Maura Querbes Pugh is living proof that one bad apple doesn’t spoil the entire batch – or in the case of 2020, the entire year. Despite the pandemic and subsequential quarantine, Pugh made lemonade from lemons and shared them with Shreveport via her very first cookbook: “Covid Culinary Chronicles.

Thefood choices we make have a significant impact on our overall health. Being overweight or obese is one of the biggest contributors to poor health and can be controlled with a proper diet. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that the prevalence of obesity is 18.