In honor of Valentine’s Day, let’s talk about sex, baby. Sex plays a fundamental role in our physical and emotional well-being. It’s a basic human need according to Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, along with breathing (very important), food, water, sleep, homeostasis (another term for internal balance)
Let’s face it. Men don’t really need a “food” to get them in the mood, yet for centuries aphrodisiacs have been discussed in reference to what men want or need to increase their libido.
I go to a lot of restaurants and wine bars, both with friends and as required by my demanding editor. But, I rarely return to most of them. The exception — the new Saluté wine bar.
Super Bowl snacking is typically thought of as a carnivorous feeding frenzy, but these vegan-inspired treats will turn even the most bloodthirsty fans into PETA petitioners.
For many kids, New Year’s Eve means chowing down on pizza and soda while watching movies with the babysitter. But my childhood tradition on Dec. 31 was very different.
In my house we are cooking every day lately and enjoying it immensely. The hard part is coming up with new ideas of what to have for dinner. I get that comment all the time in my cooking classes, which is why so many people take classes — to learn new stuff! I have been perusing through old cookbook
DOWNTOWN Restaurant weeks in San Francisco, New York and Boston are the foodie affairs of the year, letting people with refined palates and light wallets get out of restaurant Siberia and hob nob with the regulars.
Whenever I find a restaurant that’s been around longer than I, I know it must be special. Check out the venerable Lula Cucina Mexicana on Main Street.
It is that time of year where many of us are eating leaner and perhaps looking at getting healthy or losing weight. I know in my house we are doing a cleanse, which basically means cutting out all the good stuff — no alcohol, sugar, dairy, meat, coffee or fatty foods.
When it’s time to go out for lunch or dinner, I usually think that anything I would want I can find in Santa Monica. So when the PR people from Sashi invited me to their restaurant in Manhattan Beach, I was skeptical.
Watermelon season is ending in some parts of the U.S., but before it’s all over let us take this time to hone in on why watermelon is so beloved. A recent news headline reads, “Watermelon-eating dog prompts man to stab himself.
