Food articles:

Smart Food for Kids

By Elizabeth Barker Children who load up on sugar, processed foods, and fat in their first few years may be more likely to have low IQs, a new study from the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health suggests. For the study, parents of about 14,000 kids filled out questionnaires when their children were three-, four-, […]

Backyard Gardening

Most of us neglect the most basic, essential, and valuable skill of all: the ability to feed ourselves.

Rainbow Road Trip

Eating vegan through red states, blue states and . . . green states

Thanks Be for Café Gratitude

By Abigail Lewis When you enter the front door at the new Café Gratitude on Larchmont, the symbolic mural extending the length of one wall seems to invite you into an orchard to share the experience of the burgeoning life therein. The painting practically begs for a photo, and fortunately I’d brought my trusty digital. […]

Sustainable Malibu: Plate

By Lucinda Michele Knapp The ocean view out Plate‘s wide front windows is unobstructed, save for a field of vivid yellow blossoms bobbing in the breeze just across PCH. Owner/manager Shiela Elardo explains that, “This was the best place to have the restaurant because people in Malibu are concerned with eating healthy and sustainably.” But […]