Today marks both the first official day of summer and my first antibiotic-free day in three weeks! Late spring in New York means piles of fresh produce, bustling farmers’ markets, gardens in bloom, and…tissues. While half of the city has been battling allergies in one of the worst seasons in memory, I’ve been stuck with [...]
June 21st, 2011
Market Report: Stinging Nettles
September 15th, 2010
The Freshman 15? Fugheddaboudit!
The days of late night study sessions and parties overflowing with keg beer and Cheetos are long behind me, though the memories still linger like they happened yesterday. Some of them I’ll cherish forevs, like meeting my Tribe and working at my first few restaurant jobs in the city. Others, like getting out of a [...]
December 3rd, 2009
The Skinny
At least once a week I’m asked, “How do you stay so skinny?” When you look at Mario Batali, Paula Dean or Nigella Lawson, they look like chefs. You believe them as honest to goodness food people. You can tell they eat, and that they love eating. But when I tell people I’m a chef, [...]
July 28th, 2009
In The Buff
I’m in The Buff. No, I’m not naked. That photo is meant only as a ploy to get you reading about processed food. The truth is, I’m spending the week with my Mamma and celebrating my cousin Frankie’s high school graduation in my hometown of Buffalo, New York. Affectionately donned, “B-lo” or “Buff” when I’m [...]
May 2nd, 2009
An(other) Inconvenient Truth (Part III)
Michelle Obama to the rescue. It may be premature to grant her superhero status just yet, but this first lady has done more for food in her “first 100 days” than other administrations have done in the last 100 years. By planting a green garden on the white house lawn and opening her kitchen to [...]
April 25th, 2009
An(other) Inconvenient Truth (Part II)
I am not the only one to notice the symbiotic and highly profitable relationship between Big Food & Big Pharma, nor am I alone in diagnosing the tight grip they hold on chronic disease. I am a student of a small but growing few who have made it their lives’ work to advocate on behalf [...]
April 18th, 2009
An(other) Inconvenient Truth (Part I)
Global warming may be killing the planet, but fast food is killing the people who live on it. I’m not singling out McDonald’s, Burger King, or any of the many fried chicken joints as the sole source of this most modern of epidemic plagues.That’s been done, well, and documented over and over again, even after [...]
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