It’s Foodie Friday, and with the weather all crisp and cool, my mind is my favorite daily drink–tea.  Not the leaves themselves, though, but the vessel in which we boil the water to make this healing, warming beverage.  What is the best balance of safety (ie no-boiling-water-in-leach-y-plastics, please!), beauty (tea is a pretty drink, after…

It’s rare that I’m blown away by a cookbook (which have been known to prop things around my house), but The Cancer Fighting Kitchen: Nourishing, Big-Flavor Recipes for Cancer Treament and Recovery, Rebecca Katz’s second book (co-written with Mat Edelson), is rad. My friend and I made recipes out of her other collection, One Bite…

Fresh Living is, as you know, a holistic health blog.  But we’ve–so far–refrained from a single post about the biggest health-related issue before the chattering class: health care reform.  There are reasons for that, including our desire to focus more on our–and your–lives and the healthy choices we can make, as opposed to the public…

Want to hear something embarrassing about my morning?  Our kitchen designer was here with some guys to measure and template out the countertop.  They arrived at 8:30, and we were chatting and making decisions about where to put the seam (sigh) and other such details. At a break in the conversation, Rob said, “hey, come…

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