2Hot soup for you!
BY LAURA LANGSTON
January 2005
VOLUME 20 • NUMBER 1
DEPARTMENTS
Food & Wine
2 Hot soup for you!
Defense against the season.
by Laura Langston
3 Costco a-go-go
Arts & Entertainment
19 Book Buyer’s Pick:
Pictures of Hollis Woods
20 Book previews
21 Book look
23 The Consumer
Connection
by David Horowitz
24 The Financial
Connection
by Suze Orman
COVER PHOTO:
MELISSA MOSELEY
PHOTO
CONTEST,
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You gave us your best shots:
2004 Photo Contest winners
We asked members to point and
click, and they snapped to it. The
eye-popping results are in, and
here are the winners, culled from
more than 22,000 entries sent in
by members all around the world.
What could be better than hot homemade
soup to stave off the chill of winter?
3Costco a-go-go
BY MARK E. STRODER
The challenge: Create a menu using
only ingredients from Costco. The result?
Five-star dining.
17Decorating roundup
We offer tips on organizing the contents
of your home to fit your lifestyle, plus a
furniture-buying checklist.
22Packing it in
BY T. FOSTER JONES
The long and short of being an efficient packer.
SPECIAL SECTION:
FOR YOUR HEALTH
14Aromatherapy might provide some
answers; keeping well in Mexico;
cereal makers dig whole grains; is your
doctor overlooking hearing loss; and
fitting hand protection.
INSIDE COSTCO
6Buying Smart: Healthy choices
BY PAT VOLCHOK
A heart-to-heart Q&A: Jim Romanoff, food
editor of Eating Well health magazine, praises
Costco’s variety of nutritious food choices.
12Member Services Update
Scoping out the service savings in your
Wallet; news about auto insurance; plus the
scoop on those service tables in the
wareho use.
13Web wonder
BY MARK E. STRODER
Creating your own Web site gives your
small business 24/7 exposure—and
Value Web by Affinity can help you set
up shop on the Internet at a great value.
22Postcard from paradise
BY PAT VOLCHOK
There’s nothing like a trip to the sugary
white beaches of Tahiti, Bora Bora and
Moorea to help make life’s little problems
seem far away.
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