This recipe originally appeared on the Muy Bueno Cookbook blog, which I publish with my mother and sister. The warm weather is a long ways away and there is nothing I enjoy more than frolicking in the sun and less time in the kitchen, at the hot stove or oven. In the summer I love [...]
This article originally appeared in my blog, Non-Toxic Kids. You can find more tips for safer, greener, and healthier eating in my ebook, Eat Non-Toxic: a manual for busy parents. Is there nothing kids love more than macaroni and cheese? Such lovely melted goodness, especially the homemade kind. And kids should really only eat the [...]
Every year, without fail, on talk shows, in magazines, and even among friends and family, the holidays provide fodder for the same lament: how are we to be healthy during a season that holds eating – particularly foods high in calories and sugar – at its core? And every year as I hear this common [...]
Este blog se había publicado en Comiendo en LA. For English, click here. Recipe type: Guarnición Prep time: 15 mins Total time: 15 mins Serves: 2-4 porciones La ensalada que les presento el día de hoy, es ideal para acompañar los platos durante las cenas en las festividades. Inspirada en las Peras Coreanas que Melissa’s [...]
Para esta receta en español, haga clic aquí. Recipe type: Salad Prep time: 15 mins Total time: 15 mins Serves: 2-4 porciones The salad I present to you today is ideal to accompany meals during the holidays. Inspired by Korean Pears that Melissa’s graciously provided me, I created this delicious salad: Ingredients 2 tablespoons of [...]
For these recipes in English, click here. (Fotos de izquierda a derecha: Un plato de pasta con lentejas y col rizada; Animar a sus hijos ayudar en la cocina es una buena manera motivarlos comer verduras.) Cuando le digo a alguien que solamente cocino comida vegetariana en mi hogar, su reacción es aparecida de la [...]
It was late summer, fall was approaching. You could tell from the bushels of sweet, crisp, apples for sale in the Eastern Market (stacks of them in the same formation they were a hundred years ago). We meet on the bustling street corner in front of Cost Plus wine shop, our learning kitchen perched above [...]
The food we eat is as critically important as the air we breathe. That is why I made the documentary film, Soul Food Junkies. It is time that we start to have honest conversations about our food, the rising obesity crisis, and the negative impacts on the health of our families. What better time to [...]
The country is getting ready to enter prime food time: Christmas! Full of cakes, pies, meats, sauces, heartburn, heart disease, and obesity. Yea… I love it. My mom always used to say that if you’re going to have it, meaning sweets and heavy foods, have it in its entirety with no substitutes. She said this [...]
As a small-scale organic farmer who believes in the grass-roots power of the local food movement, I find Michelle Obama’s food activism inspiring. When I heard about her reforms to public school lunches, of course I thought it was a step in the right direction. Just a step, mind you: ultimately, I’d like to see [...]
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