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About a month ago, we asked you to send us your burning barbecue questions with the promise that the five best would be personally answered by grilling expert Steven Raichlen. The readers who asked those five questions also win an autographed copy of his new book Planet Barbecue!

We picked our favorites, and we’re posting them–along with Raichlen’s answers–every day this week. So far, we’ve learned the best way to grill chicken and what wood chip flavors are best for what meats. Today, cdziuba‘s question:

Is it ever OK to use spray on the grill, like PAM, or Olive Oil PAM? How do you keep foods from sticking to the grill?

Read more: Ask a Grillmaster: How Do You Keep Food from Sticking to the Grill?

Fueling your body during an emergency is very different from your everyday diet. Because you’ll probably expend more energy than you normally would, you should eat high-energy, high-protein foods. And because you have a limited supply, the higher-quality foods you eat–and the less of them–the better. “In a disaster or an emergency you want those calories,” says Barry Swanson, a food scientist at Washington State University . “You want some nutrients and some fiber—something to keep your diet normal.”

Read more here: The top foods you should keep in case of an emergency

If hefty price tags, long lines and marginal quality hadn’t convinced you to avoid eating concessions at professional sporting events, an ESPN report might do the job.

The network recently compiled a list of 2009 health-inspection reports from every major professional sports venue (MLB, NFL, NHL and NBA) in North America and the results were startling.

Health inspectors found rodent droppings, improper hand-washing, bacterial growth, poor refrigeration, expired meat and the presence of toxic material — and those were just the “critical violations.” More than half of the vendors were cited for such violations at one-third of the venues. And at two stadiums, Tropicana Field in Tampa and the Verizon Center in Washington, D.C., inspectors cited all of the vendors for critical violations.

Read more here: Report on stadium food finds bad conditions

I just finished booking a week-long summer vacation at the beach, and I can’t wait! But a week at the beach also means a week in a bikini. I’m not sure which is going to be the bigger challenge—finding a week’s worth of bikinis that I actually like or making my body bikini-worthy.

Read more here: Fill up on these 5 fresh summer foods for a bikini body

Find out how to freeze and store specific foods.

Read more here: Food Storage

Some of your favorite diet foods — turkey burgers, granola, yogurt, and more — are shockingly high in calories and fat. Here’s how to recognize 10 common fat traps.

Read more here: 10 Diet Foods That Make You Fat

Last July 4, Joey Chestnut earned his third consecutive victory in Coney Island’s Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest—the gustatory champ downed 68 hot dogs in 10 minutes. That jaw-dropping stat is made scarier still when you realize that Chestnut consumed over 20,000 calories in that time. That’s a whole day’s worth of calories … per minute.

Read more here: Best & Worst BBQ Foods

If you’re saving food in plastic bags, be sure to follow the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Food and Drug Administration guidelines for safe storage. Frozen foods can be stored indefinitely, but the flavor can change when food is stored past the time limits below.

Read more here: How Long Can You Refrigerate or Freeze Food?

If you are what you eat, then I should weigh-in at under $1 a pound.

That’s because, as a general rule of thumb, I try to only buy foodstuffs that costs under a buck per pound. Under $1 a pound, year-round — that’s my grocery shopping mantra.

It’s not just because I’m a world-class penny-pincher and smart shopper; believe it or not, it’s also about eating healthier. When you look at the USDA’s “food pyramid,” many of the things we should be eating the most of — grains, legumes, fruits, and vegetables — happen to cost the least.

Read more here: 50 healthy foods for under $1 a pound