Whole foods throughout the whole day! When I first started eating a plant-based diet, I heard the term “whole foods” a lot, and that a whole foods diet is very health-promoting. But I felt a little ...
Dried Herbs and Spices
"Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I'm taking with me when I go." --Erma ...
The Two Mistakes That Led Me to Better Health
Have you ever felt like you made a really big mistake only to realize later that it was in fact the jumping off point to something better? I recently read a LinkedIn article by Deepak Chopra MD, ...
Are You an Environmentally Aware Eater?
If you eat a plant-based/vegan diet, you are most likely a very environmentally aware eater: You are aware that raising animals for food takes a much greater toll on our natural environment than ...
Favorite Holiday Recipes
The dishes linked below are my favorites for the holidays. Some are traditional and others are not, but they are all appropriate for a holiday feast. If you are new to healthy holiday cooking and want ...
8 Tips for Easier Plant-based Meals
We humans are wired to follow the path of least resistance, which is especially apparent when it comes to feeding ourselves: We want it now and we want it easy. While eating the standard American ...
How I Grew into a Plant-Based Chef
In 2006, having resigned from a stressful position in publishing, I found myself sitting across from a career coach I found in one of those free New Age magazines. Halfway through our first session he ...
Cooking without Oil
The thought of cooking without oil can be a little mind-bending if you haven’t done it. The mere suggestion to chuck the oil from the kitchen (and the body) usually elicits the responses, “What do you ...
