The Environmental Working Group’s Skin Deep website gives you health skinny on all the ingredients in the potions and lotions you keep around the house. The site, at www.ewg.org/reports/skindeep2, wins smart design points with its search options, too: You can search by brand, product or ingredient, and the listings provide comprehensive information on relevant toxins […]

You’ve got the mat, the stretchy pants and the water bottle. Now, what’s the perfect yoga style for you? Here’s a breakdown of yoga personalities.—K.C. Target your "heart space" or your heart rate, depending on what kind of yoga you practice. Anusara. The focus is on opening up the “heart space,” with a fairly free […]

If your preferred way to ingest antioxidants is in a pill, you might want to consider going straight for the original food source, according to the National Institutes of Health. Scientists have been promoting antioxidants as a way to protect against free radical damage and prevent cancer. But recent studies have found that separating them […]

Rolfing has been a steady part of the alternative health undercurrent for years, but if it’s new to you meet Scott Gauthier, practitioner of the Rolf Method of Structural Integration. He calls Rolfing “a hands-on technique that works with the connective tissue inside the body to allow freer movement.” Point being, he says, “to examine […]

Yes…warm-weather soup that’s not gazpacho! Super quick and simply prepared, Fuel Co.’s chilled cucumber concoction kick-starts the appetite—though on a hectic day in the heat, it’s a perfect meal alongside a crisp salad and some nice sourdough or flatbread. Thomas Abrahamsson, the company’s new executive chef, suggested the soup as a late-spring and summer standby. […]

We have a habit around here at ABODE: Every April, we publish an issue on gardening. We do this because we know that for many of you, the garden is also a habit—and we do mean habit as in “irrational, all-consuming addiction.” It starts innocently enough: one tomato plant in a bucket, a few hastily […]

Want a new way to sauce up an old favorite? The Petit Pois chalkboard wrangled me in from my hasty midday Mall-walk with this listing: gnocchi with fava beans and mushrooms. Yes, please. It’s one of those dishes in which every bite tastes slightly different—buttery mushrooms, tender bites of fava, garlicky goodness—and all pair very […]

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Chicken that has flavor? Get out of town. Or don’t. Milan’s Chicken Jal-frazi gets high marks—it’s easier than fried chicken, quicker than roasted chicken, and spicy is the name of the game. Jal-frazi means “dry-fry,” and it denotes that the dish will finish with little sauce left in the pan. At Milan, Charanjeet Ghotra’s recipe […]