Despite what the last decade’s barrage of diet gurus say, eating healthy does not have to be as complex as counting your calories, carbohydrates and saturated fats. You don’t have to cringe at the sight of salt, or a nice stick of butter. Fortunately, eating well doesn’t involve the self-torture and deprivation that most diets ...
Growing up as a nice Jewish boy in Southern California, I had been told from the get-go that pork was one food that was off limits. I would constantly ask why, only to be told that it’s because of the shape of the animal’s hoof, a perfectly logical explanation if you’re willing to swallow loads ...
If there is one thing that people around the world can all agree on, it’s that we all love to eat, drink and be merry. Whether you get to work on a Hummer (if you do, shame on you), on a bike or a camel – we all love to sit down to a well ...
If you live in Southern California and don’t reside in an underground water park, you’ve probably heard that California is not doing so hot in terms of the water supply. Although we have been in a drought for years, we might actually start to see significant lifestyle forced upon us due to the increasingly drastic ...
Chefs the world over are often asked by curious patrons, “I loved the dinner tonight, but you must tell me, what’s your secret?!” When going to a restaurant and partaking in a triumphant feast of the senses, it’s easy to believe that chefs have secret, unknown ingredients in their food that make it so much ...
Still reeling from my unbelievable vision, I was determined to find a way to make the Berkeley farmers markets work for me, and not the other way around. I was tired of being pushed around by produce that haunted my thoughts and created a longing in my palette that I knew had to be quashed. ...
Close your eyes for a moment and try to imagine what a day in America without meat would be like. What would happen? Perhaps massive riots would break out, widespread panic would ensue, and people would probably try to hunt down neighborhood squirrels. Perhaps everybody would become enlightened and live in perfect harmony, but I ...
Old McDonald had a farm, but unlike his song, he got tired of living in the Midwest and moved to Berkeley in the 1960’s in order to sell the best produce city-folk had ever seen. Since then, farmers markets have began a cornerstone of Bay Area life. Without a doubt, farmers markets are where home ...
It’s the first thing to hit your lips as a newborn and the last to come out of your nose during a well-timed joke – it’s milk, and without it mammals wouldn’t live more than a day of life – but is milk as good for you as dairy companies would have you believe? Now ...
Dr. Frankenstein may have been a scientific genius, yet despite his brilliance there were naysayers who disapproved of the way he fiddled with nature – now modern day scientists are doing the same by genetically modifying plants to do their bidding. Believe it or not, human beings have been intentionally breeding plants to have specific ...