Recipe: Quinoa Breakfast Porridge

Feb 22, 2010 | Recipes

Tweet Right now, I’m whipping up a little “Whole Grain booklet” for our Jr. Iron Chef Event at Mount Kisco Child Care later this week. This breakfast porridge is made with one of my all time favorite whole grains, quinoa.Quinoa (pronounced KEEN-WAH)...

Reads for Eaters

Feb 12, 2010 | Movies & Book Reviews

Tweet There has been an explosion of food and nutrition related books over the past few years. People ask me all the time what books to read to get up to speed with food. Not to overwhelm you, I taken my top 100 favorite books on the subject and cooked that list down...

Michelle & Jamie, Let’s Talk About Oil

Feb 11, 2010 | Better Health, Go Green

Tweet Things are looking up when it comes to the health of our kids. Two days ago, Michelle Obama announced a comprehensive initiative to end childhood obesity in a generation. The program, Let’s Move includes a broad base of smart ideas, like eliminating food...

Re-thinking Your Drink

Feb 8, 2010 | Better Health

Tweet Last night while most of the country was watching the Super Bowl, I was learning about fructose metabolism. A lecture by Dr. Robert Lustig, a pediatric endocrinologist held my attention for over 90 minutes as he explained how fructose, present in both fruit...