Well Being
Enjoy a healthier lifestyle with better food choices
Chocolate, Food of the Gods (and you too)
by Olivia Maria Braida – As a botanical artist, traveler and lover of the taste of chocolate, my talent and taste buds come together when I work on a series of paintings that illustrate the chocolate tree, its flower and especially its pod (the part that produces the bean that results in chocolate). I respond […]
Going Kosher
By Herb Gardener – According to the Mintel market research company, Americans spent $12.8 billion on kosher food in 2008, up 64% since 2003. The majority of shoppers surveyed claimed perceptions of kosher-certified food as offering safety, health and quality as justification for their purchase, not religious observance. Kosher food was sold at the Super […]
Vegetarian’s Best Food Holiday
By Marsha Fottler – Surprise, the most food-friendly holiday of the year for vegetarians is Thanksgiving. Think about it; if you ignore the big bird on the table everything else there is a sumptuous melange of fruit and vegetables from mashed potatoes, yams, stuffing (sometimes two kinds), bean, corn, broccoli casseroles, cranberry sauce, pumpkin or […]
WELL BEING: The Skinny on Cocktail Calories
By Chef Judi Gallagher. Maybe it’s TVs Mad Men or the fact that vodka and gin makers are turning out fabulous fruit-infused liquor, but cocktail hour is back and you don’t have to be left out just because you’re dieting. And you don’t have to run four miles to burn off a mixed drink or […]
WELLBEING: Breaking The Diet Cycle
By Anna Dantoni. Dr. Michelle May, who is an established and popular author, public speaker, teacher of wellness workshops and a formerly overweight person, is brilliantly positioned as the right authority to pen the book Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat and so she has. May is clear at the outset that is […]
WELL BEING: Our Best-Ever Diet Tips
By Marsha Fottler, Editor. Several years ago while doing an interview with a famous fashion designer who is petite, thin, always traveling and thus a potential victim to bad food, I asked about her dieting secret. She surprised me by saying, “Eat only what is delicious.” “If it’s not the best potato chip in the […]
WELL BEING: Foodies With Celiac Disease Discover Delicious Options in Gluten-Free Restaurant Menus and New Products
By Marsha Fottler. May is National Celiac Awareness Month, a good time to learn more about this disease and the food revolution it started. There are some two million people in the United States who have celiac sprue and require a life-long gluten-free diet. Until recently dining out was a nightmare for these people since […]
Kitchen Remedy for Allergy Eyes
By Marsha Fottler. Along with the darling buds of May comes the rain of pollen meaning that legions of people routinely wake up with red, itchy, swollen eyes. Allergy pills and eye drops help, especially the prescription ones, but there are side effects, most significantly dopiness that makes you crave a nap. There’s also relief […]
WELL BEING: Cutting Back on Sugar is a Delicious Choice
By Chef Judi Gallagher. Cutting back on sugar is one sure way to reduce calories and to train your body (and mind) to crave natural healthy foods. So many of the foods we buy already contain sugar that reading labels and rejecting high-sugar processed foods in the grocery store aisle is one of the easiest […]