The day Julia Child flipped her potato pancake onto the stove on her live show The French Chef was a key moment in culinary history. It reminded viewers that mistakes happen; it took some of the fear out of cooking. In this summer’s box office hit Julie and Julia, Meryl Streep plays Child and muses [...]

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Last week we discussed how eating less meat can benefit our pocketbook and our health. This week we’ll look at how eating less meat can help curb climate change, save the environment and lessen our dependence on foreign oil.
Curbs climate change
In 2006, a United Nations study reported that the livestock industry contributed 18 [...]

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Science Daily reports on a newly released study by Ohio State University’s Center for Human Resource Research which found that people who use Food Stamps have a higher body mass index by 1.5% than those not using them. Some people seem shocked by this finding, but to me it’s a no-brainer.
La Vida Locavore reports that [...]

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This post comes from our friend Julie Negrin M.S. – Julie is a nutritionist, cooking instructor, writer and most recently, a blogger – check out her new blog: My Kitchen Nutrition at www.julienegrin.com/blog. She was also just visiting NYC for 5 weeks to teach and had the opportunity to visit Rooftop Farms.

Have you ever [...]

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Not long ago, the Sustainable Table team took a trip out to the Bed-Stuy Farm. After a 45-minute subway ride from mid-town Manhattan, we emerged in Brooklyn under the same sunny sky but to a very different New York City landscape. Gone were the bustling sidewalks, skyscrapers and gourmet fast food – here were low, [...]

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From our friends at Healthy Monday…
Here at Healthy Monday, we’re deeply committed to supporting people and organization working to improve personal health around the country. This Monday we highlight The Veggie Grill, well known in Southern California for serving classic American comfort food. Their menu includes such favorites as BBQ Wings, Chicken Caesar Wraps and [...]

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Doctors to rock stars to Nobel Peace Prize-winning UN panels and even nonprofit organizations are telling us to eat less meat. But why?
To start, if we cut out red meat, fish and/or poultry one day a week without changing any other part of our diet, we would reduce animal protein consumption approximately 8.4 ounces [...]

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The Fooducate Blog has some fun looking at the serving sizes listed on junk food. Sure that Tazo tea may have only 90 calories per serving, but did you notice the ten teaspoons of sugar you’re guzzling down as well? Yikes!
School Lunch Talk reports that British celebrity chef Jamie Oliver is coming to America to [...]

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This post comes from Marjorie Taylor, the proprietor of The Cook’s Atelier . She cooks and writes about food from her tiny home in Burgundy, France. See more of her writing on her blog, www.thecooksatelier.com.
I just recently returned from Valloire, a tiny mountain village located in the French Alps.  Specifically, it is located in the Savoie department in the Rhône-Alpes [...]

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Monday is a fresh opportunity to recommit to a healthy lifestyle. However too many of us are derailed by the very notion of our favorite comfort foods. Approximately 70 million Americans suffer from conditioned hyper-eating, or the loss of control when encountering trigger foods. One such individual is Dr. David Kessler, a Harvard educated pediatrician [...]

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