CEDRD Nutrition

What does love taste like? Maybe you have never contemplated a question like that, and thought love was something you feel.   Yes, a taste can remind you of feelings of love, but I am talking about actually tasting it.   It’s this sense of actually experiencing the energy the person preparing that food put into it.   For me this answer is easy: oatmeal cookies.   Not just anyone’s oatmeal cookies, but Nana’s made from scratch, prepared with love oatmeal cookies.   I lost my Nana this past Monday at the age of 94 from complications with dementia.   She hadn’t baked in years, but our family still talks about her meals like they were yesterday.   Even while in the ICU last week, when the nurse asked Nana how she and my Poppy have been together for almost 75 years, she simply replied, “Because I love him… and I’m a good cook”. Nana wasn’t just a good cook, she was magical.   No one could replicate her breads and rolls no matter how hard they tried.   Fresh out of the oven, a har