【推荐1】5 Uses for Leftover Fruit Peels

Eating fruit is one of the healthiest eating habits that most of us follow.    1    No, they aren’t. The skins and peels of fruit are full of flavor and nutrition, and these waste products actually have a lot to offer.

Clean greasy metal.

Lemon is a citrus fruit (柑橘类水果). It contains acid. You can use lemon to clean metals with grease (油脂). You can use lemon to reduce the effect of the oxidation (氧化) process. Spread salt or baking soda on the affected area and then rub it with lemon.    2    

Clean your kettle.

Tea kettles get mineral deposits (沉积) to build up in them.    3    Then, close the heat and let it settle for an hour. After that, rinse (冲洗) it off.

Make fruit zest(水果外皮).

Zest is the outer layer of fruits. Citrus fruits like lemon, orange, lime, etc. can be used to add flavor to other food products or food items. You can also store it in the frost for future use. It gives all your dishes a sweet flavor and taste.

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You can use fruit peels to make brown sugar soft. You need to cover the sugar with lemon peel. Make sure that it contains some lemon juice and pith (橙子等外皮之下的海绵层，中果皮).

Refresh your skin.

    5    They refresh your skin and give it a new look. You can rub orange or grapefruit peel and then rinse in warm water.

【推荐2】Most people will tell you that without a cup of coffee in the morning, they cannot function. Coffee is a good drink when consumed in right amount.     1    

A legend says that Kaldi, an Ethiopian, discovered his goats enjoy eating coffee plants. Curious, he tasted the leaves and began to dance around. A passing monk witnessed the scene and took some back to his fellow monks. Later that night, the monks experienced extreme inspiration.     2     Soon Arabia started roasting coffee beans. By 1000 A.D., Muslims were drinking coffee to stay awake. A merchant from Venice introduced coffee to Europe in 1615. By 1696, the Dutch started growing the coffee bush in Java. By 1723, coffee plants were introduced to the Americas. Today, coffee is the most popular drink in the world.

Caffeine is the major chemical in coffee. Caffeine poisoning can occur if more than 400 milligrams of caffeine is drunk in a short period, which is about four to five cups of coffee.     3     So it should be avoided before bed.

    4     Studies have shown that it helps cognitive skills in elderly women. Women who drank three cups of coffee daily scored higher on memory tests than women who drank one cup of coffee.

Large amounts of coffee can cause nervousness, worries and heartburn. However, if mixed with milk, it is fine.     5     The more you drink, the more you depend on it. For some people, just one cup of coffee a day is OK.

【推荐3】If a list was to be made about places that most people would like to visit before their death, Venice would beat the very top of the list. This ancient city with its rich history not only gives you a beautiful holiday destination, but true taste of Italian Cuisine. Here is a list of some of the best restaurants in Venice.

Quadri

Some travel advisers would term Quadri as the only fine dining restaurant located in Piazza San Marco. This might have contributed to it winning the Michelin Star Award in 2012. It offers you a variety of dishes but specializes most on fish and desserts. To top it, all the view from this restaurant is breathtaking.

Alle Testiere

With a sitting space of only 22 people at a time, this is the perfect restaurant for you if you wish to enjoy your meal away from the crowd. With a price range of less than $100 per person, you’ll be able to enjoy Chef Bruno’s delicacy. What makes this restaurant so special is that the Chef prepares his meals with what is fresh in the market that day.

Antico Martini

A traveler magazine ranks it as one of the top dining restaurants to visit in Venice. Established in 1720, its 300 years of history is enough to tempt any tourist. However, its food does not disappoint and its fine dining rooms conceal (掩盖) their age with a modern look. The menu offers visitor different types of fresh fish or you can choose the traditional Venetian cuisine meals accompanied by seasonal vegetables.

Impronta Cafe

If you prefer a modern dinning setting, then this should be your restaurant of choice. In this restaurant, you can get all your favorite food that you enjoy at home while still enjoying the beauty of Venice. Their sandwiches are very good and their salad bar is unmatched by any other restaurant in Venice.

【推荐1】The Kind Diet

Alicia Silverstone’s The Kind Diet is a cookbook and more. The book is filled with vegan lifestyle advice and lots of information on healthy eating. It is a good choice for parents who want to live a vegan life. And the recipes are great. We make several of them, including rustic pasta, vegetable couscous and peanut butter cups, on a regular basis. The food is kid-friendly and the ingredients are easy to gain.

The Joy of Vegan Baking

It is a peat cookbook for a family who loves baking and making meals together. It will surprise any diner who thinks vegan food includes just broccoli and tofu. This cookbook includes 150 recipes, many of which parents can easily make for their kids. Besides, being a dessert cookbook, The Joy of Vegan Baking also provides other healthier treats and plenty of recipes for baking beginners.

The Modern Vegetarian Kitchen

This book is divided into well-planned parts such as soups, salads and pasta dishes, and further divided according to seasonal ingredients. The recipes do not cost you too much time. They use healthy, whole-foods based ingredients. I have used this cookbook for every one of my kids birthday parties.

Veganomicon: The Ultimate Vegan Cookbook

Isa Chandra Moskowitz and Terry Hope Romero are the authors of the book. They enjoy great fame in the vegan food world for their excellent cooking skills. They create recipes from different cultures. This book includes tips for preparing and replacing ingredients and all useful information for busy vegan parents who don’t have all day to cook.

【推荐2】There’s nothing quite like cooking over my gas stove with beautiful blue flame, so quickly adjusted and so suited to its purpose that when things run smoothly in life, we say we are “cooking with gas”.

But in recent years environmentalists have been warning that gas stoves are bad for the climate and not so great for our health, either. New studies published this year have heightened health worries about poisonous fumes (烟气) in our kitchens. Is the evidence sufficient to shift our cooking habits?

The big surprise in one new study, conducted by environmental scientists at Stanford University, is the amount of unburned gas that leaks into kitchens when a stove is off. They found that more than three quarters of methane (甲烷) that escapes from a stove does so when it is not in use, most likely through imperfect pipe fittings. Second, there are the pollutants created by burning when a stove is on, most notably nitrogen oxides, which can upset the lungs.

Drew Michanowicz, a senior scientist at PSE Healthy Energy, a nonprofit research and policy group, said, “A lot of us work at home now. We take about 20, 000 breaths a day, and my stove is like 10 feel away from me. What else is in natural gas?” Michanowicz also frets that as more people weatherize their homes and close windows, they are reducing air exchange, which means indoor pollution will be worse.

Not surprisingly, the American Gas Association has criticized both studies, saying the levels of VOCs found in the Boston study are “reassuringly low”.

What is the average home cook to make of all this. They might follow Michanowicz, who bought an induction burner (电磁炉) and does much of his cooking on it. As for me, I’m making some changes. I’ve switched to an electric kettle for boiling water, and despite its annoying noise, I now use the exhaust hood (吸油烟机) over my stove-something only about 25 to 40 percent of people say they do. And weather permitting, I’ll open a window.

【推荐3】Hole-in-the-wall restaurants (苍蝇小馆) are rising in popularity in China. Recently, the “hole-in-the-wall” topic appeared on Sina Weibo, leading to discussions and attracting 67, 000 reading views.

According to Hubei Daily, hole-in-the-wall restaurants focus more on delicious food over decor (室内装潢) or service. Now, hole-in-the-wall restaurants are often found in the corners of small lanes and alleys (小巷) in different parts of a city. The most popular hole-in-the-wall restaurants usually have a history of more than 10 years and are run as family businesses.

A university student, Zhou, living in Wuhan, tried a hole-in-the-wall restaurant with her friend after other friends recommended it to her. She ordered 3 dishes, which only cost 64 yuan. “The food tastes good, and it's cheap,” she told Hubei Daily.

Wang Hongjie, a 16-year-old from Chengdu, likes the experience of eating at hole-in-the-wall restaurants. “Due to the limited space, diners at small-in-the-hole restaurants usually need to eat meals with strangers at the same table. This gives people the chance to talk with each other, creating a sense of hustle and bustle (烟火气),” she said. “But at internet-famous restaurants, diners just quietly enjoy their meals. It’s boring.”

Even so, Zou Zhiping, a professor at Hubei University of Economics, said that due to resource limitations as well as a lack of food safety awareness, hygiene (卫生) and food safety issues are more common at hole-in-the-wall restaurants. To solve these problems, Zousuggested that the local government provide training and support for these restaurants.