This weirdo plant reverses sour and sweet in your tastebuds for an hour after you eat it — a little reminder from nature that perception is everything.

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Today Mark Sisson offers a very sane guide to holiday eating.

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This molasses loaf is so rich and flavorful that you only need a tiny slice to satisfy, with a cup of tea or coffee. Now, let me stress: If you don’t like molasses, you won’t like it. Despite cardamom, cinnamon, and ginger all being on the ingredient list — and the fact that the original […]

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My favorite holiday is fast approaching. The photo above was the sun setting over the Pacific right before we sat down to eat during Thanksgiving 2006.
I’ve seen people at the grocery store already laying in supplies, so I think that this Meal Planning Week. How will you approach the holiday?

Declare it a glorious day of […]

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As with pumpkin, I get the warm fuzzies when I think about cranberries. But where pumpkin is warm and comforting, cranberries, ruby red and shivery-tart, add exciting zing. (Yes, cranberries are exciting. Time to get out of the house.) It’s hard to get them fresh any other time of the season — same with […]

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This recipe is the best dish I’ve made in a long while. It’s so good I want to climb to the highest peak in the land with a giant megaphone and tell the world! But it’s Sunday morning and I’m in my bathrobe and the blog will have to do.
A few notes: I’m posting my […]

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Check out this article on “eating to support your yoga” in Yoga Journal. If the sections on ayurvedic eating and fasting (they give fasting a thumbs-down) bore you, skip straight to the “conscious eating” section.

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Have you tried to make something “healthy” or just something to use up the odds and ends in the fridge and had the experiment go horribly awry? Or had a surprise success?
Yesterday I was cleaning out the fridge and stirred together a concoction of brown rice, light goat cheese, marinated artichokes, grated carrots, and spaghetti […]

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Half of Me details the disappointment of a Starbuck’s pumpkin scone and latte, much longed for and finally eaten as a “cheat meal.” I was right there with her: Starby’s once failed me, too, in the baked goods dept. Oh, how it was a day of woe. Oh, how the skies ran with blood. Oh, […]

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Another blogger had a slightly more positive reaction to those Spinach Brownies than I did. But I wouldn’t call it a rave.

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