I’ve spent a lifetime reading nutrition labels on the back of packages and deciding whether to eat a food based on the number of calories it contained.…
Category: Food & Nutrition
Spinach is usually available year-round, but is at its freshest and tastiest in the spring. It’s a fantastically nutritious low carb vegetable,…
Passover: a celebration of freedom and starch.
As a kid, keeping kosher on Passover always stressed me out, since I disliked matzah (or matza or…
Modus Hoperandi. Get to the Hopper. Larry Bird’s Haircut. Those are just a few of the excellent beer names I discovered while researching this…
We know, of course, that avocados are not a traditional Irish food. But potatoes are all carb, and the similarly shaped – and very green –…
My son, Adam, has a severe nut allergy. He’s 8, and very responsible. He knows not to eat anything unless an adult we trust checks the ingredients.…
Peanut butter and chocolate are the perfect combination, like hugs and kisses. Songs could be written about peanut butter and chocolate recipes. …
Cleopatra is said to have dissolved a pearl in vinegar and drunk it, to prove to her lover Mark Antony that she was capable of downing an outrageously…
Some of the cheapest foods available are junk foods – fast food, often carb dense and nutritionally depressing. It can be a challenge to find foods…
ASweetLife’s eight year anniversary was back in October, but it’s been such a busy year we didn’t have a moment to celebrate (and barely even…