Mushrooms Make Vitamin D?
Looking to get more Vitamin D into your diet? It turns out Vitamin D–which helps create strong bones, boosts our immune systems, and helps ward off cancer, autoimmune diseases, and hypertension–is...
View ArticleSoba Noodle Soup
Here’s another great recipe from Daphne Miller’s book “The Jungle Effect.” This is a healthy and delicious recipe from Okinawa, where people hardly ever get breast or prostate cancer, and routinely...
View ArticleChanterelles!
I’m in Stockholm right now, trying to type on a keyboard that is very similar to the U.S. keyboard, but which also has such keys as “ö” and “ä” where I expect other characters to be, so it’s messing me...
View ArticleCool, Now We Know When Haggis and Mallomars Were Invented
Check this out: Found this “food timeline” online that details when different foods first came into use and/or were invented. Rice and millet, for instance, have been eaten since before 17,000 B.C....
View ArticleWhat Self-Respecting New York Woman Cooks?
Ten-hour days. Tiny kitchens. And I didn’t go to college to major in home economics, now did I? When I was in high school and college, I had zero interest in cooking. I was going to be a career woman,...
View ArticleVeggie Burgers
Best veggie burgers ever, courtesy of my friend Barbara. 3/4 cup bulgur wheat 1 grated zucchini 1 onion, chopped 10 oz. mushrooms, chopped 1 cup mozzarella cheese, grated 1/3 cup parmesan cheese,...
View ArticleMagic Mushrooms
The more we study mushrooms, the more amazing they become. Mycologists are now finding that such humble varieties as oyster mushrooms and garden giant mushrooms are capable of everything from cleaning...
View ArticleHow the “Umami” Taste Affects Appetite
Growing up, you may remember learning about the four tastes that our tongues can detect: sweet, sour, bitter, and salty. But it’s now generally recognized that there is a fifth taste, a taste that’s...
View ArticleShould You Get Your Vitamin D Levels Checked?
Whenever one of my clients tells me that they recently saw their doctor for a general checkup, they also tell me that their blood work indicated they were low in Vitamin D. I’ve just come to expect...
View ArticleThe Foods I Eat
As a holistic nutrition counselor, I’m often asked, by my clients as well as my friends and acquaintances, what I myself eat every day. Do I do Paleo? Do I start my day with oatmeal or Greek yogurt? Do...
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