This delicious quinoa recipe bursting with superfoods is perfect to make on the weekend and eat throughout the week.
Looking for a quick n' easy gluten-free and dairy-free breakfast that's high in protein and healthy? Look no further!
We are told by various experts that certain foods are powerful enough to have dramatic effects on the various health conditions that challenge us as a modern society. These foods, some common and some a bit more exotic, have been tapped as the answer to what ails us.
LA PAZ, Bolivia — The growing global demand for quinoa by health food enthusiasts isn't just raising prices for the Andean "super grain" and liv...
Breakfast may be the most important meal of the day, but we seldom treat it as such.
A guest at our Thanksgiving Leftovers Dinner raved about a quinoa stuffing she'd made for her own family's annual feast the day before. I cringed a bit because few of us comprehend the dark side of our trendy infatuation with this ancient food from high in the arid Andes.
You can now feel good about your bacon habit.
Eating healthy should never leave you hungry, which is one of the reasons I love quinoa (pronounced keen-wah). It looks like couscous and eats like ...
With an empire whose beginning predates the arrival of Europeans in the Americas, the Incas were fueled by a diet made up of nutritionally dense, new world foods. Here are five of them.
In addition to being supremely healthy -- it is known as a superfood because it contains all of the essential amino acids we need -- quinoa also cooks up relatively quickly. These recipes are the superfood at its best.
Quinoa is the subject of a new upcoming documentary, The Mother Grain, by Michael Wilcox and Stefan Jeremiah. The pair ventured to Bolivia searching f...
This was another great week for summer recipes. As we start to ease back into back-to-school season, we talked about sandwiches (and the all-important...
Very few people actually want to eat health food. We crinkle our nose at broccoli, and would pass up quinoa for a plate of cheese fries anyday. We're ...
Whether we're at a restaurant or a weekend barbecue, it always breaks our hearts just a little to get a veggie burger that's little more than a dry, beige puck.
The health nut in me was overjoyed by the opportunity to have a healthier hand roll. Eat rolls, don't get rolls.
The writer, director, editor of the documentary Vegucated did not descend "from the planet Vega to convert the mere earthling." Marisa Miller Wolfson started out as a midwest girl with a fondness for bacon. Along the way, she became "a professional eco-nudger" and dedicated vegan.
Jam-packed with vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants -- and healthy fats that will leave you satisfied, but not stuffed -- the six salads below will give you loads of energy. You won't even miss the lettuce. Promise!
The new year has passed, and we're now in detox mode. Resolution mode. Eating more whole grains, happily, falls into these categories.
Grain is as American as apple pie. So it's only natural that farmers who want to protect this land -- and its amber waves -- are growing it sustainably.
The name may sound totally alien, but quinoa has been around for centuries. You've probably heard of it before or seen it in health food stores, but d...
Most days, lunch is simply a means to an end, whether that purpose is alleviating hunger pangs or providing a tasty distraction from the work day. But...
For one fab weekend, the spacious but contained world of the Baltimore Convention Center became a Wonderland of all things organic, where I never had to apologize for being vegan or explain what it means. Coming from meatcentric Miami, I've got to tell you, it was nice.
How many Bernal Heights dinner parties have you attended where, when you've asked your host how to dispose of your half-eaten plate of quinoa, he responds, "Just toss it in the compost bowl"?
