Today I’m finishing preparations for my annual Father’s Day tradition: making dinner for my dad and brother. I’ve been doing this for...

How often do you appreciate your body, and everything it’s capable of? How often do you notice all the things you don’t like about it? Is...

Most evenings, I treat myself to a Dove dark chocolate, the ones with a brief message inside the wrapper. Most of the times they’re...

I’ve been having fun watching Six Feet Under (courtesy of Netflix), and a recent episode contained a brief discussion about food that...

This past week I read an article by Liz Goodwin titled “Chicago school bans homemade lunches, the latest in national food fight”. I read...

This past week I read an article by Mark Bittman in The New York Times about initiatives that Philadelphia is considering to make healthy...

I don’t generally follow celebrity news, finding it all rather silly and self-absorbed. (Then again, maybe that’s the point.) But...

Ours is not a society that often considers what we eat to be sacred. Those who take communion may think of the wafer that way, although...

Recently at the Philadelphia International Airport, I tried to make use of a fairly long layover by walking around to exercise. I had to...

On a recent work trip, I was obligated to go out to dinner a couple of nights. The first night I didn’t know where we were going until we...