Category: Food
The Four Pillars of Optimal Health
As much as we would like one, there is no single answer to achieving optimal health. In truth, a healthy lifestyle is one rooted in balance, not quick [...]
Restaurants Keeping It Real
Do you like to eat out? I do! Of course, cooking at home is more cost effective and can be the healthier choice but eating out is fun, relaxing and ca [...]
Diet Can Make a Difference for Irritable Bowel Syndrome
One in ten people suffer from irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), a chronic condition with symptoms including abdominal pain, bloating and distention, exc [...]
Choline Plays an Important Role in Pregnancy
Choline is a critical nutrient during pregnancy that has only recently begun to be more understood. While it is not technically a vitamin by definitio [...]
The Perseverance Diet
In today’s world climate, it is easy to feel as if you are suffocating with the extraordinary demands of life. Yet we all find a way, don’t we? One w [...]
The Relationship Between Food, Mood & Behavior in Children
Mental health disorders among children and adolescents are described as serious changes in the way children typically learn, behave, or handle their e [...]
Restaurants Keeping It Real: Soma Grille
Do you like to eat out? I do! Of course, cooking at home is more cost effective and can be the healthier choice but eating out is fun, relaxing and ca [...]
Restaurants Keeping It Real: The Sweet Beet
Do you like to eat out? I do! Of course, cooking at home is more cost effective and can be the healthier choice but eating out is fun, relaxing and ca [...]
Emotional Intelligence is a Great Dining Companion
You’ve probably heard it said, “You are what you eat.” But do you find yourself eating what you are – feeling, that is? The food we eat may be close [...]
Restaurants Keeping It Real: flora: plant food + drink
Do you like to eat out? I do! Of course, cooking at home is more cost effective and can be the healthier choice but eating out is fun, relaxing and ca [...]
Restaurants Keeping It Real
Do you like to eat out? I do! Of course, cooking at home is more cost effective and can be the healthier choice, but eating out is fun, relaxing and c [...]
Selective Mutism: Natural Approaches for Vocal Restoration
What do you do when your patient or client appears to respond to every instruction you give them yet when you directly ask him or her a question there [...]
Fueling Your Cells with Food: A Naturopathic Perspective
Food is medicine and what we fuel our bodies with determines how our body runs. I recently became certified in the Wahls Protocol which is a diet ther [...]
The Benefits of Local and Farm to Table Eating
“Let Food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food”
~ Hippocrates, 4th century BC
A quick Google search will reveal a list o [...]
Debunking Fad Diets
It seems like every few months, there is a new diet fad. Let’s talk about the most recent popular fad diets.
Ketogenic Diet
A healthier way to do a m [...]
Chef Paul Pearson Provides Delicious Delights at Community Table Restaurant
Growing up in Yorkshire England, Chef Paul Pearson knew exactly what he wanted to do by the age of 12. He became fascinated with food and enjoyed eat [...]
Chris Addley, Creative Chef and Champion of the Culinary Industry’s Rising Stars, Firebox Restaurant, Hartford, CT
Chris Addley is a local Connecticut Chef that wears two crucial hats. He wears his chef hat as the creative genius behind the fine dining, farm-to-tab [...]
Zachariah Campion of Bailey’s Backyard Farm to Table Restaurant and Catering Company
When you walk through the door of Bailey’s Backyard, you are entering a community venue for culinary and artistic treasures. Original art hangs on the [...]
Healthy Eating for Busy Families
Sarah is a full-time working mom that has a passion for home cooking. She is a self-taught chef who spends hours on the weekend teaching her children [...]
Chefs Glorious Chefs, a New Series about Connecticut’s Best Chefs: Drew Stichter, of Hidden Valley Eatery
Drew Stichter’s life was transformed into becoming food conscious in high school, which started his culinary adventure, “My father fell ill with heart [...]
Is Ketogenic Therapy Right For You?
Please understand that mitochondrial and metabolic health is an emerging discipline and only a handful of researchers and even fewer practicing physic [...]
How Do We Learn From Emotional Hunger?
The holidays with their promising cornucopia of delicious food are fast approaching. Perhaps some of us might be already worrying about over-indulgin [...]
Food-Confused?. . .Choose Minimally Processed for Optimal Wellness
"...the most meaningful label on your food . . . is the U.S. Department of
Agriculture (USDA) organic seal. For a product to be certified organic, i [...]
Hartford Baking Company – Artisanal Quality and Locally Made
Hartford Baking Company started from a series of farmer’s market stands in Hartford – at Billings Forge in particular – and grew into a tiny café loca [...]