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April 23, 2012
Year of the Takeout Day 113: Frozen Whole Wheat Chicken Potstickers
Frozen Whole Wheat Chicken Potstickers by Tang's Natural
Blogs
February 10, 2012
Michelle Obama Suggests Updating Military Chow to Curb Obesity
Michelle Obama stopped by the Pentagon today to announce a new obesity awareness campaign for the military, according to Reuters. The plan will require stocking all 1,100 American military mess halls with more fruit, vegetables, whole grains, and low-fat food, and will affect 1.45 million troops.
Blogs
February 10, 2012
"Mindful Eating" Is The Hot New Thing For Your Mouth
Today's New York Times has an interesting article about a trend called "mindful eating," which is based on Buddhist principles and which will teach your taste buds a thing or two while making you less of a slurping hog. It's about savoring your food, thinking about it, taking your time with ... More >>
Blogs
November 18, 2011
Congress Wants Your Kids To Be Fat
In a heated congressional session Thursday, lawmakers continued to clash with the Obama administration over proposed changes that would make the school-lunch program healthier, arguing that low-income children have a right to eat shitty food and get sick from it.
Blogs
September 28, 2011
New Polls Reveal Americans Aren't Happy With Food System
KB35, Flickr, CCIs Michael Pollan's message sinking in? Are Americans finally tired of wolfing down government-subsidized Doritos (R.I.P. Arch West) and Big Macs? According to a new poll, the answer is an encouraging, although by no means overwhelming, yes. Recently, Mark Bittman pointed to t ... More >>
Blogs
September 16, 2011
Harvard to USDA: Our Plate Is Better Than MyPlate
Harvard School of Public Health Last June, the USDA replaced its long-suffering food guide pyramid with the more plain-spoken MyPlate. Its merits quickly became a source of debate among nutritionists and public policy types, including those at the Harvard School of Public Health. And now sci ... More >>
Blogs
July 15, 2011
Mediterranean Diet Falls Out of Favor with Mediterraneans; Why Big Macs Are Cheaper Than Whole Foods
Sure, the Mediterranean diet -- full of fruits, vegetables, fish, and nuts -- is healthy. But in the 16 Mediterranean countries that made it famous, people have abandoned it in favor of processed food that's full of fat, salt, and sugar. ABC News] A paper in today's edition of the journal Sc ... More >>
Blogs
June 28, 2011
Bringing Borscht Back; Queen Mary 2 Fails Health Inspection
After a few years of folly -- i.e., focusing on healthy snacks -- it appears that PepsiCo is turning its attention back to Pepsi. [Wall Street Journal] Cold borscht certainly isn't as hip as it used to be back in the 1950s, but Marc Gold, CEO of Gold Pure Food Products Co., hopes to bring th ... More >>
Blogs
May 31, 2011
The Food Pyramid Is Being Replaced by the Food Plate. Should We Care?
Let's hope Obama's food plate has more on it than this.The food pyramid most of us grew up with is going the way of Betamax. But you probably won't be shedding a tear for the defunct infographic (bread and grains on the bottom, followed by fruits and vegetables, meat and dairy, and sweets and ... More >>
Blogs
April 13, 2011
Food Day 2011 Will Attempt to Get America to 'Eat Real'
Since 1981, World Food Day has come around every October to increase awareness and understanding of hunger, and promote actions to alleviate it. But its scope is just so planetary, so mindful of countries that don't suffer from an overabundance of junk food, subsidized corn, and diabetic thir ... More >>
Voice Choices
April 13, 2011
Femi Kuti & the Positive Force
Since 1981, World Food Day has come around every October to increase awareness and understanding of hunger, and promote actions to alleviate it. But its scope is just so planetary, so mindful of countries that don't suffer from an overabundance of junk food, subsidized corn, and diabetic thir ... More >>
Blogs
March 9, 2011
Shocker! Cartoons Make Food Taste Better to Kids
ShutterstockNow doesn't that look tasty?According to a new study in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, children think foods with cartoons on the packaging taste better than foods which don't. Using the same cereal in different boxes, researchers had the kids sample both and ra ... More >>
Blogs
February 17, 2011
10 Astounding Nutritional Discoveries of the Future
Too many Omega 3's will quite literally turn you into a fish! Nutritionists tend to be full of shit. One day they tell you to eat margarine, then change their minds and say margarine will kill you. Generated by meaningless correlation studies and based on shaky science, so it is with most o ... More >>
Blogs
February 8, 2011
Lady Gaga's Boyfriend Lands Drunk Diet Book Deal
drunkdiet.comLuc Carl, drinking and dieting.The USDA Dietary Guidelines state that moderate drinking is good for your health, but surely this is not what they meant.
Blogs
January 31, 2011
USDA Dietary Guidelines: Eat Less Crap
El Gran Dee/FlickrHere's looking at you.The USDA published its 2010 Dietary Guidelines today. The takeaway: eat less crap.
Blogs
January 31, 2011
Government Continues to Blame American Obesity on American Stupidity
The government has been dealing in some confusing messaging lately. For one, they did away with those color-coded terror alerts, seemingly acknowledging that we're not actually all mental kindergartners after all. But their new nutrition guidelines seem to be something of a step back in estim ... More >>
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January 19, 2011
Restaurant A-List Still Excludes Top Chefs; Domino's Launches Low-Fat School Pizza
Close to 60 percent of the 24,000 restaurants in the city that have been inspected by the city received an "A" grade. So, why are some of the city's most highly regarded restaurants still struggling to even get a "C"? [NY Times] Do you have the time and patience to make your pet's food? Thos ... More >>
Blogs
January 7, 2011
Lenny Bruce's Mom: California Health Nut
Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. October 21, 1971, Vol. XVI, No. 42 Lenny & a mother's love By Arthur Bell LOS ANGELES, California -- I ring a doorbell where it says Sally Marr, and an invisible voice calls Arthur, is that you, c'mon in. I walk into a courtyard. Lawn ... More >>
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January 4, 2011
Kick Off Wholesome January with Olea's Farro Pasta
Rick S.Wholesome farro goodness. For many of us, the first month of the year is a time for remorse and salad, maybe even going teetotal. It's a time to be healthy after weeks of end-of-year debauchery. Detox Month. But let's be reasonable: It's still January, and New Yorkers can't subsist on ... More >>
Blogs
November 20, 2010
Mayor Bloomberg Cutting Carbs, Pudding in Jail
Prisoners at Rikers Island will eat less thanks to Michael Bloomberg's budget cuts, which are now coming for carbohydrates. Instead of eight slices of whole wheat bread every day, inmates will get six as part of a $1.6 billion budget adjustment proposed this week, the Daily News is reporting. ... More >>
Blogs
November 2, 2010
Damascus Bread & Pastry Shop's Whole-Wheat Spinach Pie
In their desire to appeal to the more health-conscious and/or guilt-ridden among us, numerous bakers compromise their products with whole-wheat flour, and the result is often reminiscent of chew toys and arbitrary childhood punishments. But this is happily far from the case at Damascus Bread ... More >>
Blogs
October 28, 2010
City Unsure If Soda Really Makes You Fat
The New York Times got its hands on some internal e-mails today that show how desperate city health department officials were to sell a "soda makes you fat" campaign in an effort to boost support for a penny-per-ounce soda tax proposal that ultimately fizzled.
Blogs
July 9, 2010
Vegetarian Delights of NYC: 5 Napkin Burger's Veggie Burger
You wouldn't necessarily expect to find a decent veggie burger -- or any veggie burger -- at a burger joint, particularly one that boasts its patties are so full of meat drippings that they require five napkins to digest. So it's a pleasant surprise to report that there isn't a decent veggie ... More >>
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April 20, 2010
'Old School' Vegetarian Sandwich at Birdbath Bakery Is a Thumbnail History of Hippie Cuisine
Birdbath's sandwich ($7) is a compendium of wholesome, simple ingredients. Birdbath Bakery has a new offering, known as the Old School Vegetarian Sandwich. Two slices of whole grain bread cradle a filling of shredded raw carrots, mixed sprouts, and ripe avocado, which is spread with a knife ... More >>
Blogs
December 29, 2009
The Future Is Bleak for Foodies; Forget Jared. Meet Christine, Taco Bell's Diet Poster Girl
The latest food recall comes from National Steak and Poultry in Oklahoma, which is recalling some 248,000 pounds of beef that might be contaminated with a strain of E. coli. The meat could be linked to illnesses in Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, South Dakota, and Washington. [ABC News] Wh ... More >>
Blogs
December 15, 2009
DOH Bans Seafood Out of Street Carts in 2010
midtownlunch.comNo more Kwik Meal salmon and tilapia for you!When it's not grossing us out, the Department of Health is breaking our freakin' hearts. Midtown Lunch learns that, due to a resolution adopted last year, as of next year, "No fish, shellfish, or any food consisting of or made with ... More >>
Blogs
December 7, 2009
My Rant: Who Keeps Stealing the Butter from the Buttermilk?
Remember the fat-o-phobic early 90's, when every speck of fat had to be removed from every product, and nothing would sell in the supermarkets unless it was labeled "lo-fat" or "no-fat"? And margarine laden with trans-fats was touted as health food? Well, as with the lo-carb era that followed ... More >>
News
October 27, 2009
Bake Sale Crackdown
The Department of Education says its bake sale policies will help combat obesity, but students worry they'll be left starved for funds
Blogs
October 26, 2009
FiDi Getting a Bon Chon
Instead of vegetarian health food, 104 John Street will be serving up fried chicken. The former home of Zen Palate is being transformed into a Bon Chon Chicken.
Blogs
October 9, 2009
A New Food Network On the Way; Julia Child Contemporary Charlotte Snyder Turgeon Dies
Scripps Networks has plans to launch a cooking-focused TV channel next year, called the Cooking Channel, that will replace Fine Living. The company has a growing appetite for food programming following a joint venture to bring the Food Network to Europe. [Wall Street Journal] New Jersey can ... More >>
Blogs
June 23, 2009
Booze News--Beer Cocktails & Pimm's Cups-a-Go-Go
EU officials in Brussels are blocking the sale of lower alcohol wines developed by New World wine regions. One method to make low-alcohol wine involves harvesting grapes which are immature and have a low sugar level, the second uses fully matured grapes to produce a normal wine, from which alcohol i ... More >>
Blogs
June 1, 2009
What's Happening This Week--Learn How New York Chefs Cook At Home & Sample Homebrews At the Brooklyn Beer Experiment
As many of you know, our weekly dining and drinking newsletter features all the coolest epicurean events in the city. Sign up for it here! How I Cook At Home Whole Foods Bowery Culinary Center June 1, 8 & 15 Ever wonder what your favorite chef keeps in his or her kitchen? The How I Cook At Home ser ... More >>
Blogs
May 21, 2009
Gourmet Says We Should Pay More for Food--Do You Agree?
Gourmet has an interesting piece on the cost debate at the recent Cooking for Solutions Sustainable Foods Institute in Monterey, CA. Apparently, we pay too much for food, according to certain experts (Whole Foods global produce buyer, Karen Christensen, being one of them). According to these exper ... More >>
Blogs
April 16, 2009
Domino's Grossout Kids Face Arrest; TV Chefs on the Naughty List & Bruni Begs: Eat At Restaurants!
"Michael" and "Kristy" from the grossout YouTube video in which two Domino's Pizza employees defile pizza toppings before allegedly serving them to customers face felony charges and, possibly, a civil suit. [FOXNews] Don't do as they say or as they do--TV chefs are spreading their bad habits to vi ... More >>
Blogs
February 20, 2009
Incredibly Cheap Eats -- Whiting on Whole Wheat
The scrumptious whiting sandwich at Dolphin (presumably, no dolphins were harmed) In Uptown Manhattan the fish sandwich rules as a cheap tuck-in. And one of the best places to get them is in the seafood markets usually run by Koreans. These vertical operations fry up whatever filets they have o ... More >>
Blogs
February 17, 2009
Trail Mix That Tastes Good
Usually, trail mix is just an excuse to pick the chocolate chips out of a bag of nuts. But these trail mixes, from Sahale Snacks, are delicious. There are six different varieties, of which my favorites are Ksar--pistachios, dried figs, sunflower seeds and harissa--and Sing Buri--cashews, dried pine ... More >>
Blogs
January 30, 2009
Weekend Special: Recipe for the World's Greatest Veggie Burgers
If there's one thing vegetarians still crave from the world of meat, it's hamburgers. But the frozen patties they pull from supermarket freezer cases are the palest of imitations - rubbery hockey pucks of textured vegetable protein (TVP) laced with rancid-tasting onion powder and mystery fats. Unles ... More >>
Blogs
January 13, 2009
Food News From Across the Country
The economic downturn has resulted in a decrease in milk consumption; now California's dairy operators may need their own sort of bailout. [Mercury News]Representatives from seven of the country's most expensive restaurants, from Masa to Alinea, say they haven't seen much of a decrease in business. ... More >>
Blogs
December 19, 2008
Keeping Cubicle Inhabitants From Getting Fat
The economic downturn has resulted in a decrease in milk consumption; now California's dairy operators may need their own sort of bailout. [Mercury News]Representatives from seven of the country's most expensive restaurants, from Masa to Alinea, say they haven't seen much of a decrease in business. ... More >>
Blogs
September 25, 2008
Food Fight: Harlem Forum Debates Supermarket Sweeps
The economic downturn has resulted in a decrease in milk consumption; now California's dairy operators may need their own sort of bailout. [Mercury News]Representatives from seven of the country's most expensive restaurants, from Masa to Alinea, say they haven't seen much of a decrease in business. ... More >>
Blogs
August 29, 2008
The Great Sirloin Taste-Off
The economic downturn has resulted in a decrease in milk consumption; now California's dairy operators may need their own sort of bailout. [Mercury News]Representatives from seven of the country's most expensive restaurants, from Masa to Alinea, say they haven't seen much of a decrease in business. ... More >>
Blogs
May 1, 2008
First Lady Paterson Greens the Mansion, Enjoys Thai Food
The economic downturn has resulted in a decrease in milk consumption; now California's dairy operators may need their own sort of bailout. [Mercury News]Representatives from seven of the country's most expensive restaurants, from Masa to Alinea, say they haven't seen much of a decrease in business. ... More >>
Blogs
March 19, 2008
Whole Foods Nixes Plastic Bags For Good
The economic downturn has resulted in a decrease in milk consumption; now California's dairy operators may need their own sort of bailout. [Mercury News]Representatives from seven of the country's most expensive restaurants, from Masa to Alinea, say they haven't seen much of a decrease in business. ... More >>
Blogs
October 16, 2007
A Briny Love Connection: Whole Foods and Wheelhouse Pickles
The economic downturn has resulted in a decrease in milk consumption; now California's dairy operators may need their own sort of bailout. [Mercury News]Representatives from seven of the country's most expensive restaurants, from Masa to Alinea, say they haven't seen much of a decrease in business. ... More >>
Blogs
March 28, 2007
Remain Calm: Whole Foods Bowery Opens Tomorrow
The economic downturn has resulted in a decrease in milk consumption; now California's dairy operators may need their own sort of bailout. [Mercury News]Representatives from seven of the country's most expensive restaurants, from Masa to Alinea, say they haven't seen much of a decrease in business. ... More >>
Blogs
February 23, 2007
Battle of the Greenest: Whole Foods, Wild Oats
The economic downturn has resulted in a decrease in milk consumption; now California's dairy operators may need their own sort of bailout. [Mercury News]Representatives from seven of the country's most expensive restaurants, from Masa to Alinea, say they haven't seen much of a decrease in business. ... More >>
Blogs
November 14, 2006
Supermarket Sweep: Price Check on the Chayote!
The economic downturn has resulted in a decrease in milk consumption; now California's dairy operators may need their own sort of bailout. [Mercury News]Representatives from seven of the country's most expensive restaurants, from Masa to Alinea, say they haven't seen much of a decrease in business. ... More >>
Theater
June 27, 2006
Early Bud Special
Unhealthy Breakfast may cause bloating, hangover
NYC Life
October 11, 2005
Restrictive Diets Unite
New York's vegan-Kosher connection
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August 10, 1999
Breakfast of Champions
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