Food

“Superfoods” lists promise five magic foods. The truth: it’s the characteristics — fiber, nutrients, whole foods — that matter, not the specific names.

Daikon — mooli — is a culinary foundation across Asia and a digestive aid in traditional medicine. On the radish hiding in plain sight.

Even 100% fruit juice contributes to childhood obesity and tooth decay. On what juicing removes, what the pediatric guidelines say, and why water wins.

The ketogenic diet — a 1920s epilepsy therapy revived by one family's story — quiets seizures where drugs fail. On food as medicine, and its limits.

The pumpkin pie debate is not about pie — it is about memory. On food traditions, addition over substitution, and multicultural Thanksgivings.

The Mid-Day Meal Scheme feeds 120 million Indian schoolchildren daily. Akshaya Patra, its largest NGO partner, drew praise from Obama on his 2010 India visit.

Yogurt-marinated turkey, spiced gravy, cashew-and-raisin stuffing. Where Indian spicing genuinely improves Thanksgiving — and where it doesn't.

Sweet potatoes with mustard seeds beat sweet potatoes with marshmallows. An Indian American Thanksgiving: two generous cuisines, one table.

Turkey alongside biryani, gulab jamun after pumpkin pie. How Indian American families made Thanksgiving their own — and made it better.

Urban Indian families eat out more than ever before — and the family meal was never just about food. What's gained, what's lost, what's worth saving.

The all-you-can-eat buffet runs on one reliable miscalculation: that eating more equals better value. The economics — and the food — say otherwise.

Diabetes is rising fastest in India — and type 2 is overwhelmingly a lifestyle disease. What science says about food, and what Ayurveda said centuries earlier.