Healthy happy you.
Looking for inspiration? Well, Tania Katan's memoir, My One-Night Stand With Cancer, will definitely inspire you. This book is not only a touching, moving, real, honest account of her getting breast cancer twice, it is also hilarious. And that is the last thing you'd ever expect from a cancer memoir. She is courageous, brave, and most of all, totally funny. Katan was diagnosed with stage-3 Read more
What the heck is quinoa, anyway? — Kitchen Daily The winner of America's Next Great Restaurant has shuttered two locations. — Eater 10 international dishes to go with June's climbing temperatures. — TLC New food columnist David Tanis talks cooking with cannellinis. — New York Times Why America's food is much safer than you might think. — Grub Street NY Father's Day must make: New York Read more
Now that the holidays are over, we're looking for some simple and delicious meals. Since it's still cold out, Fresh Tart's quick pasta with cream and garlic sounds easy to make, but still rich and indulgent. Inspired by a recent David Tanis/New York Times column about the beauty of having a quick, satisfying pasta in your repertoire, I thought I'd share my recipe - if you can even call it that - Read more
My lifelong relationship with rice has been solid yet stagnant: growing up in a Chinese household, plain white rice served hot out of the rice maker was integral to every lunch and dinner, although it never strayed from its spartan form. Yet recently, my intrigue with this herbed rice salad from David Tanis's latest cookbook has sparked something of a phenomenon. I no longer want to eat plain Read more
