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Vegan Eating (And Cheating) With Mark Bittman

2013-05-09T08:25:32Z

Could you eat like a vegan until dinner time? That's precisely what New York Times' lead food writer, Mark Bittman, decided to do -- and then he wrote...

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WATCH: Mark Bittman Talks Cheating With VB6 Diet

2013-05-06T09:34:13Z

Food writer -- and friend of Gwyneth Paltrow -- Mark Bitman appeared on HuffPost Live on Friday to promote his new book VB6: Eat Vegan Before 6:00 To ...

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WATCH: Mark Bittman Defends His Pal Gwyneth Paltrow

2013-05-05T19:40:15Z

Food writer Mark Bittman stopped by HuffPost Live on Friday to promote his new book--and way of life--VB6: Eat Vegan Before 6:00 To Lose Weight and Re...

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Kathy Freston: Consider Becoming A Part-Time Vegan

2013-05-04T10:20:37Z

Truly, Mark Bittman's new book Vegan Before Six is offering a way of eating that could be transformational: Readers will lose weight (if they have weight to lose), have more energy, and suffer much lower risk for diabetes and heart disease. And animals and the earth will be better off.

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Andrea Grossman: Mark Bittman: Two-thirds Vegan and a Handful of Other

2013-04-10T19:33:52Z

Bittman brings out the joy in eating light, healthy meals for breakfast and lunch, and dives head first into a moderate omnivorous meal at dinner. It's about balance. It's about enjoyment. And it's also about eating less meat not just for health reasons, but for positive environmental impact.

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Dr. Jonny Bowden: Soda and the Nanny State

2013-03-15T12:12:11Z

Did the Bloomberg proposal have faults? You bet. Did it have loopholes? Sure. Would it present an enforcement nightmare? Probably, although not nearly as bad as critics have suggested. But that does that mean we sit back and do nothing?

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David Katz, M.D.: Sweet Nothings, Bitter Truth

2013-03-02T13:11:57Z

I have great respect and appreciation for the Times, and a fair portion of both for the insights of foodie/journalist Mark Bittman. But I have just about none of either for the combination of the two represented in an editorial by Mr. Bittman in the Times this week declaring sugar toxic.

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Michael Rosenblum: Still WIth the Talking Heads?

2013-02-13T18:18:11Z

Talk about a singular lack of imagination. In 2013 GUIDE is essentially using cutting edge technology to create a virtual 1923 newsroom. Great! Well, good for GUIDE if you can get money for this.

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Rajiv Narayan: Answering Mark Bittman: Why Does Beyoncè Think It's OK to Sell Pepsi?

2013-01-28T11:47:15Z

New York Times food journalist Mark Bittman asked, "Why Do Stars Think It's OK to Sell Soda?" The question is brilliant, but goes unanswered -- a rhetorical question where perhaps we'd do better than to take the answer for granted.

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David Katz, M.D.: Bearing With Coke: Soft Drinks, Hard Choices

2013-01-26T12:07:22Z

I share my colleagues' visceral opposition to everything Coke. But I think we may be letting our abdominal viscera get the better of vital organs situated higher up.

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Bill & Claire Wurtzel: Have A Sweet New Year With Less Sugar

2012-12-28T19:09:22Z

I don't sweeten coffee, tea or cereal, rarely drink soda, and avoid foods with "added sugar" labels.

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Bruce Friedrich: Outraged by Pink Slime? Actually, Chicken Could Be a Much Bigger Risk

2012-11-19T16:24:26Z

There's a real dispute about the safety of pink slime, but not so of chicken. If we has a nation became alarmed in proper proportion to things that are concerning, however, white slime would be a much bigger concern than pink slime.

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Marjory Abrams: Scrumptious Winter Soups for People Who Hate Beans

2012-11-19T15:38:05Z

It all started one Saturday this summer, when we lunched at the home of friends. Maria served a delicious potato-leek soup that my family fell in love with.

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Louise McCready Hart: Mark Bittman and Florence Fabricant on Cookbooks, Food Blogs, Apps and Foodies

2012-10-26T18:22:40Z

"Cooking is all about compromising. You never have enough time, enough ingredients, enough skill. If I have good ingredients, I try to take advantage of them, but I don't always have the best." -- Mark Bittman

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Charlotte Hilton Andersen: New Traffic Light Food Labels: Much-Needed Intervention or Nanny State Interference?

2012-10-16T12:26:40Z

Mark Bittman, a writer for the New York Times, is proposing a new way to label foods so that all consumers need to do is take a quick glance at the package to make an informed decision about their health.

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Tamar Haspel: Don't Romanticize Small Farmers -- Some Are Jerks

2012-08-30T08:24:38Z

The destruction of topsoil, the reliance on monocrops, and the web of subsidies for corn and soy are indefensible. Painting big farmers as bad guys and small farmers as good guys doesn't help.

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Mark Bittman Apologizes For Calling Dead Chick-Fil-A VP A Pig

2012-08-08T05:45:01Z

New York Times food writer Mark Bittman has found himself in some hot water recently. First he tried to alienate his dairy-loving readers by going on ...

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culture magazine: Cheese Magazine To Mark Bittman: Don't Be A Weasel

2012-07-13T17:51:20Z

In last Saturday's New York Times, Mark Bittman tells the story of his heartburn, and how quitting dairy helped him lick a lifelong case of acid reflux.

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Alton Brown Fumes At Mark Bittman Over Food TV Comments

2012-04-12T14:28:30Z

Sorry, food television stars: New York Times columnist Mark Bittman probably isn't a fan.

According to Capital New York, the scribe behind The Min...

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Bittman: Pink Slime A Symptom Of Larger Problem

2012-04-04T09:06:19Z

Rick Perry -- remember him? -- was more inspired as a defender of the beef processing industry than he was as a debater. Last week, Perry -- along wit...

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David Katz, M.D.: What’s A Calorie?

2012-03-22T08:22:04Z

We are wasting our energy debating the nature of the calorie -- which is, simply, and incontrovertibly, a measure of energy.

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Fake Chicken Worth Eating?

2012-03-12T09:22:14Z

It is pretty well established that animals are capable of suffering; we’ve come a long way since Descartes famously compared them to nonfeeling mach...

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Dr. Susan Albers: The Oscars of Eating: 12 Superstars

2012-02-24T17:07:00Z

Do you love watching the Oscars? In honor of award season, I'd like to give 12 awards for the best, research, tools and media on healthy eating and body image.

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Julie Tilsner: 5 Hot Chefs Who Can Cook Me Valentine's Dinner

2012-02-14T17:01:44Z

Emmanuel Delcour isn't the thinking woman's crush. He's not the thinking girl's anything. He's just a beefcake, or whatever the French equivalent is.

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Jerusha Klemperer: 50 Most Powerful People in Food? Whose Food?

2012-01-20T18:02:30Z

This duality of sustainable food advocates on one end and industrial food giants on the other shows the growing power of each of the poles of our food system.

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