Improve the health profile of your dishes by reducing salt while adding flavor. Look to your condiments for help, say the authors of "The Flexitarian Diet" (McGraw-Hill, $24.95) and "The New American Plate Cookbook" (University of California Press, $25.95). ...more

March 28, 2009

The economic recession gripping the country touches many businesses, but liquor retailers will tell you that business isn't bad. Perhaps consumers are sacrificing expensive clothes and jewelry just to save enough money for a bottle of wine. ...more

March 27, 2009

There can be so much more to a salad than opening a bag of gourmet greens and tossing them with a store-bought dressing. ...more

March 14, 2009

A collection of several kitchen- or food-related books. ...more

March 11, 2009

During the colder months we write more about red wine than white. But this week we take another direction to tell you about an underappreciated white grape called torrontes. ...more

March 6, 2009

It's the end of the year, and I've got a bucket full of gratitude and a recipe for charred tomatillo guacamole for my final 2008 column. ...more

December 31, 2008

So, after a hard day's work - or, heck, even a vigorous gym workout - how about a cocktail? Do everything in moderation, as doctors and nutritionists say. Guess how many calories you consume in this liquid diet from www.weightlossresources.co.uk? Note that one answer is used twice. Match the drink to the number of calories and carbohydrates per 100 grams: ...more

December 13, 2008

You overate. You sneaked some skin off the turkey, piled the whipped cream on your pumpkin pie, headed back for seconds. ...more

November 28, 2008

perhaps unfairly - gets a rap for being rife with unhealthy food choices. Yet research shows that the region's native grape may be one of the most nutritious snacks around. The muscadine offers as many, if not more, nutritional benefits as noni, acai, pomegranate and all the other so-called "wonder fruits" people try to wrestle into their diets. ...more

November 15, 2008

a hot, humid London, but London, nonetheless. A gray, constant drizzle of gloom. ...more

August 26, 2008