Fit Fare

Note: This article is adapted from a post from the author’s blog.

Last month I participated in my first blogging event, hosted by Barbara Fisher at Tigers & Strawberries. The event is called The Spice Is Right, and the theme for April was Ancient Spices. After some deliberation, I decided to use […]

Japanese Women Don’t Get Old or Fat: Secrets of My Mother’s Tokyo Kitchen by Naomi Moriyama and William Doyle

There’s an old phrase about the grass being greener on the other side of the fence. For the first time ever, North Americans are applying that philosophy to eating and dieting. After all, we figure, how can […]

This recipe is part of FitFare’s Week of Soup.

Upon becoming a vegetarian, one becomes more cognizant of eating sufficient protein and, if you are female, getting sufficient iron. Beans can satisfy both requirements.
But there are also good reasons for everyone to eat more beans. When a spectrum of bean types was […]

This recipe is part of FitFare’s Week of Soup.

“Beans, beans the musical fruit…” That’s not exactly how we sang the song when I was a kid, in fact, I believe the song had a phrase about “down yer leg and in yer boot”, but I grew up in Atlantic Canada and we had lots of […]

Indian food is incredible stuff. In the old days, before I was paying much attention to my health, I used to eat at my favorite local Indian joint every Friday. Sadly, my habit didn’t hold up very well to a nutritional analysis; chicken in creamy tomato sauce, naan dripping with ghee, piles of curried garbanzo […]