Sometimes you just want a little kitchen shortcut. Have you ever thought about cooking vegetables by color? It turns out that many vegetables that share colors also share other qualities that impact how they are cooked.

There?s a new approach in town, and this one will offer all the tools you need in order to prepare vegetables in healthful and tasty ways. It?s called the chop test.

Sometimes the best way to help your clients internalize key health lessons is to have them act them out. For this activity, you will need a free doorway in a low-traffic area, with available space on either side of the door. The door to your office or conference room may be perfect. You will also need some balloons, tape, and 4 different colors of bandanas (or another tool that you can use to mark participants into different teams).

The best way to start eating more whole grains is to replace some of the refined-grain foods in your diet with foods that are made from whole grains.

Use these 10 tips to shrink portion sizes and decrease your calorie intake.

I recently began teaching an advanced pastry class for the culinary art students at Johnson and Wales Denver (JWU). I am totally loving it, but the topic and group posed a few new challenges to my usual cooking demonstration approach...

Allowing little hands to help out in the kitchen is about more than just cooking. It?s about developing other skill sets in a fun, non-threatening fashion.