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Chinese Chicken Salad
If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen! It was so hot yesterday, I had to get out of my kitchen. So I fired up the grill and whipped up one of my favorite salads on the deck for dinner. I had some skinless, boneless chicken thighs marinating in some teriyaki sauce, [...]
Continue reading »Talk to Your Daughters About the Beauty Industry
We all must consider the world wide impact of what we do to look good.
Continue reading »The CDC and Childhood Obesity: Thinking Outside the Box
School food reform is not about building a better nugget for the cafeteria or pumping up the pizza with whole wheat crust and low fat cheese. What we must do is raise the Food IQ and transform the culture of food in each and every school district in the USA. Here’s how.
Continue reading »Adventures in Campout Cooking
Yesterday I wrote about extending campout fare beyond burgers, dogs and s’mores. Today was the day I put theory into action. G1, the youngest cabin of girls, were the subjects of my little food experiment. Tonight at campout, in addition to the usual veggie burgers, dogs and burgers, I tossed some red peppers and zucchini [...]
Continue reading »Eating Weeds
Today for lunch at Ballibay we had weeds in our soup. No joke!
Continue reading »Diet Mythology
This week at Gilda’s Club Westchester, I’ll be teaching one of my most favorite classes: Diet Mythology. I first came up with this topic way back in 2006 when I was teaching a course entitled American Food Culture for non native speakers of English at Manhattanville College. Diet myths continue to grow and circulate thanks [...]
Continue reading »Beyond Fat and Calories
If you read these 3 books and watch these 3 movies, you’ll never look at fat and calories the same way again.
Continue reading »Too Good To Be True
Think chocolate milk is a diet food? Think again! Want to know the best drink to help you lose weight, read this blogpost and find out!
Continue reading »Safer Lettuce is Simple!
What can you do to protect yourself from a lettuce recall? The solution is simple.
Continue reading »Dangerous Words
Yesterday, I wrote about the ambiguous nature of one word: sugar. The food industry and well meaning mainstream nutritionists have succeeded in confusing us. Is sugar good? Is it bad? I spend loads of time helping clients understand the distinctions between the sugar found in carrots and how that is completely different from the crystalline [...]
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