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This recipe is one of Slate’s 10 Best Recipes of 2025. When autumn comes, I turn to the mild and buttery flesh of delicata squash to grant me a gradual transition to the sweeter, starchier vegetable ...

Quinoa is a type of edible seed that comes in a variety of colors, including black, red, yellow and white, according to Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. "Though quinoa is technically a seed, ...

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