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If you're like us, you're firing up the grill a lot these days. Here are 13 new ideas for filling out your summer grilling repertoire, from hearty gri...
Last night I had dinner with some chef friends and posed a simple question: What dishes do you think of when you think of avocados? They all had the s...
WASHINGTON -- Michelle Obama's campaign against childhood obesity moved a step forward Wednesday with the announcement that Wal-Mart and other retaile...
The fruits and vegetables that have been dubbed "superfoods" over the past few years have a few things in common. They're almost all dark-colored. Man...
We're big believers in bringing your lunch to work: whether you love it or hate it, you know that come noon, instead of hungrily browsing SeamlessWeb or roaming the streets of the Midtown food desert.
Whether your reason for starting a vegetable garden is for saving money, self-sustainability, growing organically or simply a new hobby, growing your ...
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Cities such as San Francisco and Washington D.C. have made symbolic MM proclamations, but Aspen, Colorado is doing something much more exciting and comprehensive.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture last week officially and finally scrapped its food pyramid -- an explanation for nutrition that could be as elusive to decipher as the riddle of the Sphinx.
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Senior Week was probably the only time in my life when I didn't feel the need to do...anything. I slept through ...
More current and former professional athletes than you would think have given up animal proteins and turned to a variety of alternative veggie-based diets instead.
What can I cook on a Tuesday night that everyone will like that doesn't involve an emergency run to the specialty grocer? Now that I've arrived safely in the land of Simple, I feel like I should pass on some tips.
For most of us, vegetables are something we reluctantly scarf down before dessert. But imagine what would happen if the two courses were combined into one?
Meet Leda Meredith, author of The Locavore's Handbook and one of New York City's most well-known urban foragers. We visited Prospect Park in Brooklyn ...
All of us process food differently. Just because the food doesn't make you fat doesn't mean you're getting the nutrients you need or expelling the things in food that will make you sick.
Our friends at Food52.com, whose weekly recipe contests we feature on HuffPost Food, bring us this original collection of beautiful end-of-winter sala...
Along with eating right and exercise, Web-based communities are emerging as a third prong in a plan to not only reclaim but maintain health and vitality.
One morning, while working as a chef in Barcelona, Spain, I walked into work and heard what sounded like the snap of rubber against bare skin. As I tu...
From 1975 to 1985, maize, wheat and rice production grew twice as fast as the global population. But the green revolution had little impact in sub-Saharan Africa -- the region most crippled by hunger.