Hot dish from celebrity chefs:

1. Rocco’s Low-Cal Meal Makeovers – VIDEO (ABC GOOD MORNING AMERICA)
2. BBC reprimanded after celebrity chef swears on cookery show (TELEGRAPH)
3. Wolfgang Puck makes everyone a winner at Oscar bash (REUTERS)
4. Lil Wayne’s Ass Gets Cleaning Tip from Paula Deen – VIDEO (TMZ)
5. TV chef Heston Blumenthal gives brands advice in C4 food show (MARKETING MAGAZINE)
6. Jose Andres wins culinary arts prize (WASHINGTON POST)

Fresh from the market:

1. How to Make Butter – SLIDESHOW (GUARDIAN)
2. Lobster Prices Too Low for Harvester’s Taste (CNN MONEY)
3. America: Land of Cheeseheads & Chicken Lovers (NPR)
4. Let Them Eat Posh Cake (TIMES ONLINE)
5. New Orleans Sweet Rice Fritters (Calas) (SALON)
6. Tom Douglass to Open New Restaurants (SEATTLE TIMES)

Each week I focus on articles and tips for Healthy Living (nutrition, fitness, weight loss, etc.)

Articles:

1. Wellness coaches target women’s heart health (FREEP.COM)
2. Taking Control Of Diabetes With Dr. Neal Barnard – New PBS Series (KPBS)
3. A trio of hearty winter salads (MERCURY NEWS)
4. Many of us are wired in the brain to eat: Sugar, fat and salt can stimulate much like tobacco, alcohol and cocaine (CANADA.COM)
5. Frugality and fresh food: a natural fit? (CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR)

Tips:

1. Chef Melissa Kelly’s book, Mediterranean Women Stay Slim, Too is an excellent resource for delicious recipes using healthy ingredients including olive oil, garlic, nuts and vegetables. Kelly’s version of a French Rouille sauce — red pepper, oil and bread crumbs served as a spread or topping — offers a spicy kick with the addition of a roughly chopped jalapeño pepper.
2. Try Président® brand’s Fat Free Feta Cheese Crumbles sprinkled over a salad or as a topping for an egg-white omelet.
3. Justin’s Natural Chocolate Almond Butter is now available in portion controlled single-serving snack packs. With zero cholesterol, 13-percent of your daily fiber needs, iron and calcium — Justin’s “butter” is a great alternative to grabbing a candy bar. Eat a heaping tablespoon full and you’ll obtain the taste-satisfaction of eating a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup — with much less sugar and saturated fat. Try the creamy, dreamy chocolate spread on a whole wheat tortilla and add even more fiber to your diet.
4. Labne is a spreadable yogurt cheese found throughout the Mediterranean that contains live probiotic cultures. Karoun’s “Kefir Cheese Labne” tastes as lush as cream cheese, yet is much lower in fat. I find the product at my local Whole Foods Market and use it as a spread (on crackers), a dip (with veges), or to add a creamy richness to soups.

LEARN MORE about the food you eat with these tasty links:

1. How Dolley Madison Saved the Day (SMITHSONIAN) & American Experience: Dolley Madison – VIDEO (PBS)
2. Why Are There No Great Women Chefs? – PDF (GASTRONOMICA)
3. Foodways in 1910 (MONTANA HERITAGE PROJECT)
4. World’s Oldest Cooking Pots (BBC)
5. Slippery Business (THE NEW YORKER)
6. Louisiana Foodways in Ernest Gaines’s A Lesson Before Dying (FOLKLIFE IN LOUISIANA)

A baker’s dozen…

1. Crain’s Restaurateurs Hall of Fame (CRAIN’S)
2. Chicken Man Shot – VIDEO (CNN)
3. Extra mustard sauce please (CITY PAPER)
4. Six ways supermarkets trick you to spend more money (SHINE)
5. Cassava a reliable food, cash crop in these hot, dry times (BUSINESS MIRROR)
6. The design lover’s dream restaurants and bars (INDEPENDENT)
7. Woman Finds Finger in Salad, Sues IHOP (KTVA)
8. Season 6 Ep. 8: Anthony Bourdain – Obsessed Extended Clip – VIDEO (YOUTUBE)
9. Martha Stewart Prepping Reality Series (VARIETY)
10. Heston Serves His Moveable Feast – VIDEO (EATER)
11. El Bulli Move Over — Noma’s Culinary Challenge: Richard Vines (BLOOMBERG)
12. 24 Secret Restaurant Menus Revealed (COUPON SHERPA)
13. Kicking it with kimchi (KOREA HERALD)