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The Importance of Food Heritage
Food provides a window into our culture. Celebrated chef Marcus Samuelsson talks about the soul of American food, specifically Black food traditions, and how the origins of what and how we cook both influences and connects us.
The Plant-Powered Athlete
Prioritizing plant foods can benefit both your health and your fitness performance. Three athletes share how they fuel their active pursuits — and with great success.
Looking to Eat a Mediterranean Diet? Here Are 6 Staple Foods.
Learn why these six foods are so good for your health — and how to incorporate them into your diet.
All Rise: Marcus Samuelsson
The celebrated chef talks about Black food traditions, community kitchens, and the soul of American food.
4 Food Brands Doing Good for the Earth
Life Time is committed to improving the health of our planet, including offering products with their own sustainability efforts like these ones available in the LifeCafe.
7 Tips to Pick the Perfect Bottle of Wine
Discover what’s in your wine and learn how to make healthy and tasty choices with this insightful guide.
Is Butter Good for Us — or Not?
Everything is better with butter — but is butter healthy or not? We talked to some integrative-health experts to find out.
How to Bring Meaning to Mealtime
Here are five ways to help you reconnect to food — and those you love.
The Power of Simple Food Rituals
Small gestures can make a big difference in how we experience and appreciate our food — and each other.
What’s in Your Wine?
Most bottles contain more than just grapes and yeast. Find out which ingredients find their way into wine — plus seven tips to make healthier choices without sacrificing taste.
Pour a Glass? The Pros and Cons of Wine
Is wine really a healthier choice when it comes to alcohol? Learn about wine’s effects on our health and get advice for how to choose healthier wines — plus tips for which ones pair best with certain foods.
Drink Up? The Pros and Cons of Coffee
Is coffee good for you? Bad for you? Something in between? Anika Christ, RD, joins us to talk about how coffee can be part of a healthy nutrition plan, so long as you keep a few key considerations in mind. Plus, she shares some of her own good-for-you coffee drinks.
Food Science: How Food Is Engineered to Create Cravings
How advanced food technologies mess with our minds and our metabolisms.
4 Tips for Foraging
Foraging for the first time can be intimidating, but there are many ways to ease into the adventure.
How to Start Foraging
Tap into your hunter-gatherer roots by learning to find and eat these five wild plants (plus, three recipes to try with your findings!).
4 Great Foodie Cities
Here are four cities that aren’t known for their food scenes — but ought to be.
The Audacity to Farm
Leah Penniman is on a mission to debunk the myths about black people’s relationship to the land and help a new generation reclaim its agrarian heritage.
Meet Your Farmers
Small-scale farming has never been more challenging. These six resilient growers describe how their connection with the earth — and their customers — keeps them inspired.
A Recipe for Healing: Seamus Mullen
When award-winning chef and restaurateur Seamus Mullen changed his mindset about food, it ultimately changed his health, his career, and his life.
Coach Anika’s Top Tips for Healthy Eating at Home
Many of us are struggling with healthy eating choices while we’re at home — but it doesn’t have to be so hard. Coach Anika Christ, RD, offers practical tips and meal ideas that can make it easier.
How to Get More Bugs in Your Diet
Saving the world, one edible critter at a time? Our deputy editor digs into the research around eating insects and cooks with them too (think cricket flour). Bug appétit!