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Here’s a fun fact: According to study results presented at the 2009 annual meeting of the American Physiological

Debunking common myths about cholesterol and its health effects.

Pesticides used around the house to keep harmful critters at bay are, for the most part, safer than they’ve been in the past. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reports that some organophosphates and carbamates, extremely harmful neurotoxins, are being phased out of home pesticides because of widespread concerns about their impact on people, especially infants and children.

Pizza is one of those fail-safe, crowd-pleasing foods: fun, easy to cook, and endlessly versatile. Combine those

1. Know your heat. Cooking times are just guidelines; depending on your grill, your pie might take more or less time.

Serves 4 (makes one 9-inch pizza) / I like to call the squash mixture “squasage”—first, because I can’t resist a pun,

Serves 4 (makes one 10-inch pizza) / This pie has great flavor hooks: sweet, sour, salty. The recipe may yield more

Serves 8 (makes two 10-inch pizzas) / This is a riff on the flavors of Provence, especially if you use niçoise olives.

Makes 16 / Citrus-flavored, bite-size appetizers. Surprisingly, these bite-size snacks are cooked on the grill, a great solution to having an overcrowded oven.