Just before the once-in-a-thousand-years heatwave hit the Pacific Northwest, I wrote about beating the heat with a blender and a freezer. (And my beloved watermelon gazpacho recipe.) Today I want to talk a little more about the freezer half of that duo — before the...
For the past couple of weeks I’ve had a song from the musical, Oklahoma!, stuck in my mind. It’s a song I think I’ve only heard once, maybe twice. But it’s absolutely been on repeat on my internal playlist. In the show, it’s about finding commonalities between the...
What’s that picture in the header? If you look carefully you may notice some bubbles: It’s a close up of the salad-smoothie I made on a recent scorching Saturday. (See pictures of the whole thing on Instagram.) It was fast, easy and delicious. And what a...
When a journalist friend messaged me recently for help understanding the ways food choices affect mood, it seemed a good moment to answer publicly. This is obviously a huge topic, and one of my specialties in clinical practice. I co-taught a four-hour course on this a...
Are superfoods a thing? I spent a sunny Sunday morning going down the rabbit hole of food-nutrition research. Why? Because someone on the internet said something … with which I disagreed. A friend posted a short piece about the value of goji berries — a small Asian...
