DR. PATRICIA A. FARRELL

One of the many chores in our lives, unless you have a housekeeper or a mom at your service, is the need to shop for our daily bread and other trifles at the local market. Shopping can be a chore, but it also is an opportunity to look into the lives of those shopping around us. On a recent trip to the market, it was impossible to stand on a checkout line where people had few items in their carts. Even though a serious winter storm was predicted, the store had only three lines

Cooking has always been an essential part of our lives, whether we do it for ourselves or someone else does it for us. No getting around it, we have to eat, but what we eat and how we prepare it may have more effect on our lives than we may have thought about in the past. Now, the two factors (selection of food and preparation) are receiving attention, as they should. Do you cook? Do you like to cook? What do you cook? All good questions and perhaps I can explore that a bit w