Food articles:

Bike Messenger Brownies

By Natalie Slater Every barista has a name for it: a chai latte with a couple of shots of espresso. Some call it a dirty chai, some call it a speeder chai, but we called it a Bike Messenger Chai. If you saw a guy (or girl) walk in with one rolled-up pant leg, a little […]

Hot off the Press — Tasty new food cookbooks

Cookbooks You’ll Love Love food and love to cook? Love food and want to get out of the kitchen as quickly as possible? Enjoy food but hate the way your body reacts to some of it? Wondering what foods are most healing (or least damaging) for you? Some of these new releases are serious, some […]

Eat Here Now: Feed Body + Soul

By Abigail Lewis Have you ever fantasized about the dream menu (and personal chef, of course) for your home kitchen? I found mine at Feed Body & Soul, where they cook with no refined sugar or oil and use almost exclusively organic, wild-caught and free-range ingredients. Laudable as that is, it wouldn’t be enough. Feed […]

Pumping Out Antioxidants

By Elizabeth Barker Even after they’re harvested, fruits and veggies keep on responding to changes in light by pumping out chemicals that fend off plant-eaters—and those same chemicals could pack major antioxidant power when consumed by humans. That’s the finding of a recent Rice University study, whose authors are now exploring produce-storing strategies to help […]

Alternate-day Fasting

Perhaps the ultimate diet plan, intermittent fasting drops pounds. But that’s just for starters

Sprouts Natural Foods Chain Adds a New Link

West Hills welcomes its first natural foods market By Abigail Lewis The West Valley is practically tap dancing with joy, as Sprouts Market opens a new market on Fallbrook Avenue just a few blocks from Ventura Boulevard. Opening day May 22 showed just how ready the neighborhood is for another alternative to Trader Joe’s, located […]