WELL BEING: The Skinny on Cocktail Calories...

By Chef Judi Gallagher. Maybe it’s TVs Mad Men or the fact that vodka and gin makers are turning out fabulous fruit-infused liquor, but cocktail hour is back and you don’t have to be left out just because you’re dieting. And you don’t have to run four miles to burn off a mixed drink or two if you stock the bar with new, lighter sipping mixes that are minus the sugar (but not the flavor) of traditional happy hour. It...

WELLBEING: Breaking The Diet Cycle...

By Anna Dantoni. Dr. Michelle May, who is an established and popular author, public speaker, teacher of wellness workshops and a formerly overweight person, is brilliantly positioned as the right authority to pen the book Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat and so she has. May is clear at the outset that is not a diet book, it’s a strategy on how to confront and then vanquish a familiar cycle of eating, repenting,...

WELL BEING: Our Best-Ever Diet Tips...

By Marsha Fottler, Editor. Several years ago while doing an interview with a famous fashion designer who is petite, thin, always traveling and thus a potential victim to bad food, I asked about her dieting secret. She surprised me by saying, “Eat only what is delicious.” “If it’s not the best potato chip in the world or the most flavorful piece of steak or the most wonderful granola bar I simply don’t bother...

WELL BEING: Foodies With Celiac Disease Discover D...

By Marsha Fottler. May is National Celiac Awareness Month, a good time to learn more about this disease and the food revolution it started. There are some two million people in the United States who have celiac sprue and require a life-long gluten-free diet. Until recently dining out was a nightmare for these people since gluten-free meals hardly existed. Cooking at home wasn’t any better. Today because of the sudden...

Kitchen Remedy for Allergy Eyes...

By Marsha Fottler. Along with the darling buds of May comes the rain of pollen meaning that legions of people routinely wake up with red, itchy, swollen eyes. Allergy pills and eye drops help, especially the prescription ones, but there are side effects, most significantly dopiness that makes you crave a nap. There’s also relief as near as your kitchen inside your refrigerator. My dermatologist revealed a secret to...

WELL BEING: Cutting Back on Sugar is a Delicious C...

By Chef Judi Gallagher. Cutting back on sugar is one sure way to reduce calories and to train your body (and mind) to crave natural healthy foods. So many of the foods we buy already contain sugar that reading labels and rejecting high-sugar processed foods in the grocery store aisle is one of the easiest ways to not bring over-sugared products into the house. Another is to recognize that some of the food additives that...

Pink Ribbon Month...

By Marsha Fottler and Judi Gallagher. This is the 25th year that America has officially observed Breast Cancer Awareness in the month of October. Nationwide, the next few weeks are filled with events both expansive and intimate but all geared to heighten our knowledge of breast cancer prevention and treatment, and to raise money for breast cancer research, patient care and public education. It doesn’t matter what you...