Lots of events in the air, it must be spring. Here’s one from Pure: Come expand your nutritional knowledge at Pure Yoga’s Upper East Side location on Tuesday, March 16th. In celebration of National Nutrition Month, Pure welcomes area experts on healthy eating, drinking and living – including a private chef, juicing demos with recipes [...]

More yoga in Harlem! And a free event. Graceline Court, a new condo in Harlem, is offering cooking classes and yoga classes this Saturday, January 23rd. Cooking demonstrations and tastings by Whole Foods Market chefs, focusing on how to cook and eat healthy in the New Year Small-group yoga classes taught by expert instructors from [...]

“Carob is a brown powder made from the pulverized fruit of a Mediterranean evergreen. Some consider carob an adequate substitute for chocolate because it has some similar nutrients (calcium, phosphorus), and because it can, when combined with vegetable fat and sugar, be made to approximate the color and consistency of … chocolate. Of course, the [...]

We can continue hating grapefruit. This is my new food pyramid. From the inimitable xkcd.

Summer’s plenty is finally here, and (if you can pry yourself off of the stone fruits) it’s a great time to pick up some new cooking skills. Bitten. If you don’t know Mark Bittman, you can just go ahead and become his fan now. Author of the Times’ “Minimalist” food column, he’s become the traditional [...]

This sounds super fun: PURE BLISS: Brunch & Yoga w/ The Discerning Brute & Barefoot Tiger Saturday, May 30th, 2009 10:30am Yoga 12:00pm Brunch What could be better than mixing a spring Saturday, a yummy vinyasa flow yoga class with Kendra of Barefoot Tiger, and a scrumptious vegan brunch by the Discerning Brute himself, Joshua Katcher? [...]

OK, random post because I am really excited about my breakfast. I have never been a smoothie person, I am not satisfied with breakfast until I get to chew something like Thai food or brussels sprouts, but this one is GREAT. It has about 25 grams of protein, which is right about a third of [...]

I just came back from yoga brunch. Best. idea. ever. We had a fabulous class with Aarona Pichinson, then a delicious brunch afterwards. I looked up and it was 1:15 — I’d been there since 10am. Om Factory is such a cozy place I could stay there all day. (Full disclosure: I used to teach [...]

Have you ever wondered if your shampoo is poisoning your brain? Did you know Downy contains horse fat? Do you care if your soap was packaged in a sweat shop? It’s overwhelming, trying to keep ingredients and brands sorted out. There was a great web page a while ago called “Everything Gives You Cancer,” but [...]

My friend and I were talking about nutrition this weekend, as I am wont to do, and the price of organic food came up. Here in New York, where a small box of shredded wheat is often $7, it’s hard to conceive of committing to an even more expensive lifestyle. (I’ve seen some marketing articles [...]