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When I visited Israel in the early 1980s, I was charmed by the practice of bringing one’s own shopping bags to the grocery store. Forgetting one’s bags meant limiting the shopping list to those foods that could be carried home bag-free. Plastic grocery bags seemed so much smarter. Fast forward 25 years Continue reading “Shopping and Chopping Green” 
The headline of an article in today’s Food Navigator, “Consumers Demand Guilt-Free Indulgence,” caught my eye. The article cited a Datamonitor.com study that found that Continue reading “A Place For Indulgence” You walk into Starbucks or Dunkin’ Donuts or even McDonald’s and buy a coffee drink without too much thought. Mark my words: our love of fancy beverages is going to translate into extra pounds down the road. Why? Because most drinks have lots of calories, sometimes close to one-third of the calories that a Continue reading “Think Your Drink” It was the morning of Super Bowl Sunday, and we decided to get in a workout before an evening of wings and pizza. Problem was that we didn’t leave the house until 9:30 am. It was a bad scene at the gym, with cars circling around the thrice-expanded parking lot and not an open space Continue reading “Super on Sunday” At last night’s “Big Game” party, I thoroughly enjoyed my friend Pat’s spinach dip, a classic made with a package of frozen spinach, a can of water chestnuts, vegetable soup mix, and something white and fattening, usually sour cream or mayo. Continue reading “Guilt-Free Dipping” As a freelance food and nutrition writer, I often am invited to food industry events. Today’s field trip was to a lunch sponsored by McCormick®, the folks whose spices you probably have in your kitchen. Each year, McCormick joins with cooks to create the McCormick® Flavor Forecast, a snapshot of tastes for the Continue reading “Spicing Up Life” When video game creators offered their products to the masses, they probably didn’t anticipate the profoundly negative effect on physical activity levels in the US. Television, computers, and video games give us plenty of reasons to plant ourselves in front of a screen for prolonged periods rather than, say, take a walk. So Continue reading “Say Wii to Activity” A highlight of our summer and fall is the local farmer’s market. So when one of our favorite farmers, Jeff from Bialas Farms, started a CSA for winter veggies, we signed up immediately. CSA stands for Community Supported Agriculture; it offers farmers a way to help support their farm by selling “shares” for a defined Continue reading “Local and Seasonal”
I wrote the following letter to Raymond Sokolov, a Wall Street Journal Editor who wrote an excellent critique of “The Sneaky Chef and “Deceptively Delicious” in his Eating Out column, titled “Playing With Their Food,” in the January 26 issue of the Wall Street Journal: Continue reading “Playing With Their Food — A Bad Idea” A couple of weeks ago, my friend and Food Network host, Ellie Krieger, invited a few colleagues for lunch to celebrate the release of her new book, The Food You Crave. We were joined by editors from MORE magazine who were working on a story on anti-aging. When the editors asked us about our Continue reading “Fitness Matters” |
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