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Bread&Breakfast: Bakin’ Bacon Cornbread

February 1, 2014
Dick Sandhaus

This is what you want in your oven on a winter weekend morning. A persuasive case for eating less meat and enjoying it more. Cornbread with a thin, crackling bacon-flavored crust around a soft, light, crumbly interior. Full of tiny, crunchy flecks of bacon. I could eat this every day.

Moving Monday: The Year On The Trail

December 30, 2013
Dick Sandhaus

Three spectacular places to walk your Way to health and happiness in the New Year. Press Play. Then make a resolution. Or three. Happy New Year. Happy trails.

Slower Sunday: The Year in Slow Motion

December 29, 2013
Dick Sandhaus

Pretty much anywhere out there'll do the trick. You don't have to watch waves breaking on some exotic shore. Don't even have to watch clouds float across the sky. You just watch where you're going. So even when your feet walk briskly, you're in slow motion.

White Christmas Card

December 25, 2013
Dick Sandhaus

Even if you haven't been dreaming of it, you can Press Play for a minute of a white wonderland. May your Christmas be merry, bright, warm and tasty.

Roasted Pear-Maple Syrup Pudding Cake

November 16, 2013
Dick Sandhaus

Just in case its name doesn't say it all, let me tell you how thoroughly delicious this really is. Perfectly pure pear flavor, intensified by quick roasting. The deeply dark version of sweet from pure maple syrup. Big, mouth-filling flavor. Amazingly light but luxurious and rich.

Mexican-Italian Pizza

November 6, 2013
Dick Sandhaus

A crisp-soft-firm-gooey "pizza" with all the flavors. Sweet, tart, nutty, earthy, creamy, mildly spicy. Wildly aromatic. 14 ounces of a great thing with just 310 calories and a Glycemic Load of 14. Gluten-free. This is a great meal.

Slower Sunday: Gone with the wind

November 3, 2013
Dick Sandhaus

November 3, 2013. The slowest form of transportation on the planet. On a Slower Sunday. A good day to get through without cars or trains or planes. Go catch some. A perfect pursuit for a Sunday. Press Play.

The Veg-O-Matic of All Stretch Exercises

October 14, 2013
Dick Sandhaus

It doesn't slice or dice. But it stretches, it strengthens, it balances and gets you off your butt. It's the Quadriceps Stretch. Multi-tasking on one foot. Cost-Benefit Analysis: a lot of benefits for a minute of your time.

Vanishing point

September 11, 2013
Dick Sandhaus

You walk up 7 flights of stairs. In a parking garage in lower Manhattan. Not a big elevation gain. Not a very scenic hike. But when you walk out on to the roof, you're in a forest of giant light beams. Press Play for the perspective.

Slower Sunday: And the livin’s easy

September 1, 2013
Dick Sandhaus

Summertime. In San Francisco. Most tourists head for the Golden Gate. Or the top of Nob Hill. I go straight to the basement of the Academy of Sciences. To the tank. It's easy. Well, it looks easy. Press Play. See for yourself.