Elaine Magee, MPH, RD, is the author of 25 books on nutrition and cooking, including Comfort Classics: Hearty Favorites Made Healthy (a Barnes & Noble Bargain Book also available on Amazon). She is based in Pleasant Hill, California, and wrote the nationally syndicated column “The Recipe Doctor” for 10 years.
Many of us have fond memories of Mom or Grandma spending hours in the kitchen slicing veggies, trimming cuts of…