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Healthy gourmet recipes, wine & spirits, featured restaurants and chefs, cookbook reviews and more for the urban epicure.

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These Are 4 Cleansing Programs to Fire Up Your Fitness

Have you built up frustration with your diet routine? Try these four tasty cleansing programs to deliver a fresh lease on life. Once again, the majority of Americans have resolved...

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This Is What’s Really in Your Food

It’s time to give your shopping list a spring cleaning! Rick offers advice on what to buy organic and what not to buy at all. Everyday health is sustained by how we fuel our...

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This Is Why New York Is a Top Queer Coffee Destination

New York’s obsession with coffee is legendary and well-documented in Erin Meister’s New York City: A Caffeinated History. Historically, Lower Manhattan was the coffee district...

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This Is What It’s Like When You Have to Cancel Your Garden Party

In a city with a rich culture of urban gardening, Sebastian and his fiancé want to celebrate the work they put into their bit of earth. Unfortunately it RSVPs to their party as...

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New American Recipes from the Nation’s Top Foreign-Born Chefs

A Place at the Table: New American Recipes from the Nation’s Top Foreign-Born Chefs Edited by Gabrielle Langholtz & Rick Kinsel; Prestel Press; $40.00 Despite rabid...

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This Is What It’s Like to be Be a Health Guru for People Living with HIV

I’m Timothy Eric Stahl, and I’m an HIVegan Guru at TEN: Timothy Eric Nutrition. HIV, once an obvious killer is now, quite frankly, a quiet, subtler killer. Are you...

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What You Can and Can’t Eat on a Gluten Free Diet

What’s forbidden when you go gluten-free? You might have noticed gluten-free foods in your local supermarket. These are both for people who’ve been diagnosed with a gluten...

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Ronan Is One of the Best LA Restaurants on Melrose

Sotto’s influence continues to resonate, bringing more great gourmet/casual Italian to LA’s dining scene. Enormous, eye-catching mural by local artist? Check. Romantic,...

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6 Healthy Fish Recipes That Will Make Your Mouth Water

Below you’re find five healthy fish recipes by food blogger Gayle Van Wely: Black Bass with Bacon Dashi, Salmon Poke, Bacon-Wrapped Scallop with a Bloody Mary, Smoked...

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Want Other Gay Guys to Notice Your Body This Summer? Start Planning!

Having a beach-beautiful body requires planning. So if you want to look trim this summer, it’s time to start packing your meals ahead of time. Here’s how: Plan Your...

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The Latest Health Crazes: Here’s What Gets Results — and What Doesn’t

Considering going keto? Concerned about your qi? Alarmed about whether you’re alkaline? We serve up five recent books about current health crazes and gauge the results. With...

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The Protein Bakery

How a Fitness Fan Turned His Cookie Craving Into a Protein-Packed Healthy Snack

The familiar aroma of freshly baked blondies, brownies and cookies that permeates the interior of The Protein Bakery is likely to arouse feelings of nostalgia, but the treats...

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