Healthy Eating

Vegan Couple Brings Own Pasta to Restaurant, Gets Charged Double for Order, and Refuses to Pay

According to an article on a New Jersey news site, a vegan couple dining out at a local Italian restaurant says the restaurant's owner charged them twice as much as they should have been charged for two pasta dinners. The owner justified the price by the fact that the couple had brought their own wh ... More >>

Who Needs Food When You Could Just Drink Soylent?

Rob Rhinehart is a busy software engineer who was resentful of "The inordinate amount time it takes to fry an egg." So he did what any rational slightly crazy person would do: He cracked open a couple of physiology textbooks, jumped on the Internet, and ordered all the chemical components necessary ... More >>

New Late-Night Salad and Sandwich Shop Opens in Old Town Scottsdale

Restaurants touting fresh salads and sandwiches are nothing new, but if you're on the go and want to eat healthy, it's nice to know when there's a new one in the neighborhood. And (bonus) this one stays up late. See also: - Quick Service Pan-Asian Restaurant Chain from Canada Opens First Store in ... More >>

9 Simple Steps to Eating Healthier in 2013

It's that special time of year, when your blood sugar has reached near-critical levels, your cholesterol numbers are well above your IQ, and you vow to really start eating healthy. No seriously, guys -- this time you mean it. And while the dramatic conclusion to trek off into the abandoned wildern ... More >>

Eater's Digest

Beauty Trick: Eat Your Fruits and Vegetables

You've heard the old wives' tale that eating an abundance of carrots turns your skin orange. Well, it's really true. A study led by Ross Whitehead, a graduate student in psychology at Scotland's University of St. Andrews, discovered that if you eat lots of food rich in carotenoids (like carrots) ... More >>

How Do I Make Healthy Pancakes?

Amy Morris​ Welcome to our new(ish) column, "Ask the Pastry Chef," by Amy Morris, a pastry sous chef at J&G Steakhouse. Have a question for Amy? Leave it in the comments section.Today's question: How do I make healthy pancakes?After last week I felt a bit guilty for tempting you wi ... More >>

Flour Power: A Pastry Chef's Guide

Amy Morris​Welcome to our new(ish) column, "Ask the Pastry Chef," by Amy Morris, a pastry sous chef at J&G Steakhouse. Have a question for Amy? Leave it in the comments section. Today's question: Can you tell me about these different kinds of flour I see on the grocery shelf? The kind ... More >>

Five Quick Breakfast Spots in Metro Phoenix

​In an effort to make mom proud, Chow Bella's taking a good, hard look at the most important meal of the day in the form of Scrambled, a weekly review of local breakfast spots.Fast-food is never the answer -- not even when you're running late.  No matter how many times we press ... More >>

ZPizza Helping "Kids LiveWell" and Eat Well

​The NRA (not that NRA), the National Restaurant Association, is rolling out a new initiative to encourage restaurants to offer something different from cheezburgers, grilled cheeze, nugget shapes, fried potatoes and a "juice" on kids' menus. It's called "Kids EatWell." The focus is on "inc ... More >>

Follow Friday: Phoenix Nutrition Experts

http://getyourbodystrong.com/​It's that time again. We've compiled a small but meaningful list of great Twitter accounts for any Phoenix foodie to follow. If our bodies aren't already pool/beach ready, we're kinda screwed. The heat is here and we're already dying for some respite. If you're ... More >>

Chef's table at ZuZu and Spring Vegetable Sesame Tofu in Today's Eater's Digest

Family Fresh Cooking​ Hungry for your early morning serving of food news, with no preservatives or additives?Spring Chef's DinnerEvery month, Scottsdale's ZuZu at Hotel Valley Ho turns one boring Monday night into an exciting evening of food and drinks. The Month of May is no exception. Monday, Ma ... More >>

A Quick Guide to Grains

Carol Blonder grains and seeds​ One of our tips for cooking meatless is to prepare a pot of grain over the weekend, mostly brown rice, and have it on hand to add to soups, stocks, and casseroles or to make a fresh grain and vegetable salad during the week. Going meatless one day a week is m ... More >>

Jamba Juice Probiotics and Sweet Potato Soup in Today's Eater's Digest

sharemykitchen.com​Hungry for your early morning serving of food news, with no preservatives or additives?Jamba Juice Goes ProbioticThis week Jamba Juice debuted its latest addition to their line of healthy fruit filled drinks. The new Probiotic Fruit and Yogurt Blends come in three nutritious fla ... More >>

The House at Secrect Garden's Blues Night and Spicy Veggie Stir-Fry in Today's Eater's Digest

www.handletheheat.com​ Hungry for your early morning serving of food news, with no preservatives or additives?Blues in the BarnThe House at Secret Garden is quickly become a new Phoenix hot spot, despite it's south central location. Tonight, see for yourself what all the buzz is about while enjoyi ... More >>

Kick Off Meatless Mondays with Vegetarian Chili

Meatless Mondays​ We believe in the adage everything in moderation, no extreme exclamations are on our list of New Year resolutions. Which is why we like the idea of Meatless Monday, a movement that has been quietly growing since 2003 appealing to authors, nutritionists, filmmakers, health p ... More >>

2010 Redux: Books

Carol Blonder Books we like As we bid farewell to the year and look ahead to 2011, for the next two weeks Chow Bella contributors will bring you some greatest hits from 2010. First up: Carol Blonder's most memorable food-related books. ​Making a list of picks for the top 5 books on food pu ... More >>

Jessica Seinfeld on Her New Book and Being First in Line at Pizzeria Bianco This Weekend

Image courtesy of Jessica Seinfeld​ Jessica Seinfeld is ready to turn over a new leaf -- or a page from a new book, rather. In April, a federal appeals court ruled in her favor after claims that the ideas behind her first cook book, Deceptively Delicious, had been copied from another author. ... More >>

Dr. Andrew Weil Offers Sage (and Tofu) Advice at True Food Kitchen

It was standing room only last Thursday at True Food Kitchen at the Biltmore, where nutrition and health expert Dr. Andrew Weil weighed in on healthful breakfast options and answered audience questions about everything from vitamin deficiencies to quinoa (which isn't a grain as most people thin ... More >>

Toast to Your Health With the First Acai Berry Spirit

veevlife.com​OK so no alcohol is really healthy for you (despite our best efforts to convince ourselves otherwise), but VeeV is just about the closest booze can get to nutritious because its main ingredient is one of the world's healthiest foods.

Eat More Bananas, Lose Weight?

​That's the message Dole wants to convey. The company recently launched a "banana diet" plan that includes lots of consumption of the yellow fruit in hopes of trimming down waistlines of consumers. According to www.dolebananadiet.com, bananas are high in resistant starch, which boosts fat b ... More >>

Slow Food Phoenix Fights Fatty School Lunches

​Slow Food Phoenix says that the current standard of fast food and junk food in school lunches serves the escalating obesity and diabetes epidemic in America. (Not to mention, there's the ethical sketchiness of putting Taco Bell and Pizza Hut products in schools.) So to raise awareness, ... More >>

Scottsdale Weight Loss Docs Release Smart Phone Application That Rates Nutritional Value of Our Food; Is there Anything an iPhone Can't Do?

www.mapds.com​As if our double chins and beer guts weren't painful enough of a reminder as to how unhealthy we all are, now our iPhones can scold us into healthier eating habits, too. Two Scottsdale weight loss doctors have created a smart phone application that gauges and rates the nutrition ... More >>

Meat 'N' Greet

Missed tailgating and football? They’re back.

Cooking School Secrets: Controlling Pesticides

If cost were not part of the equation, I'd choose to eat organic everything. After all, who wants to eat toxic chemicals or feed it to our children? But money does matter and, like most of the people I know, I am always trying to find my way to a healthier diet. Studies have shown that organic pro ... More >>

First Taste: True Food at Biltmore Fashion Park

How do health-conscious stores Fresh & Easy, Sprouts, and Sunflower compare with the mainstream?

The Skinny: Dainty dining at The Tea Shoppe

Chill sweetens up Tempe

Diet From Hell

A valley vegan couple's fear of obesity was no picnic for their kids

Slim Chance

Resolving to eat better? Here's a week's worth

McRibbing

A man eats fast food for a month -- guess what happens

LET'S GET PHYSICAL:

Pumping up and slimming down

Number Crunching

Calculating tasty calorie, after tasty calorie

Low calories, high steaks

Best Restaurant Potato Chips

Jilly's American Grill

best Healthful Eating

Persian Garden Cafe

At Livingston's, Don't Presume

Low-fat radicals launch an attack on soul food in Scottsdale.

Garden Notoriety

Middle Eastern cuisine gets a peaceful treatment at Persian Garden

Best Place To Fulfill Your Apple-a-day Quota

Candy's Apples

Best Vegan Restaurant

Desert Greens Cafe

Best Wurst Case Scenario

Schreiner's Fine Sausage

Second Helpings

Second Helpings

Soy, Happy New Year Tofu

Second Helpings

SECOND HELPINGS

HEALTH'S KITCHEN

SECOND HELPINGS

The Cap'n Does Lean Cuisine

A nutritional lesson from the deputies of diet