I prefer to tack a few more miles onto a run when I’m trying to slim down. But most of my friends find it easier to cut back on how many calories they’re eating. Both methods will you get slim, but some diets may muddle your memory, according to new research...

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My poor husband. He grew up in a family full of sweet tooths, a family who always ate dessert after dinner. I, on the other hand, was raised by a mother who always had a bag of Cheetos stashed in the corner cupboard and a father who is psyched when he can get a cheese plate for dessert when we go out to dinner.

So when we first moved in together I was just plain confused when I’d watch him root around the cabinets looking for something sweet after dinner. Dessert? Every night? Really?

I could only take his pitiful pillaging for so long. I decided it was time to whip up some healthy fruit desserts....

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I have about a billion delicious summer recipes floating around in my recipe box. For me, the perfect summer recipe is fast and, ideally, cooked or at the very least enjoyed outdoors. And out of my collection, I always find a few recipes that I like to repeat during the hot summer months.

Here are a few of my favorite summer recipes (and yes, I’m starting with dessert first!)...

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When I left San Francisco to move to Vermont I left behind my terrible sea-air-corroded grill on my fire escape. My first purchase in my new home was a shiny new grill. I was thrilled because grilling is my favorite way to cook. So of course I get into all of the holidays that are about grilling: Memorial Day, Labor Day, July 4th and Father’s Day.

This year we included six grill-roasting recipes in our May/June issue of EatingWell that are awesome. The idea of grill roasting is that you cook your food on the grill over indirect heat rather than over searing flames. Why do this? It allows you to cook big thick roasts or whole birds without scorching them on the outside and leaving them raw inside.

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A few weeks ago I blogged about my obsession with 100-calorie cookies. But what I didn’t tell you then is that I can never wait for the baked cookies to come out of the oven—I almost always taste the dough.

OK, so I don’t think that the Emily Posts of the world care about me eating raw cookie dough straight out of the mixing bowl, but anyone who knows anything about food safety might. Although nothing you can do will ever guarantee 100 percent protection against foodborne illness, there are some simple precautions that help to reduce your risk. (Ahem, like not eating raw cookie dough.) Get the basics of food safety here...

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