7 Tips for a Healthy Vacation

By guest blogger Mao Shing Ni, DOM, PhD, ABAAHP, LAc; author of the bestselling book Secrets of Longevity. Summer is a big season for traveling. Here are some ways to keep your health and longevity intact on your journey. Flexibility …

La Boqueria of Barcelona: A Shrine to Food

In America, we think we are hot stuff because of all our growing farmer’s markets across the country. Or in Manhattan, a place like Eataly seems like a whole new invention. And then you go to Barcelona, which, like many …

The Picasso Museum of Barcelona: An Artist’s Life

I’m not a big fan of Picasso, I am sorry to say. But when I found myself in Barcelona recently with my 14-year-old daughter, I felt we had to do something other than shop and eat, something redeeming with our …

Cooking for Solutions at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, Part 2—with the Chefs!

The second part of Cooking for Solutions (see part 1) involved cooking, and lots of it! On Saturday night, 2,500 people paid $150 per person to roam about the aquarium and drink wine and eat small dishes to their hearts’ …

Cooking for Solutions at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, Part 1

Every once in a while, when get invited to speak somewhere, I accept more because I know the person asking me than because I know what I’m actually signing up for. Such was the case when Myra Goodman, cofounder of …

Highlights from The Future of Food Conference

Highlights from The Future of Food Conference Where to begin? Well, how about with a brilliant speech by HRH Prince Charles that was practical, spiritual, and sharp. He’s not new to organic, so his passion for the topic of the …

What It’s Like to Meet Prince Charles

It started with a mysterious email from Eric Schlosser, who wrote the forward to my book Organic Manifesto. For security reasons, I couldn’t tell anyone anything until a few days beforehand. I just had to be in Georgetown, Washington, DC, …