I love living in the SF Bay Area. In addition to the wonderful natural resources we have here, there are also a plethora of wonderful speaking engagements to attend. In the past year, I have seen Mollie Katzen, Ellie Krieger, Marion Nestle and Jacques Pepin speak. This week, I was able to [...]
Eating well at fast food restaurants can feel like a monumental task - nutrition information is often difficult to find. My friends at Wellsphere just launched Wellternatives – a new free healthy eating service that recommends healthy alternatives for your favorite dishes at hundreds of thousands of chain restaurants. They designed it so [...]
Sometimes pictures (and movies) speak a thousand words.
Here are some interesting and inspiring videos on You-Tube about Share Our Strength, The Great American Bake Sale and Childhood Hunger.
Share Our Strength Promotional Video
The Great American Bake Sale
5th Annual Great American Bake Sale - short and sweet
The What’s Cooking Bake Sale team is setting dates for our [...]
March 30, 2008 Op-Ed Contributor, New York Times
By BRIDGET STUTCHBURY Woodbridge , Ontario
THOUGH a consumer may not be able to tell the difference, a striking red and blue Thomas the Tank Engine made in Wisconsin is not the same as one manufactured in China — the paint on the Chinese twin may contain dangerous [...]
A friend sent me an article this week from the BBC. It’s headline reads: Cookery Classes to be Compulsory; Cookery lessons are to be compulsory in England’s secondary schools for children aged 11 to 14. The article goes on to say that the move is part of the strategy to tackle [...]
I was saddened to see a two page advertisement for the weight loss drug Alli towards the front of Everyday Food, a magazine I enjoy. The ad opens with the heading “Let’s talk about healthy eating” and continues to talk about how people need to enjoy the foods that they are eating or [...]
For awhile, it felt like I wrote about Deceptively Delicious all the time. Then, I decided to give you a break, purposely not delving into all of the rumors and drama surrounding the author and her famous husband. I didn’t even mention how Jerry Seinfeld called Missy Chase Lapine (the author of The Sneaky Chef, [...]
