Food

The fear that meatless cooking is less satisfying or less flavorful has proved groundless. What vegetarian food actually requires is technique, not apology.

An Imperial College study found that a mother's pre-pregnancy BMI shapes her newborn's body fat — including liver fat. The obesity fight may start in the womb.

After a quadruple bypass and a stent, Bill Clinton adopted a plant-based diet and lost 20+ pounds. The story of the most famous vegan convert in politics.

Professor John Speakman's energy-expenditure research found we are not less active than in the 1980s — we just eat a third more. The fork beats the treadmill.

A 2011 University of Tennessee study found marriages happier when the wife's BMI was lower than the husband's. But the headline was better than the truth.

The USDA retired the 19-year-old food pyramid for MyPlate: a simple four-section plate icon unveiled by Michelle Obama and Tom Vilsack.

Floyd Cardoz won Top Chef Masters with wild mushroom upma polenta — a milestone for Indian cuisine in American fine dining.

Mango mousse, mango lassi, and shrikhand — three Indian fruit desserts that ask more of the ripe fruit than of the cook, perfect for summer.

In May 2011 a killer E. coli strain swept northern Germany. Cucumbers took the blame — but the real culprit was fenugreek sprouts.

Parents are buying and selling breast milk online. The demand is real, the risks are real, and the regulated supply can't keep up.

Two ways with peak-season watermelon: a frozen margarita with lime salt, and a spicy watermelon-corn salad with chaat masala.

Ron Levy trained as a fine-arts painter. Then he fell for the clay tandoor — and became America's leading builder of the ancient oven.

A University of Colorado study found fat removed by liposuction returns within a year — elsewhere. Why the body defends its total fat mass.

Blotting a greasy pizza slice or pakodas with a napkin removes a little surface oil — a few dozen calories at most. Modest, but real, and worth knowing.

What the evidence actually supported in 2011: protein's real role in weight management, separated from the fitness industry's hype around binging on it.

Idli in Chennai, parathas in Punjab, kochuri in Kolkata, dhokla in Gujarat — a tour of India’s regional breakfasts, a mosaic of dozens of distinct mornings.

Liquid calories don’t satisfy hunger the way solid food does — and the research on sugary drinks, diet drinks, and alcohol was surprisingly clear even in 2011.

Methi deserves its place in the winter kitchen — fiber, flavor, and genuinely interesting blood-sugar research. But it is not antiviral and not a cure for

Kids come home starving at 4pm. Here is how to build after-school snacks that truly satisfy -- fresh, simple, and Ayurveda-friendly, minus the sugar crash.

Four lunch salads worth adding to your rotation: warm lentil, white bean and tuna, chickpea with tahini, and shaved fennel with citrus.