Fall Colors Across America Fall has something magical about it when green leaves turn into brilliant yellows, oranges, reds, and golds. Whole mountainsides turn into patches of color, and quiet country roads become especially beautiful, bursting with color at every turn. Each region of the country has its own version of a colorful fall, shaped […]
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Find these in the A&F Archives next to every story in the issues for the WINTER – SPRING – SUMMER – 2026 ISSUES
Check the A&F archives next to every article for these uploads for SUMMER – FALL – HOLIDAY – WINTER – 2025 ISSUES
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Intermittent Fasting Can Improve Insulin Sensitivity For many Americans, the word fasting still conjures up images of deprivation, hunger, and impossible self-discipline. Yet modern research has transformed that perception. Intermittent fasting is not a diet in the traditional sense. It is an eating pattern that focuses less on what you eat and more on when […]
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July 4th / PATRIOTIC SALAD – Your Contribution to the neighborhood 4th of July Party can be this Patriotic Red, White, and Blue Salad with homemade lemon, garlic, mustard, and thyme vinaigrette dressing. Underneath the top layer of greens is a variety of chopped lettuces; Iceberg, Radicchio, Romaine, Celery-leaf, and Red-leaf (lettuce). The salad rim […]
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DRINKS FROM CHILDHOOD, that have vanished or are no longer popular. Is your favorite listed? Coke with Peanuts Fizzies Cragmont Black Cherry Soda Bosco TAB Cola Tang Ovaltine Diet Rite Cola Bubble-Up Jolt Sasperrilla Milk Flavored by a Straw (name?) Dad’s Root Beer (Hires + many root beer brands) Hi-C Nehi (grape, root beer, cream […]
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SO YOU SAY it’s your lover’s birthday… and those grocery story cakes are not appitizing because they are never made with love and that really shows as you take off that plastic cake cover. WELL, here is the cheat code of home-made cakes. Use a yellow cake mix (out of a box) add one more […]
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SHRIMP CREOLE – Boil a pound of shrimp in boiling water, seasoned with Old Bay seasoning. Remove when just cooked and chill to stop the cooking. -Put two Tbl spoons of EV-Olive-Oil in a large cast iron skillet (or your favorite skillet. – Dice one large onion – put in the skillet with med-heat. – […]
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A SUMMER SALAD MADE JUST AS IT SOUNDS. The corn must be farmer’s market fresh, because it is eaten without being cooked. BUT extremely fresh sweet corn is heavenly.The rest is bacon cut into 1″ squares, tomatoes cut into small wedges, Avocados cut into cubes and a vinegrette salad dressing with cilantro leaves strewn about. […]
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Art featured above is by artist Takashi Murakami. There are cities that ask you to slow down, Los Angeles is not usually one of them. Most visitors arrive expecting freeways, palm trees, movie studios, and endless sunshine. They imagine celebrity sightings, beaches stretching toward the Pacific, and glamorous evenings beneath the glow of Hollywood. […]