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Good Ol’ Texas Chili

By Amanda Hill We Texans love our chili. Everyone's recipe is a little different—whether you make it with extra jalapenos, beans, no beans, thick, thin, venison or lean beef. It's the perfect dinner option for a cold winter night. At Texas Farm Bureau, we have an annual chili lunch, hosted by the Commodity and Regulatory Activities [...]

Study: Eat lean beef to lower cholesterol

By Amanda Hill Healthy eating and improving health habits top the list of New Year's resolutions for many Texans each year. If eating a heart healthy diet tops your list for 2012, a new study by Pennsylvania State University may give you some pretty tasty motivation. The recent study, published in the American Journal of Clinical [...]

December 27, 2011|Categories: Beef, Healthy Eating|Tags: , , |0 Comments

Is that a hormone in my milk?

By Nathan Smith Milk…does it really do a body good? You might have seen the giant billboards or semi-trucks advertising the “no added hormones” line stamped across a picture of cows in a green meadow or maybe a huge pitcher of milk. No added hormones? What exactly are hormones doing in milk in the first [...]

December 13, 2011|Categories: Healthy Eating|Tags: , , , , |0 Comments

Everyone loves Texas pecans

By Nathan Smith Calling all nuts out there—pecan nuts, that is. Pecans always remind me of my grandfather, who used to sit on his porch swing, sheller in hand, passing them out to his grandchildren running by. He talked about what to look for in a ripe pecan and taught us tricks to cracking them with [...]

December 6, 2011|Categories: Specialty Crops, Texas Products|Tags: , , , , |0 Comments

The science of food

By Amanda Hill Science is an amazing thing. Think about some of the advancements we’ve made in the past 100 years: new medicines have advanced the average lifespan from 49.2 years at the turn of the century to 77.5 years in 2003; cars don’t just take us from point A to point B, but they [...]