Foodtrainers’ Blog
Unsolicited Nutrition Advice, Is It Ever OK? Who asked you?
I have an acquaintance who, in the past couple of years, has completely revamped her eating and exercise routine and become very interested in nutrition. She sent me the query below in an email. I am very aware of what people eat around me, especially my family...
Rethinking Skim Milk
I went to college when “fat free” was all the rage. Snackwells, skim milk and fro-yo were in. Avocado was out. As absurd as it sounds to recount this now, it’s even funnier to think that I was in New Orleans, land of beignets and muffaletas. Little did I know...
Market Melissa Visits East Side Fairway and Dreams up Her Ideal Food Store
Market Melissa reviews the new Fairway Market and dreams up her what her ideal market would look like, take it away Melissa. You won’t be hard-pressed to find a food market in NYC but what’s tricky is finding one that has everything on your weekly shopping list. I...
Take it With a Grain of Salt
I love blog requests, this came from a client last week: I'd like to know what you think about salt. My husband says I shouldn't put it in anything, even when the recipe calls for it. I know that my body reacts negatively to it and that it is...
Celebrity Spokesperson: Weighty Considerations
from People.com We’re all familiar with celebrities endorsing diets. Some seem more genuine that others. Certain actors use their role as spokesperson to increase their exposure or energize a lagging career. Others, Jennifer Hudson comes to mind in this group, appear...
Unrealistic Serving Sizes or Unrealistic Consumers?
On Tuesday I was contacted by Good Morning American to tape a segment on serving sizes. I shuffled my afternoon calendar and made my way over to Fairway Market to meet their crew. The news of the day involved a request by CSPI (often referred to as the food police)...
What's More Important Cardio or Weights and Should You Do it Twice a Day?
I had lunch with an old friend yesterday. By old I mean a friend I’ve know since grade school, god knows we’re so far from old. We talked about work. He teaches film at Columbia and is in the process of making his first feature film. We moved onto friends, some soon...
What’s More Important Cardio or Weights and Should You Do it Twice a Day?
I had lunch with an old friend yesterday. By old I mean a friend I’ve know since grade school, god knows we’re so far from old. We talked about work. He teaches film at Columbia and is in the process of making his first feature film. We moved onto friends, some soon...
Seven Links, Five Great Blogs No Partridge or Pear Tree
from Istock, I don't have that much free time. In the early days of this blog, I read a post on a friend’s well-established blog (AKA as blog people actually read and enjoy) about meeting some of her blogging friends. At that point blog friends was as foreign a...
Favorite Frozen Treats and Confession
Soft Serve Fruit Co To me, summer means the sweet local corn, gazpacho, ceviche and the perfect glass of rose'. I realize my list omitted many people’s cool, creamy, summery favorite ice cream. After our frozen yogurt fuss of last summer, we’re not going to mention...
My Spices are Alphabetized by Desk is a Mess
The desk that inspired it all, not mine it's Fit Chick's If you came to my kitchen you could open my spice drawer and see bottles alphabetized from Arrowroot to Vanilla Bean. In my refrigerator there’s usually a pitcher of iced tea, another of filtered water,...
There Are Bad Foods and Bad Kids Too
This "wonderful child" isn't anyone I know I know there are some people who think all children are wonderful. After nine-plus years of parenting and plenty of play dates I know this is not true. There was one child who expressed his disappointment at having to leave...
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