White Bread

The knitter is tired of nice. She's had it with "keep calm and carry yarn." She's gone guerrilla. Have you seen the attacks? The city bus snuggled, bumper to bumper, into a tight cardigan. The street sign done up in crochet. Best of all: the knit tree....

At the newly opened Melt it! in Pasadena, they're only concerned with serving one thing: grilled cheese. The casual spot, located near Pasadena City College, serves versions of the classic sandwich, which come in kitschy silver tin buckets.  For the...

Q: I'm trying to lose weight, and a friend recently told me that cutting white bread and potatoes out of my diet completely will help. Is that true? A: Your friend is right. Taking white bread and white potatoes, as well as white rice and white pasta,...

A savory take on bread pudding, this hearty dish is studded with chanterelle mushrooms. Gruyere and Emmentaler cheeses add a wonderful richness, with fresh thyme and sage to round out the harmony. The dish, a perfect side or main dish, comes together in...

Wednesday, just two weeks after the election all but declared an end to white male dominance, yet another nail was driven into the wood-paneled coffin of old-fashioned America. Hostess Brands, maker of Twinkies and Wonder Bread, announced that even...

Healthful eating starts with supportive nutrition. This means clean eating, or choosing foods that provide you with essential nutrients, including healthful fats (such as Omega-3), antioxidants, vitamins, minerals, and especially protein. The easiest way...

When I was 18 years old, I got a summer job for college in the local glass factory.  As a pre-college student, I had assumed that my work would be in the corporate offices, but I was so wrong. That first night I was to report to a place called the...

Bummer man. That was my thought after reading a piece that suggested baby boomers — of which I am one — weren’t ready for the demographic changes coming in the nation. We should be paying attention to the changes as the “newbies&...

For strict PB&J constructionists, there are certain unwavering rules. The peanut butter is creamy. The jelly is grape (strawberry in a pinch, but certainly none of that fancy apricot or boysenberry). And the bread is white. Delightfully bland,...

In a finding that strengthens the link between environmental pollutants and rising rates of breast cancer, new research finds that women whose diets contain higher levels of cadmium are at greater risk of developing breast cancer than those who ingest...

Confused about which carbohydrates you should be eating? Welcome to the club. "It's the biggest lack-of-consensus issue in the U.S. diet today," said Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian, associate professor of epidemiology at Harvard School of Public Health. "We...

Lifestyle and beauty guru Stacy Cox joined us with some clever ways to clean up your holiday party. FIND HER: www.stacycox.com FOLLOW HER ON TWITTER: @stacycoxbeauty 1. Left Over Wine & Juice • Freeze into cubes and save them for recipes that call...