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Dining Alfresco: 5 Recipes for the Perfect Picnic
Summer is an ideal excuse for eating outdoors. Here are inspiring new ways to create a meal you’ll savor.
7 Tips to Add More Color to Your Diet
Trying to eat more colorful fruits and veggies? Try these simple ideas.
Feast Your Eyes: The Importance of Your Meal’s Visual Appeal
Behind that old saying my eyes were bigger than my stomach stands a basic food truth: Visual appeal counts for a lot.
Healing Meals: 7 Gut-Friendly Recipes
Restore your gut and revive your health with these nourishing recipes inspired by the GAPS healing protocol.
Luscious Lamb
No longer “the other red meat,” this delicacy has earned a reputation for rich flavor and nutrition that’s all its own.
Healthy Green Recipes for St. Patrick’s Day
Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with a spread of green-food goodness from our recipe archives.
Learn How to Make a Whole-Food Protein Smoothie
This portable smoothie from Dr. Mark Hyman can power the busiest of days. It’s 100 percent whole, real food — with plenty of plant proteins, healthy fats, fiber, and potent phytonutrients.
Amazing Avocados: 6 Creative Recipes, Techniques, and More
An array of wholesome ways to prepare one of the healthiest foods you can eat.
Full-Spectrum Eating
Trying to weather the storm of nutrition advice? Seek out a rainbow of colorful produce, and you’ll find a big pot of phytonutrient gold.
6 Home-Cooked Meals From Laurie David
Homemade meals can help us lose weight, develop healthy-food habits, and enrich our relationships. Dinner’s on!
Modern Miracle
Behold the beauty of the midwinter egg. May we never again take it for granted.
4 Healthy Recipes for Thanksgiving Leftovers
Four quick and easy recipes to try after Turkey Day.
Overcoming Grain Brain
A renowned functional-medicine neurologist says we are suffering an epidemic of neurological illnesses. The best cure may be at the end of our forks — here are three recipes to try.
How to Broaden Your Palate
Reasons to find the courage to face the foods that freak you out.
Kitchen Literacy: 10 Must-Have Cookbooks
After years of working in restaurants and cooking at home, James Beard Award–winning food writer Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl dishes on her favorites.
Building Kitchen Confidence
EL‘s Heidi Wachter on the surprising rewards of learning to cook.
30 Uses for Coconut Oil
Looking for more ways to use this superfood? Here are some creative ways to put it to work.
5 Gluten-Free Pizza Recipes
Creative, gluten-free crusts everyone can enjoy, plus an inspired array of nutritious toppings.
Rethinking the School Lunchbox: Healthy Meal Makeovers
Three of our favorite nutritionists revamp kids’ lunches to create meals the whole family can enjoy.
Savoring Salmon: Recipes, Techniques, and More
Enticing and unexpected ways to enjoy this super-healthy fish.
Leaf Literacy
Leafy foods are terrific for you — and they can be a little confusing. Food writer Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl on all you really need to know.