Busy news week….

First, just for fun, “Cakes Gone Wrong,” which has a fun link to CakeWrecks.
Now on to the more serious links.
Let’s take a close look at the new “Healthy Weight Commitment Foundation.” The objective:
The Healthy Weight Commitment Foundation (HWCF) is a unique partnership between retailers, non-profit organizations, food and beverage manufacturers and trade associations aimed at [...]

Health care: conventional medicine, or chiropractic?

Since college, I have been a firm believer in chiropractic: it treats the root of many symptoms, unlike conventional medicine, which often throws medication at symptoms without healing the cause of them. So I was deeply impressed by Michael Pollan’s op-ed piece, “Big Food vs. Big Insurance” in the New York Times in response to Obama’s [...]

Friday List of Links

Out this weekend – can’t wait to see it: Julie & Julia, starring one of my favorites, Meryl Streep (Our Lady of Foreign Accents) as the indomitable Julia Child. Of course, I can’t get the picture of SNL’s bloody spoof out of my mind….
Nutrition Data posts on a report on carbohydrate intake and obesity. I [...]

Planning ahead: School lunch is around the corner!

Still trying to get across town to the asian market, but in the meantime a very important quick link for those of us with kids and those of us who care about all kids: sign up to support Slow Food’s Time for Lunch campaign, which promotes  small changes to the Child Nutrition Act, which is up for [...]

On the road again…

Wish I could claim it’s a voluntary chef’s vacation, but this week begins our family’s relocation from CA to MI, almost 2 weeks of enforced eating out, something I dread heartily. Hoping to find some healthy surprises along the way…. I’ll be posting occasionally, but new recipes are unlikely until after July 4th weekend.
Thanks to [...]

Food shopping, anyone?

Although the mere thought of shopping for clothes or gifts or just about anything is enough to make me break out in hives, I love food shopping! (Okay, I also love browsing cookware stores and bookstores.)
News reports indicate that Americans are indeed trying to eat out less and eat in more – is it helping us [...]

Cooking Personality Disorder

It’s really time to get back to posting some recipes, but humor me one day more – I found this to be an interesting exercise (and being in the middle of not one, but two piles of real estate paperwork, I simply haven’t had time to play in the kitchen!) I recently blogged about the [...]

The Joy of Supersizing?

Just about everyone has a cooking “Bible” – at my mother’s house, it’s the old Betty Crocker cookbook she got for her wedding. I have coveted that cookbook since moving out on my own 20+ years ago! When I moved into my own apartment, my father bought me a “new and improved” Betty Crocker cookbook, [...]

Health & Nutrition in the News

A new study was released by the New England Journal of Medicine this week: “Comparison of Weight-Loss Diets with Different Compositions of Fat, Protein, and Carbohydrates”. In the study, 811 individuals were divided into 4 groups and each group adhered to a particular diet. The diets varied in macronutrient composition (meaning the percentagels of fats, [...]

And finally, the White House Chef is revealed…

The DC restaurant scene is buzzing, trying to figure out which restaurants will rise and fall with the arrival of the Obama administration next week – apparently the President-Elect loves to eat out, according to “Rearranging the Tables in Washington”. But what interests me far more, as a foodlover and a mother of young children, [...]