Some of my friends and family members talk about a bowl of pasta like it’s a drug–a food the mere thought of making on a chilly fall evening could send them on a carb spree that would make Marie from Everybody Loves Raymond the proudest mama outread more

When I started cooking without oil about a month ago, I held a silent memorial for roasting: one of my favorite, most satisfying, and easiest vegetable preparations that appeals to non-vegans and is the perfect base for a variety of dishes. Over many years ofread more

When I felt I’d reached a true low point in my life at the ripe age of 26, apathetic about my career, regretting all the choices I’d made leading up to it, and feeling the physical ache of constant low-grade stress gripping my hip flexors and shoulders, Iread more

Do you remember those adorable old Campbell’s soup commercials, where the snowman comes inside the house and a mom serves him soup, only for the warm broth to melt away the snow and reveal a smiling little boy? That’s how I’ve felt (in spirit) the pastread more

“It’s just a little congestion,” the esthetician said as she examined my face under the harsh, bright spa light. I was wrapped in soft, just-warm-enough blankets, my ears soothed by gentle Sanskrit chanting, the room filled with a subtle and spicy aroma: all the ingredients for optimalread more

It’s no secret that café-hopping is an expensive but all too common habit that can eat up anyone’s budget in a heartbeat, whether you live in a city or the suburbs or even in a more rural area. Cutting back on outside coffee purchases isread more

There’s nothing like an ice-cold glass of water on a hot summer day…unless you’re like me, and/or you follow an Ayurvedic diet, in which case even the worst case of overheating doesn’t warrant drinking a cold beverage. Over the course of the last year, I’veread more

Fire Log Pose. You may call it Double Pigeon or Ankle-to-Knee Pose, but as we all know there’s not much in a name, more like a being’s sweet smell is its identity. The smell of this pose is an unmistakably smoldering one. Agnistambhasana, which literallyread more