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The Rhubarb Awakens

It’s just starting to pop up in Central Oregon gardens. Here’s how to use it, beyond dessert

Ari LeVaux, Flash in the PanMay 8, 2019May 24, 2024

During the heyday of the Silk Road, dried rhubarb root was at times more expensive than cinnamon or opium. Marco Polo went searching in northwest China for specimens that could thrive in Europe. A powerful laxative, rhubarb was a medicine long before it was a food. Half a century after Polo, the Spanish ambassador to […]

Food & Drink

Early Resolve

You could TRY to stick to those New Year’s resolutions—but you can also do better about avoiding temptation now

Ari LevauxNovember 28, 2018May 19, 2025

Year after year, in survey after survey, the most popular New Year’s resolutions relate to diet, exercise and weight loss. It’s probably no coincidence that we make these resolutions after the damage is done, at the end of holidays. Resolving to turn the ship around is a healthy response to the feeling of waking up […]

Food & Drink

Shifting To Spring

The change from winter to spring also means a change in eating habits

The Source StaffMarch 20, 2014December 7, 2024

Oh sure, beefy sandwiches, hearty stews and stout beers are perfect food to hibernate from a February snowstorm. But springtime is an entirely different menu—less snowman physique, more stick-figure, bikini body fine. From sustenance steak to springtime salads: New to Bend, Salud! (431 NW Franklin Ave. Suite 150), has proven a welcome and much-needed addition […]

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