Salt - it's my one weakness. Ok, maybe cute baby animals, chips and salsa, and bookstores rank as highly for that title, but salt is up there. So when you hear the rumor that perhaps one salt is 'healthier' than another, it is something I felt I had to investigate. And in honor of Salt Awareness [...]
Tag: Health and nutrition
‘Eating out’: Numbers on menus not enough to ward us off overeating
Eating out is such a major part of any social scene these days. Bowling teams, coworkers, women embarking on a girl's night: They all pile into a restaurant that can accommodate large groups of hungry people, to enjoy the atmosphere, the company, and a great, savory meal that just magically appears before them. Heck, even [...]
A locavore’s holiday: National Farmer’s Market Week
In case you didn't know, this coming week August 5 - 11 is National Farmer's Market Week. All hail the mighty American farmer! Locavores, unite! Believe me when I tell you, farmers don't do what they do for the money. Well, they try to. But for smaller farms, it's becoming harder and harder to break even these [...]
My top 10 kitchen prep essentials
While perusing a book I'd recently acquired on food and cooking (totally out of character for me, right, to pick up yet another cookbook? You can all laugh now), a section in it got me to thinking. The book proposed 12 essential tools for the kitchen. While I had everything except two (though both were [...]
Will soft drink ban turn New York into the “Skinny Apple?”
So - the mayor of the Big Apple, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, has decided he wants to try banning soft drinks larger than 16 oz. from being served in restaurants and other related establishments. Uh oh. While soda is probably one of America's biggest (no pun intended) problem factors in the overall diet in [...]
