Topic: Ina Garten

Morning Links: 6 Healthy Natural Foods That Replace Multivitamins

Morning Links: 6 Healthy Natural Foods That Replace Multivitamins

Downward Doctor – Why you should hope your primary care physician knows about yoga. (Well + Good NYC)

Pass on the Pill-Popping – 6 nutrient-dense natural foods that can replace expensive multivitamins. (The Daily Green)

Barefoot Contessa’s Boo-Boo – Food Network queen Ina Garten has twice refused the dying Make-a-Wish Foundation request of a six-year-old boy with cancer, who just wants to cook with Her Highness. (Shine) More »

How Barefoot Contessa Makes Grocery Shopping Fun: Get Alec Baldwin to Do It

How Barefoot Contessa Makes Grocery Shopping Fun: Get Alec Baldwin to Do It

Have we mentioned that we love Alec Baldwin at Blisstree? Beyond obsessively waiting for his latest 30 Rock performances to pop up on Hulu, we admire his ability to joke about scrotox, his interest in nature (expressed through narration of National Geographic shows), and his genius plugs for NPR donation drives. So when we found out that he also likes to go vegetable shopping, our crush became even more serious.

Baldwin showed up on The Barefoot Contessa to shop for Ina Garten, who had auctioned off a luncheon for a charity hosted by Law & Order: SVU star Mariska Hargitay. She did the cooking, but she managed to wrangle Baldwin into the shopping, a task which he finds “very challenging” More »

Worst Cookbooks of 2010: What Not to Give for Christmas

Worst Cookbooks of 2010: What Not to Give for Christmas

Cookbooks are the perfect gift for anyone who likes to cook (or pretends they do), but before you rush out to buy the year’s best-sellers for your favorite home chefs, you might want to make sure it’s not on doctors’ list of Worst Cookbooks of 2010. The list, released by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), highlights the year’s unhealthiest recipe collections, penned by the likes of Gordon Ramsay and Ina Garten: More »