Cooking & Food

Quick and easy ways to enjoy this colorful, nutrient-packed powerhouse.

The best way to have that cake and eat well, too? Food writer Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl shares her thoughts on making mindful choices that balance health, happiness — and your blood sugar.

Food writer Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl’s self-guided tour of Hmong cuisine inspires an abiding appreciation of culinary adventuring.

With crunchy stalks, tender leaves and gorgeous color, bok choy is versatile, inexpensive and highly nutritious.

Stir-frying cooks up intense flavors in minutes. Here are a few tips that will make you a wok master.

Tasty anchovies, sardines and other small, oily fish are good for you and easy on the environment.

One of the first signs that winter is over, asparagus is bursting with powerful anti-inflammatory and antioxidant nutrients.

Food writer Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl discusses how few things in this world are more divisive — or better for your health — than broccoli.

Struck by a devastating illness in the prime of his life, chef Seamus Mullen didn’t quit cooking — he started experimenting. Here, he talks about how nutrition saved his life — and shares a spring menu made up of some of his fresh favorites.

Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl on how early adopters get all the attention — and why it’s never too late to change the way we eat.

High in protein and gluten-free, quinoa is a nutritious seed that puts conventional whole grains to shame.

Gluten-free desserts have gone mainstream — with good reason. The best recipes are sinfully enticing, and healthy, too.

Winter is the perfect time to cook winter squashes — and to treat your body to their antioxidant, anti-inflammatory goodness.

Simple, wholesome and healthy, eggs are easy to prepare with panache.

Twelve easy and healthy salad dressings you can make at home.

The foods you eat can have a major effect on your brain’s health.

In the fall, farmers’ markets are full of “root-cellar” produce you can roast all winter.

Made from rice, soy, coconut, almonds and more, alternatives to cow’s milk abound. Here’s how to make sense of your options.