For those of you who joined the Honeycrisp apple season late last year and weren’t able to enjoy these crisp, sweet-tart, luscious Platonic-ideals-of-an-apple for more than a few weeks before they disappeared, I am delighted …

All this recent talk about yogurt reminded me that it was high time I took up the issue of probiotics, an area of tremendous growth in the food industry… and equally tremendous confusion among the …

It’s a well-established fact that there is no better ending to a summer meal than a slice (or three) of cold, sweet watermelon.
But on my recent trip to France, I encountered watermelon at the beginning …

Dietary supplements are a hotly-debated issue among nutritionists, with some hard-liners advocating a whole-foods-only approach and others recommending daily multivitamins as an “insurance policy” for everyone.
I suppose that philosophically, I come in closer to the …

In Jamaica, they make it into tea and call it “sorrel.”  In Mexico, they make it into soda and call it “flor de Jamaica.”  When made into tea here in the U.S., we call it …

As far as I’m concerned, berries are among the best foods one can eat.
During the winter, berries that have traveled from South America are outrageously expensive and lack their characteristic, in-season sweetness.  For this reason, …