From the Vitality Food Feature 'STALKING THE WILD FIDDLEHEADS'. Both the French and Italians use this method to employ steam to cook poultry, fish, or vegetables. A folded pouch or parcel is created from parchment paper and then the individual parcels are baked and served to the delight of the diner, who must pierce the […]

From the Vitality Food Feature 'STALKING THE WILD FIDDLEHEADS'. Ingredients 2 cups fresh wild greens: dandelion, watercress, purslane, lambs quarters, mixed with spinach or mesclun greens 1 small onion, thinly sliced 5 Tbsp walnut or extra virgin olive oil 3 Tbsp pure maple syrup ¼ cup crumbled feta or goat cheese 1) In a salad […]

From the Vitality Food Feature 'GIFTS FROM THE KITCHEN'. Rich tasting, but not loaded with fat, this conserve makes a sweet-tart chocolate sauce and topping for all sorts of desserts. The keys to this textural delight: start with cooking apples, cook them until they are soft, and purée them in a food processor or blender […]

From the Vitality Food Feature 'GIFTS FROM THE KITCHEN'. SPICE BLENDS I found a well-stocked Indian grocery store on Gerrard Street West in Toronto with an entire wall devoted to spices that are fresh, whole, and most importantly, decently priced. I’m sure there are similar spice sellers all across the city, and it’s important that […]

Ice cold and bursting with flavour and nutrition, smoothies are the invention of enterprising California beach shack owners, who improved on the puréed fruit drinks of Brazil around the mid-sixties. They whizzed up fresh strawberries with orange juice, bananas, and lots of ice, and called their chilled refresher a smoothie… and a multi-billion dollar industry […]

Every year, more people switch to a healthy, plant-based diet. There is no doubt that the earth and its inhabitants fare better when meat is not a priority at dinner, or breakfast or lunch, for that matter. The flexitarian diet is a food movement and a way of life putting the emphasis on tolerance, moderation, […]

When it comes to food and health, black is both beautiful and beneficial. While green is hailed as the eco-health standard, new food research is revealing that the dark side of nature holds good things as well. According to doctors James Joseph and Daniel Nadeau (see Resources), “In the ORAC* tests at Tufts, blue foods […]

 Tiny, brilliant orbs of pure health, berries are the jewels of the fruit world. Not only are these gems beautiful in colour – they range from almost black to purple and blue to ruby-red and even orange – summer berries are rich in anthocyanins, nature’s natural antioxidant pigment. It’s those intense jewel tones that protect […]

There is a gardeners’ joke that goes something like this: Why do New Englanders lock their cars only in September? To keep them from being filled with zucchini. Like all great comedic lines, this one is rooted in the truth because the gourd family (Cucurbitaceae) of vegetables includes some 700 different varieties, of which pumpkins, […]

From the Vitality Food Feature 'THE JOY OF JUICING'. One of garlic’s many healing properties is that it promotes sweating — one of the best methods of eliminating toxins from the body. Ingredients: 3 carrots 1 clove garlic 1 handful fresh thyme half a chile half cucumber 1 apple 1) Pass all ingredients through juicer, […]