I had the pleasure of working with dietetic intern Lauren for a few weeks in April. Lauren’s fun hobby is beer brewing at home! We both chatted about our love for good quality dark beer and it’s health benefits. Here is Lauren’s guest post on her latest home brewed batch. (p.s. Oldways cookbook winner announced [...]

If you’re a healthy living blogger, chances are you were glued to the Today Show Thursday morning at 8:35am to watch Caitlin Boyle’s interview on Operation Beautiful, and it was well worth it – she was fabulous! Caitlin started the Operation Beautiful movement, inspiring people to end negative thoughts and fat talk, and transform the [...]

The other night Jess and I went Brookline Booksmith to hear a favorite author, Molly Wizenberg, speak and do a reading from her book A Homemade Life. I read this book within the last year and while I was reading, felt like I was chatting with a good friend in her kitchen over a cup [...]

With Passover starting this week, we decided to use up some bread that was taking up space in the freezer. So Sunday night I whipped up some grilled Mushroom Mozzarella Paninis for a quick dinner. I started by grilling portabella mushrooms on our grill pan for a few minutes on each side. Next I spread [...]

I am reading foodie Mark Bittman’s book, Food Matters right now. It is a simple, straight-forward guide to conscious eating that is good for your health and the health of the planet. It reminds me a lot of Michael Pollan’s book, In Defense of Food – another favorite of mine, but it’s a topic that [...]