Displaying items by tag: Conscious Eating
Feast in the Fields
The Rise of Pop-Up Organic Dining
by John D. Ivanko and Lisa Kivirist
The flip side of enjoying farm to table is taking the table to the farm. So-called “pop-up feasts” are booming at farms throughout the country during...
Eating Vegan on the Road
Clever Ways to Eat Healthy Anywhere
by Judith Fertig
Traveling can be tricky for those trying to eat a plant-based diet, especially on long stretches of highway. More than 33 percent of Americans, or 100 million-plus people, are...
Backyard Pizza Party
Grill Scrumptious Pizzas and Flatbreads
by Claire O’Neil
Summer is high season for grilling when just about anything sizzled over high heat tastes great. Grill masters Karen Adler and Judith Fertig recently put this theory to the test when they fired up their grills—gas and charcoal—to cook...
Milk Minus the Moo
Evaluating Alternatives to Dairy
by Judith Fertig
When dietary concerns, food sensitivities or curiosity prompt us to try alternative milks, it helps to know the basic facts about the leading types, to choose the best ones for...
Eggs-pert Advice
How to Buy Good Eggs from Happy Hens
by JUDITH FERTIG
Janice Cole, the author of Chicken and Egg: A Memoir of Suburban Homesteading with 125 Recipes, knows how delicious a really fresh egg tastes. She keeps three chickens she calls “the girls” in the backyard of her suburban Minneapolis home. “Jasmine, a white Silkie, lays small, beige-colored eggs; Keiko a black and white Ameraucana and Silver Wyandotte cross, green eggs; and Peanut, a brown, feathery Cochin mix, brown eggs,” relates...
Thumbs-Up on Fats
Good Fat Doesn’t Make Us Fat
by Judith Fertig
In an era of too much information, the role of fats in our diet has been a victim of not enough information. Today’s turnaround in nutritional thinking acknowledges natural fats as being vital to...
Fearless Eating
How to Move Past Food Sensitivities
by by Kathleen Barnes
Complaints of digestive upsets, brain fog, headaches, relentless food cravings and unrelieved stress appear to be at epidemic levels these days. These symptoms may be part of...
Indoor Kitchen Gardening
Easy-Grow Microgreens Are Big on Nutrition
by BARBARA PLEASANT
Fast, fun to grow and packed with flavor and nutrition, tender young microgreens can go from seed to table in as little as a week. Close cousins to edible sprouts, microgreens are grown in potting soil or seed-starting mixes instead of...
The Dark Side of Gluten-Free Living
Most People Benefit from Gluten
by JUDITH FERTIG
Sales of gluten-free products reached $973 million in 2014 and are projected to grow to $2.34 billion in 2019, according to...
Healthy Holiday Libations
Restorative Drinks Revive Good Cheer
by JUDITH FERTIG
During jam-packed special occasions like holidays, our drinks should multitask, too. We need festive tipples to refresh us without overdoing it, restore equilibrium if we overeat or drink or revive us when we’re feeling low from a seasonal cold or...