A foodie’s inspiration: Food, or inner drive to please?

What is your inspiration to cook?  I am a self-diagnosed, obsessive-compulsive foodie. Anything food-related makes me want to drop everything and investigate. So, when I stumbled across the above linked video spot for the BBC's new show No Kitchen Required last week on happenstance, I clicked through, because the tagline "What inspires you to cook" intrigued me. [...]

FYI Online Daters: You’re missing out on your brain telling you who’s Mr. Right

Matters of the heart can be hit and miss, no matter how you go about it. But apparently dating is literally all a head-game, according to Scientific American. Health and the science behind emotions and how they affect us physically is something that has always intrigued me. Today, I came across this basic video on [...]

My modern spice cabinet

_________________________________________~*~_________________________________________ Every serious foodie has an arsenal of spices at their disposal, Swedish-chef style as powders go flying every which way, adding a little of this and a dash of that to a vat of any bubbling concoction on the stove. Well, at least that's what should be in the "what my mom thinks I do" [...]

Reinvigorating your healthy New Year’s resolution

By Lindsey Gemme We’re one month into the new year already. So how’s that New Year's resolution coming along? Let me guess—and stop me if you've heard this before—“I'm going to start exercising more, eating better, and lose 'x-amount' of pounds in 2012”? I thought so. Those professions of personal betterment are in the top [...]