Saying nuts to Nutricate? The apparent success and consumer popularity of municipal laws in New York City, Seattle, Philadelphia and elsewhere that require chain restaurants to post nutritional information on their menus means that (1) more American cities’ elected officials will propose simil...

“Not lunch per se, but where is best Irish Soda Bread in midtown? I get a craving for it every year around St. Pat’s Day and so many places make dry horrible Irish Soda Bread – not like Mom used to make!” Being a short fat Jew, I know nothing about Irish soda bread.  Anybody got [....

Tomorrow happens the L.A. Bike Summit , a bicycle-centric day with big goals! Organized by Joe Linton, aka one of the L.A. Creek Freaks, the Bike Summit will bring together people from Portland to New York to Mexico City with Angelenos to work on strengthening bicycle advocacy, growing bike organiza...

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So I cut out of Alexander Technique class early so I can arrive on time to my 12:30 pm Torah class. I curse at other drivers on the road, particularly one guy ahed of mewho’s stopped and waiting for the opportunity to turn left over double yellow lines to enter a gas station. As I charge down ...

Not that I’m having lunch downtown anymore really, since I’m unemployed. However, I did get the chance to try out Mod Pizza twice before leaving my lonely office aerie early last month. Located at 1302 6th Avenue (Union Square), this place is relatively new to the neighborhood. I should ...

I've recently read a collection of stories by Lara Vapnyar called Broccoli and Other Tales of Food and Love. The six stories in this pretty volume talk about Russian immigrants to the United States, and use the revealing lens of food to show how they adapt to their new lives. Stories about migrants ...

So were making our cake last night for the silent auction at the B&G banquet, and I'm trying to modify the recipe with applesauce to make it less deadly and Mer says "Mom, I have something to tell you" I'm thinking shit, what happened because I dared to try and catch up on work and wasn't at sch...

I don't think that I've announced it here, but since December, I've been on the board of Healthy Schools Campaign. This is such a phenomenal organization, and I am thrilled to be a part of it. Anyway, as many of you know, Dylan goes to our local neighborhood school. It is a Chicago Public School, so...

There are guided instructions on how to install OSX onto the current crop of netbooks. It breaks my heart because the PowerBook Duo line of notebooks actually defined the executive sub-notebook (they also defined the PDA/PIM with the Newton and dropped that ball, too), Why Apple must do a Netbook no...