Edible Orange County – Upcycled Foods – upcoming
Edible Orange County – Magical, Mystical, Mythical Mushrooms – read
Edible Orange County – Follow Your Gut – read
Edible Orange County – Rice and Spice – upcoming
Edible Orange County – What’s In a Label? – upcoming
Princeton Magazine (June 2021) – Hot Off the Grill
A backyard barbecue ranks up there with baseball as a great American pastime. These days, most people use a gas grill and not the charcoal briquettes-burning type, which entails a different cooking approach and yields a different product. A fancy grill with bells and whistles is nice, but the grillmaster controls the fate of the food.(read)
Edible Orange County (Spring 2021) – Reaping the Benefits of Home Cooking
The well-known adage “you are what you eat” could use some tweaking.(read)
Edible Orange County (WinterWarm 2021, page 10) – Healthy Comforts During Quarantine What’s your go-to comfort food? Read the article and get great recipes for Vegan Chocolate Mousse, Cauliflower Crust Pizza, Healthier Banana Bread, Vegan Cookie Dough Fudge and Umami Almonds. (read)
Edible Orange County (WinterWarm 2021, page 20) – Straight Talk About the Stalk
Unpretentious celery is having a moment. (read)
Edible Orange County (WinterWarm 2020) – A Food Tour of Emilia-Romagna (read)
*Note: Due to a typesetting glitch, this article may be difficult to read in the publication. Therefore, I have reprinted it in my Food Blog.
Edible Orange County – Mocktail Mixology (read)
Edible Orange County – What’s Trending in 2019 (read)
Edible Orange County (Spring 2018) – Chickpea (read)
Edible Orange County (Spring 2018)- The Beauty of Goth Food (read)
Edible Orange County – The Ice Cream Revolution
A pint of ice cream is a seductive temptation…(read)
Edible Jersey – Jersey City Farmers Market: A Bumper Crop (read)
Edible Orange County – Vegans Rising
Grant me the liberty to say it’s a relief that the Paleo movement is finally waning…(read)
Edible Austin – Plant Based Burgers: 3 Recipes
Take a stab at how big the plant-based food market is these days. In the next two years, analysts estimate that total sales of meat and dairy alternatives will reach $25 billion — that’s no small potatoes. (read)
Edible Orange County – Creating A Family Cookbook (read)
Edible Orange County – How To Build A Grain Bowl (upcoming)
Edible Orange County – A Tour Through Old-World Sicily (read)
Edible Austin – Tech-to-Table: The New Food Revolution (read)
Edible Austin – What’s All The Tofu-sion About Tofu? (read)
Edible Orange County – Xylitol: Sweet Friend or Foe? (read)
Edible Austin – (Cooks 2017) The Magnetic Pull of Induction Cooking (read)
Edible Austin – (Cooks 2017) Cooking Under Pressure – Instant Pot (read)
Edible Orange County (Summer 2017) How To Take Your Turmeric
Turmeric may be trending as America’s hottest spice…but it has been a staple around the world for thousands of years…(more)
Turmeric may be trending as America’s hottest spice…but it has been a staple around the world for thousands of years…(more)
Edible Austin (Jan 2017) Six Trends to Watch in the New
Year The public’s palate is a fickle force, and food trends can fluctuate with the seasons. (read)
Edible Orange County – Top Ten Picks from the Fancy Food Show.
Edible Orange County – Eating Well for Health and Longevity (Winter Warm. Feb 2017). Since time immemorial human have been fixated on discovering the secret to a longer life. (more)
Edible Orange County – The Milk Revolution
Edible Orange County (Spring 2016) Call of the Wild (read)
Edible Capital District Worth A Trip: Puglia
Americans love Italy. The food is amazing, the wine divine, and the architecture and artifacts leave our mouths agape when we aren’t chewing…(more)
Americans love Italy. The food is amazing, the wine divine, and the architecture and artifacts leave our mouths agape when we aren’t chewing…(more)
Edible Green Mountains (Spring 2016) Indian Home Cooking On A Vermont Farm
The true inspiration for Lini Mazumdar’s tiffin business came out of nowhere, as many great ideas do…(more)
The true inspiration for Lini Mazumdar’s tiffin business came out of nowhere, as many great ideas do…(more)
Edible Capital District (Issue 9) The Cheese Traveler
There is actually a word for connoisseur or lover of cheese: “turophile.”…(more)
There is actually a word for connoisseur or lover of cheese: “turophile.”…(more)
Edible Orange County (Winter Warm, 2016) Summer In Salento
Initially I found the southern region of Italy perplexing. Where was the bustle and antiquities of Rome? The jaw-dropping cliffs and rolling hills of Sardinia…(more)
Initially I found the southern region of Italy perplexing. Where was the bustle and antiquities of Rome? The jaw-dropping cliffs and rolling hills of Sardinia…(more)
Edible Austin (Apr 2016) GMOs: A Question of Food Democracy
It’s nearly impossible to escape the ongoing genetically modified organism (GMO) debate…(read)
It’s nearly impossible to escape the ongoing genetically modified organism (GMO) debate…(read)
Edible Orange County (Harvest 2015) The Current State of GMOs
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Edible Green Mountains (Winter Issue, 2016) A Toast To Red Wine
Edible Capital District (Issue 3, Nov 2015) The Substantial Health Benefits of Cooking At Home
The only downside to cooking at home is doing the dishes. In fact, the benefits of home-cooking are not only substantial, they are substantiated...(more)
The only downside to cooking at home is doing the dishes. In fact, the benefits of home-cooking are not only substantial, they are substantiated...(more)
The Jersey Journal (Nov 17 2015) Preserve Labeling of Genetically Modified Foods…
If you live in America you cannot have escaped the ongoing GMO debate. While many hold the strong opinion that genetically engineered foods are unsafe…(more)
If you live in America you cannot have escaped the ongoing GMO debate. While many hold the strong opinion that genetically engineered foods are unsafe…(more)
Edible Capital District, Edible Green Mountains (Summer 2015) Let Food Be Thy NSAID
Ah, summer … hiking, biking, rowing, mowing. As fun as these activities are (well, maybe not mowing), any of them can lead to injury, eliciting an inflammatory response in the body…(more)
Ah, summer … hiking, biking, rowing, mowing. As fun as these activities are (well, maybe not mowing), any of them can lead to injury, eliciting an inflammatory response in the body…(more)
Hip NJ / Dining Scene and Heard (Jul 17, 2015) Detour: Jersey City
Divided into a myriad of distinct neighborhoods, Jersey City serves up an array of exceptional restaurants. No chains or franchises here, instead you will find scores of unique eateries, many of them featuring organic and locally-sourced ingredients on the menu….(more)
Divided into a myriad of distinct neighborhoods, Jersey City serves up an array of exceptional restaurants. No chains or franchises here, instead you will find scores of unique eateries, many of them featuring organic and locally-sourced ingredients on the menu….(more)
Edible Green Mountains, Edible Capital District (Spring 2015) Which Fish To Dish Up Now?
Fish has long been touted as a superfood, a brain food, and an all-around health food. This used to be unequivocally so, with no caveats regarding its safety….(more)
Fish has long been touted as a superfood, a brain food, and an all-around health food. This used to be unequivocally so, with no caveats regarding its safety….(more)
Edible Orange County (Spring 2015, Page 24) The 1- Minute Rice Meditation: An Essential Exercise. Cooking rice has become a small but satisfying ritual for me. Standing at my kitchen sink, I run tepid water into the pot, covering the rice completely…(more)
Edible Orange County (Winter 2014, pages 24-5) The Nutcracker
The nutcracker sat unused in my kitchen gadget drawer for a long time. Sturdy mahogany and shiny metal inherited from my mothers’ kitchen, it sat dormant for a decade; maybe even two. It wasn’t that nuts weren’t eaten in our home…
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The nutcracker sat unused in my kitchen gadget drawer for a long time. Sturdy mahogany and shiny metal inherited from my mothers’ kitchen, it sat dormant for a decade; maybe even two. It wasn’t that nuts weren’t eaten in our home…
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The Times Of Trenton (June 7, 2014) Opinion: Let us know if our food is genetically engineered
While it’s true that genetically engineered ingredients have been present in the foods Americans have eaten for years — since the early 1990s, in fact — to compare the process to selective breeding is incorrect and just what the biotechnology corporations want consumers to believe.
Genetic engineering is a process that cannot occur by itself in nature, it is always done in a laboratory…(more)
While it’s true that genetically engineered ingredients have been present in the foods Americans have eaten for years — since the early 1990s, in fact — to compare the process to selective breeding is incorrect and just what the biotechnology corporations want consumers to believe.
Genetic engineering is a process that cannot occur by itself in nature, it is always done in a laboratory…(more)
Edible Green Mountains (Spring 2014) My Path To Organic Gardening
It was, ironically, the death of my father that led me to organic gardening. Dad was an avid gardener and one of the last things he requested I do was plant—not vegetables, but “flowers,” he said. “You need to plant a lot of flowers”…
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It was, ironically, the death of my father that led me to organic gardening. Dad was an avid gardener and one of the last things he requested I do was plant—not vegetables, but “flowers,” he said. “You need to plant a lot of flowers”…
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Edible Jersey (Winter 2014/Number 30) Container Gardening
When my father passed 12 years ago, one of the last things he said was that he wanted me to grow things in my backyard. I knew that he meant flowers, but being a nutritionist I gravitated toward more edible, nutrient-dense fare: vegetables…
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When my father passed 12 years ago, one of the last things he said was that he wanted me to grow things in my backyard. I knew that he meant flowers, but being a nutritionist I gravitated toward more edible, nutrient-dense fare: vegetables…
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Honey Colony (3 Dec 2013) The ‘Scientific American’ Articles on GMOs
Last night I read the Scientific American article (Are Engineered Foods Evil?, by David H. Freedman), including the editorial (Science Agenda, by “the Editors”) at the front of the publication. I was lucky enough to get my hands on a print copy of the magazine. I was prepared for the stance of Freedman’s article, as most tech or scientific articles will be PRO-biotech. What really surprised me was how discombobulated it was…(read)
Last night I read the Scientific American article (Are Engineered Foods Evil?, by David H. Freedman), including the editorial (Science Agenda, by “the Editors”) at the front of the publication. I was lucky enough to get my hands on a print copy of the magazine. I was prepared for the stance of Freedman’s article, as most tech or scientific articles will be PRO-biotech. What really surprised me was how discombobulated it was…(read)
Honey Colony (23 Nov 2013) Going For Optimum Health In College!
We’ve all seen the articles about avoiding “The Freshman Fifteen”: that’s College Nutrition 101. So when someone asked about attaining and maintaining a healthy and clean lifestyle while in college, it really presented a new challenge…(read more)
We’ve all seen the articles about avoiding “The Freshman Fifteen”: that’s College Nutrition 101. So when someone asked about attaining and maintaining a healthy and clean lifestyle while in college, it really presented a new challenge…(read more)
News from NOFA-NJ (Oct 2013) Raw Milk: To Drink or Not To Drink
It’s a dichotomy.
Picture a pastoral farm, dairy cows grazing peacefully on organic pasture. When the cows are milked, the fresh, frothy substance they produce is known as raw milk. Fresh from the farm, directly from the cow, raw milk is nowadays sought out for its purity and unadulterated health benefits.
Google “raw milk” and you will find articles extolling the the health benefits of what some claim is an elixir, but also of the FDA issuing warnings to avoid it…(read more)
It’s a dichotomy.
Picture a pastoral farm, dairy cows grazing peacefully on organic pasture. When the cows are milked, the fresh, frothy substance they produce is known as raw milk. Fresh from the farm, directly from the cow, raw milk is nowadays sought out for its purity and unadulterated health benefits.
Google “raw milk” and you will find articles extolling the the health benefits of what some claim is an elixir, but also of the FDA issuing warnings to avoid it…(read more)
2013-2014 NOFA-New Jersey Farm Food Guide (Jan 2013) p. 8. 5 More Things You Need To Know About The Fight Against GMOs
Until recently, GMOs was an unfamiliar acronym to most Americans. Genetically modified and genetically engineered were scientific terms that seemed to belong in a laboratory, not a supermarket, kitchen, or pastoral farming locale. Our farms, we thought, were a place where Mother Nature held absolute dominion. Well, enter the 21st century, folks…(read more)
Until recently, GMOs was an unfamiliar acronym to most Americans. Genetically modified and genetically engineered were scientific terms that seemed to belong in a laboratory, not a supermarket, kitchen, or pastoral farming locale. Our farms, we thought, were a place where Mother Nature held absolute dominion. Well, enter the 21st century, folks…(read more)
News from NOFA-NJ (Sept 2012) FIVE MORE THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE FIGHT AGAINST GMO’S
Until recently, GMOs was an unfamiliar acronym to most Americans. Genetically modified and genetically engineered were scientific terms that seemed to belong in a laboratory, not a supermarket, kitchen, or pastoral farming locale. Our farms, we thought, were a place where Mother Nature held absolute dominion. Well, enter the 21st century, folks…(read more)
Until recently, GMOs was an unfamiliar acronym to most Americans. Genetically modified and genetically engineered were scientific terms that seemed to belong in a laboratory, not a supermarket, kitchen, or pastoral farming locale. Our farms, we thought, were a place where Mother Nature held absolute dominion. Well, enter the 21st century, folks…(read more)
Headache Relief Daily (8 Sept 2012) Is It A Stroke Or Complex Migrain Headache Syndrome?
My husband sat by my bed in the stroke unit of the hospital last week, reading the literature the nurse had given him. Truly, we were both in shock. “You have less than a 1% chance of having a stroke…” (read more)
My husband sat by my bed in the stroke unit of the hospital last week, reading the literature the nurse had given him. Truly, we were both in shock. “You have less than a 1% chance of having a stroke…” (read more)
News from NOFA-NJ (Apr 2012 Member Stories) 5 Things You Need To Know About GMOs Right Now
Recently a friend came over and I offered to make us a snack. But when I half-jokingly waved the bag of popcorn and said, “Look, no GMOs!” she stared at me blankly and asked, “What are GMOs?”…(read more)
Recently a friend came over and I offered to make us a snack. But when I half-jokingly waved the bag of popcorn and said, “Look, no GMOs!” she stared at me blankly and asked, “What are GMOs?”…(read more)
News from NOFA-NJ (Mar 2012 Newsletter Editorial) Grow and Behold: Kosher Pastured Meats
In the interest of full disclosure I must first state that I am a vegetarian.This is my second statement, though: after unpacking my first order from Grow and Behold, I was actually tempted…(read more)
In the interest of full disclosure I must first state that I am a vegetarian.This is my second statement, though: after unpacking my first order from Grow and Behold, I was actually tempted…(read more)
EHow Health (Nov 2010) How To Detox With Fruit
A fruit-based detox is a type of dietary program someone might undertake to enhance their health and foster a feeling of general well-being…(read more)
A fruit-based detox is a type of dietary program someone might undertake to enhance their health and foster a feeling of general well-being…(read more)
NOFA-NJ Organic News and Views (Oct 2010, page 4) Inside a Sustainable Restaurant: Kaya’s Kitchen
In the spirit of full disclosure let me first state that Kaya’s Kitchen is my favorite restaurant. And I am not alone. The times I neglected to make a reservation on a Saturday night…(read more)
In the spirit of full disclosure let me first state that Kaya’s Kitchen is my favorite restaurant. And I am not alone. The times I neglected to make a reservation on a Saturday night…(read more)
Raynaud’s Disease (Oct 2010) Nutrition’s Effect on Raynaud’s Disease
The occurrence and severity of symptoms for those who battle Raynaud’s disease is something that can be approached and, hopefully, influenced by nutritional factors…(read more)
The occurrence and severity of symptoms for those who battle Raynaud’s disease is something that can be approached and, hopefully, influenced by nutritional factors…(read more)
NOFA-NJ Organic News and Views (Jul 2010, page 6) Emery’s Certified Organic Blueberry Farm
John Marchese is a man with a mission. Working from his “office” of 60 beautiful acres in New Egypt, New Jersey, he is on a quest to grow blueberries with the highest BRIX rating in the world…(read more)
John Marchese is a man with a mission. Working from his “office” of 60 beautiful acres in New Egypt, New Jersey, he is on a quest to grow blueberries with the highest BRIX rating in the world…(read more)