BALANCED NUTRITION TO ENHANCE FERTILITY (Part 2) | Black Watermelon Seeds

“Filter?” Moko asks, motioning to the drip-coffee machine—a rarity in the city’s classic sidewalk cafés. Typically, she will have the coffee brewed before I get there, but because it’s still early, she flips the switch as soon as I give her the go-ahead. My stomach is growling, too, but a lack of urgency is perhaps the place’s only typically Parisian element—one I remember every time I come in under-caffeinated or very hungry. While it’s usually quiet this early on a weekday—there are generally a few people parked behind a laptop, a business meeting or two taking place, and, increasingly, a table of tourists photographing their egg on a sourdough waffle—today, Moko is furiously frothing noisettes and mixing batter, while Omar is preparing his mise en place. I feel bad about interrupting them, but I eye someone eating what looks like a bowl of granola with yogurt and point it out to Moko across the room.

An outing to the Limelight Aspen never seems complete without its signature thin-crust pizza, and diners at the brand-new Snowmass spot have even more reasons to try a pie: only three of the same pizzas from the Limelight Aspen are on the menu. Sample new topping combos (meatball, Greek) to pair with power greens. I was skeptical when our server suggested it, but the beautifully composed bowl delivers substance: a pile of arugula and baby spinach encircled by piles of fluffy quinoa, roasted pumpkinseeds, crispy garbanzo beans, carrot, cucumber and green beans to toss together with Champagne vinaigrette.

Denver Licensed clinical social worker Jamie Burke has long considered baking a form of personal therapy; at first, sharing delicious treats with friends was just a happy bonus. She found so much joy in rolling out all-butter pie crusts and scooping cookie dough, however, that she started selling her wares at area markets under the Pie Bird name in 2012. Two years later, Burke took her sweet side hustle into a commissary kitchen so she could produce larger volumes of her signature chocolate tarts and mini apple pies for area coffeeshops (selling to retail outlets is not allowed under the CFA). Sounds like a success story, right? And it was—until Burke realized, nine months into the change, that she actually found the act of baking at home to be far more soul nourishing, not to mention convenient. “I like making things to sell directly to families, and scheduling time at the commissary was so hard,” she says. Nowadays, Pie Bird once again operates out of Burke’s Capitol Hill kitchen. And while that means no more goat cheese tarts, thanks to CFA restrictions against items that require refrigeration, you can still indulge in some self-care of your own with Pie Bird’s fudgy caramel-and-peanut-butter-swirled brownies, sea-salt-sprinkled dark chocolate chip cookies, and other comforting confections.How To Buy: Check Burke’s website for the current menu (from $20 for 13 cookies to $28 for a nine-by-13-inch pan of brownies), and order through the contact form. Burke provides free home delivery to Denver residents.

He looked at times joyful and at times exhausted, saying he had been up at 4 a.m. discussing the farm’s future with Eda. The Mullers still care for Adreveno, now 95, and his wife, who is 90.

Bake 17-20 minutes or until seeds are golden brown and crispy. Remove from the oven and allow to cool slightly before eating.

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Set the oven at 150C/gas mark 2. Line a baking sheet, measuring approximately 40cm x 28cm, with baking parchment. Put the plain flour in a mixing bowl, then add the rolled oats, 5g of sea salt, the sesame, pumpkin and sunflower seeds, then stir in the groundnut oil and 150ml of boiling water. Bring the ingredients together with your hands to form a ball of seed-freckled dough, then transfer to the parchment-lined baking sheet.

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If overcast and chilly: Start with a big bowl of soup. Skip the turkey chili for chicken tortilla: it’s complex, well-spiced, and bobbing with lots of shredded chicken. The side dish of crispy tortilla batons for adding at whim is bonus. NEST serves classic post-skiing fare (tacos with short rib or grilled shrimp, a burger, club sandwich), but the breakout star is a bahn mi with yuzu-roasted pork and pickled vegetables on chewy baguette.

Rathore’s real goal, though, is to see it growing in places like India, where he grew up; places where a lot of people aren’t eating well. “A lot of these countries that do suffer from malnutrition are also cotton producers,” he says. “So I think that those countries may benefit much more from this technology.” China and India are the world’s two top cotton-growing countries.

When it comes to watermelons, chances are you’re wasting perfectly good food every time you take a juicy bite. First, the white part of the rind is totally edible. You can chop it up to throw in a stir-fry or pickle the rind for a delicious snack. But the real health surprise comes within the peskiest part of a watermelon—the seeds. Watermelon seeds have almost every nutrient you can name—protein, healthy fats, vitamins, and minerals, says Elizabeth Somer, R.D.N., the author of Eat Your Way to Happiness. "Why toss away something that’s so good for you when they taste great?" she says. "The seeds are rich in vitamin E—one of the nutrients many people don’t get enough of—and phytonutrients, which some tend to be lacking in." Plus, they add visual appeal and crunch to dishes, she points out. (Check out this genius gadget that slices watermelon mess-free.)