Food

Anthony Bleecker was a New York City lawyer and poet whose best friend was Washington Irving. Legend has it that because the wagon ruts that passed for a road ran through his farm, Bleecker became the street's name.

Today, Bleeker Street is known for its high-end boutiques, but small...

I had to write this in honor of Mother's Day coming up.

With all of the love love love, think positive self-help mantras out there; I am going to flip it for you.

I want to help all you parents out there learn why and how it is vital to...

With few supermarkets, city dwellers seeking fresh good grow their own.

It's easy to dismiss the growing trend of urban agriculture as a phenomenon for the affluent, given the lofty undertones of most writing on fresh and local food. However, as I tried to point out this New York...

As much as I've bemoaned The Secret and it's heretofore unbelievable existence, on Friday I asked, I believed, and let me tell you, did I ever receive!

In case you've never heard of it, I like to follow a little blog called Eater, and Eater likes to follow...

It's started. The recent BBC World News report on the startling rise in basic food costs throughout the world is alarming new evidence of the trouble we're in as a species. Unless we can learn to let go of our addiction to...

Round about the time that Eliot Spitzer was doing up his fly after being publicly flogged for committing the same sort of sordid atrocity that he beat his breasts about over the years, I was busy, as usual, thinking about my life as a professional eater.

I'm not...

Hello to everyone out there in blog land. I am thrilled that Arianna invited me to be a part of such a vibrant online community. By way of a quick introduction, I am a psychotherapist working in private practice in NYC, and I specialize in eating issues. As a former...

There are simple carbohydrates, complex carbohydrates, and then there's the Twinkie, made from military industrial-complex carbohydrates. It's got some of the same ingredients as tracer bullets and artillery shells, as I learned from reading Steve Ettlinger's Twinkie, Deconstructed.

Ettlinger's book, just out in paperback, documents the 39 ingredients it...

Why has food become such a big issue? It is not discussed in the context of why we dump sheep in the sea to maintain prices or have mountains of butter and milk while many go hungry, but rather it is presented in an accusatory manner as though humans have...

Chew on this: more Americans skip breakfast than skip voting, Christmas, and George Bush's State of the Union address combined. Even my dog, Ham Sandwich, knows breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Scientific scientists have proven that without breakfast the brain can not function properly. I submit...

Well, of course, where else would you expect to find America's first feng shui'd fast food outlet? A McDonald's in the Los Angeles suburb of Hacienda Heights has opted to bag the golden arches' classic red, yellow, and plast-icky décor in favor of "leather seats,...

What's so bad about convenience food?, I asked Michael Pollan - his new book, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto, has been the number one best-seller nationally for the last few weeks.

"I need to eat in a hurry," I told him, "so I can rush...