Article Archive for Health & Wellness

4 vegetarian holiday recipes for your table

From its inception, Martha Rose Shulman's Recipes for Health has been one of NYTimes.com's most-read features. Now some of her...

Food and exercise strategies PLUS what to do with all those leftovers!

In my 15 years of counseling clients on weight loss, I have learned lots about what really causes people to gain weight. And...

As a kid, one of my favorite things about Thanksgiving was Ocean Spray's Jellied Cranberry Sauce. I liked the once-a-year treat...

Try this recipe for a cool, yummy, quick-prep salad that makes a complete meal. It was a winner in the Mambo Sprouts original...

How to make this Thanksgiving easy on the planet

You don’t have to go cold tofurkey to green your Thanksgiving meal. Try these six ways to have a celebration full of all your...

Give Tom Turkey a break this season with this vegetarian feast

Thanksgiving is, hands down, my favorite holiday of the year. There's no stress of gift-giving, no major decorating to contend...

A vegan recipe with SOUL!

The seed for my new cookbook, Vegan Soul Kitchen: Fresh, Healthy, and Creative African American Cuisine, was sown back in 2003...

No animals were harmed in the making of this dessert...

This is the easiest chocolate cake in the world — perhaps in the universe! You don't even need eggs, butter, or milk, and you...

Make homemade, nontoxic fake blood to complete your Halloween costume or haunted house.

Got a last-minute Halloween party or haunted house visit on the horizon but you don’t have a costume yet? Don’t be afraid. Take a...

Pre-packaged ideas for some healthy trick or treats!

It's Halloween and you have three choices when the legions of devils, witches, Harry Potters and Darth Vaders ring your doorbell...