Here's a nice video (courtesy of The New York Times ) chronicling one Italian family's way of life—lemons!—that is diametrically opp...

Here's an easy recipe for a full-flavored Asian dish—Vietnamese green mango and pork salad—that requires no crazy cooking skills and n...

Whenever I buy fruit that needs more ripening time (avocados, mangos, etc.), I try to let the fruit hang out (literally) instead of restin...

I satisfy my sweet tooth with dark chocolate, maple syrup, raw honey and molasses, but th e se stand-alones don't work for everyone. Fo...

Almost two dozen states are at various stages of the fight to have foods containing genetically-engineered ingredients labeled as such . Her...

Health troubles ahead for Huey, Dewey and Louie? Am I crazy for feeling sorry for ducks when I see people feeding them bread made from b...

Visit www.justlabelit.org I received this action alert from the Center for Food Safety yesterday. L a beling of foods containing geneti...

A client/friend sent me an email yesterday asking about what kind of chicken to use in a chicken cacciatore dish I had shown her how to make...

Banana with peanut butter, the perfect snack Is there a quicker, easier and more filling snack than banana with peanut butter? If poss...

Solidifying its push to make itself the industry leader in the selling and marketing of non-GMO foods, Whole Foods is holding a sale this we...

Using everyday personal health care products every day isn't as innocent as the sunshine-filled commercials that tout them make it ...

Chicken piccata with greens. Here's how to prepare chicken piccata, a relatively easy—but flavorful—dish to make. I use boneless and...

A question I hear all the time: Do you wash chicken or beef before cooking it? My answer is "no," and here's the reason why, ...

Do you remember the Center for Food Safety (CFS) petition you signed last week urging the National Organic Standards Board (NOSB) to phase o...

Tom Philpott I share many of Mark Bittman's columns from the online edition of The New York Times in this space, but another writer...

Overwintered spinach. For the past two weeks, I've been buying the first of the spring vegetables available at farmers' markets ...

For those trying to move away from heavily-scented commercial laundry detergents that contain phtalates (endocrine-disrupting chemicals that...

Whole Foods, just a couple weeks after announcing that it will label foods containing genetically-engineered ingredients by 2018 , has alr...

Mark Bittman's piece ( "Why Do G.M.O.’s Need Protection?" ) in today's online edition of The New York Times is, I believe...

Well, you can learn something every day. I just received this action alert from the Center for Food Safety . Did you know that antibiotics c...