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: Eating
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.…
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…
Are you finishing up your last-minute holiday shopping but still in search of that perfect something for that low carb-loving someone? You can…
November 14 was World Diabetes Day, and organizations around the world brought attention to the disease in various ways. JDRF in the U.S. highlighted…