Chinese long beans go well with light red wine

While traipsing though farmers' markets recently, I've spied bundles of Chinese long beans, from a distance looking much like piles of green spaghetti. These beans - often called yard-long beans - have other less-used names: long-podded or African cowpea,... Bean - Farmers' market - Cook - Home - Fruit and Vegetable

Another restaurant garden update, recipe

This spring, we planted a 2-acre garden to supply our restaurants with fresh, organic produce.

Substitute Yourself Skinny By Chef Susan Irby,The Bikini Chef

Warm weather is here. Learn how to cut your calories but keep the flavor with hundreds of simple substitutions.

Donna Maurillo, Food for Thought: Being skinny and Italian is perfectly easy

Someone once told me that they never met a skinny Italian. I wasn't sure what to think because they were looking right at me when they said it.

Vegetarian recipe special: the chefs

Fabulous meat-free recipes, from Jamie Oliver's aubergine tabbouleh to Heston Blumenthal's garden salad This Sunday's Observer Food Monthly is a vegetarian special, guest edited by Paul, Mary and Stella McCartney. As part of this very special event, OFM sourced a selection of vegetarian recipes from top chefs and celebrities, with everyone from Jamie Oliver to Gwyneth Paltrow contributing their ...