health food
Peruvian Soul Food Is Made with Natural Viagra
Maca, the radish-like root vegetable used in traditional Peruvian cooking, has joined teff and freekeh as another grainy “superfood.” High in nutrients, some Peruvian chefs say the powder can also boost sexual function.
Apparently Pork Scratchings Are a Health Food Now
A fitness food company has created what it claims to be the world’s first high protein pork scratching, transforming the pub nibble into a musclehead snack of choice.
This Superfruit Is Fighting Malnutrition in Zambian Orphanages
With ten times more antioxidants than oranges and six times more vitamin C, baobab fruit jam is a bonafide superfood. But it has a less faddy use on the menu at Zambian orphanages.
The Middle East Really Likes Vegan Snack Bars
While British diners were busy gorging on Ottolenghi and tabbouleh, the Middle East developed a taste for dairy and gluten-free UK imports.
Joining a Cult Might Be Bad for Your Diet
From the Flavor Aid (not Kool-Aid) at Jonestown to Rev. Sun Myung Moon's fat-shaming sermons, cults have a history of using food as one of their many tools of control. But hey, at least some of them made salad dressing to die for.
Vegetarian Children Are a Complicated Breed of Eaters
In 2014, hipster baby have gotten out of control, but now there’s a revolution of young children who are full-on, hardcore vegans and vegetarians.
The Happi-Fork - New Fiction from the Author of 'Twenty Grand' and 'Other Tales of Love and Money'
Being present isn’t easy, especially since the death of my favorite client, the handsome banker Dirk Goldfinger, whose conviction for insider trading was last fall’s big news, and since I attended his wake this spring and subsequently, at a party for...
It's Too Easy to Mock Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop
I love Goop. Gwyneth Paltrow's lifestyle platform might have been its own punchline since it launched, but to me, it's pure escapism. Haters will hate, but with her emotional water and sugar-free baking, she is bigger than all of us.
I Went to a Health Food Convention and Did Unhealthy Things
I've been to a lot of health food conventions where I've gotten high or wasted with fellow "healthy" types. At this year's convention, I met a woman with a daughter named "Rainbeau," ate fake Taco Bell tacos, and hung...
I Went to a Health Food Convention and Did Unhealthy Things
I've been to a lot of health food conventions where I've gotten high or wasted with fellow "healthy" types. At this year's convention, I met a woman with a daughter named "Rainbeau," ate fake Taco Bell tacos, and hung out with Adrian Grenier.
Bass Kleph's Hounds Of Hell Tour Diary
Hounds Of Hell? Try Hounds Of Health. Be prepared for smiley faces and headbanging too.
Living, Learning, and Going Long with Gypsy Boots, America’s First Hippie
I met Gypsy Boots in 1970, before I knew he was the nationally famous founder of the hippie movement, and became friends with him in 1995, nine years before America's archetypal holy fool passed away. Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about him—what he...