Health

When it comes to impressing dinner guests, presentation is just as important as the food itself—if not more. And when it comes to feeding your kids? Equally key. Enter Patrick Bertoletti and his newly opened, Chicago-area Taco in a Bag, where customers are served gourmet nachos in a fun, mylar sack that are based on the […]

The Twix was my go-to candy bar, my movie companion, my lunchtime fascination, my trade-anything-for-it Halloween treat. When the mini-Twix came out, long after I became an adult who no longer had the metabolism to eat them daily, I thought them heaven-sent, even though their arrival meant I would simply hide in my laundry room and mow

We all have bad weeks. This has been one for me. I stayed up late working on Saturday, we had friends over for dinner on Sunday and Monday, and I had an event (with David Lebovitz for his new book, My Paris Kitchen!) on Tuesday. This meant there was no time for thinking ahead and preparing

  The difference between professional athletes and the rest of the world lies not only in their physical strength and ability—it also has to do with their mental endurance. Strong mental stamina is the secret to training at an extraordinary level. Similar to physical strength, you can build up mental stamina with training and it will benefit all areas of

The muscle-bound trainer posed the question to me carefully: “What kind of workouts do you normally do?” “Spin class and yoga,” I said. My panic was palpable. The five instructors in the room were football-player massive, and there was unfamiliar fitness equipment in an obstacle course around the room, bolted to the walls and neatly

Ice-cold treats are one of the hallmarks of summer (cue the Mister Softee chimes), as are the bounty of fresh fruit and berries. So how do you convince your kids to eat more of the fresh-fruit variety vs. the creamy, corn-syrup-laden ones? By sneaking them into homemade popsicles. While the store-bought pops are an obvious and covenient option, we’ve

In the past year, there’s been an 8.4 percent jump in the number of people swimming for fitness, making it one of the fastest-growing workouts, according to the Sports and Fitness Industry Association. “Swimming is amazing cardio, it improves full-body strength and flexibility and without impact on joints,” says Ellis Peters, a swim couch at Equinox in New

My weakness is bakeries. I will cross bridges and tunnels and then some in search of the perfect croissant, brownie, cream puff—you name it. I never met a piece of loaf cake I didn’t like, and I’d be hard-pressed to pass up a gourmet donut. A meal is unfinished without something sweet to signal the end. Unfortunately,

Some days, it’s a struggle to carve out 30 minutes for exercise. An hour? Forget it. If I’m not rushing to my son’s basketball game, I’m in a work meeting that’s running late, or I’m trying to squeeze in a date night with my husband. How many times have you skipped your workout because you didn’t have