The Right Chemistry: Cooking healthier a battle of the AGEs

When it comes to taste, my mother’s Hungarian version of cholent loses out to my mother-in-law’s Romanian variety. Back when they were both still with us, I had plenty of chances to compare. Of course, at the time I didn’t know anything about “advanced glycation end products,” or indeed how such “AGEs” may accelerate aging. If instead of taste, the competition would have been about “health,” my mother’s version, which is more of a stew, would have defeated my mother-in-law’s oven-baked cholent. Read More