I recently went out to dinner to a Vietnamese restaurant (don’t worry, I brought food with me) with a few of my roommates, and watched as they devoured some delicious looking spring rolls.  Spring rolls used to be one of my favorite Vietnamese dishes, and they served as the inspiration for this dish.  It took [...]

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My point: Consume less sugar, flour, starch, and alcohol to prevent hair loss and baldness.
This is another example of big pharmaceutical and food industries lying and cheating to consumers, and victimizing the public. The traditional theory dealing with baldness was that it is caused by the male hormone, testosterone. Testosterone is converted to another hormone [...]

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Ever since Ro and I were in middle school, we would come home everyday from school and make ourselves a nice big sandwich.  Honey wheat bread, mayo, mustard, cheese, tomato, turkey, corn, the works.  I made the same sandwich all the way through high school, and it was absolutely one of my favorite things to [...]

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My point: I think that TV advertising is the single greatest factor contributing to obesity. People, especially children, tend to purchase and consume foods that are more widely advertised. The problem is that advertised foods are the most highly processed and packaged foods. This is leading to the obesity epidemic.

Food is supposed to nourish, replenish, [...]

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What can I say on this wonderful day?  My brother and I have accomplished so much already in our lives, but we know that none of it would have been possible without one person: our mom.  So, mom, this post is absolutely dedicated to you.  You have been the inspiration for everything we have done; [...]

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On May 3, 2008, Burma was hit by a devastating cyclone. The Cyclone Nargis crashed into the coast destroying entire villages and battering Rangoon. At this point, 22,464 people have been killed, with another 41,000 missing and feared dead. To read more about this click here.

The International Rice Research Institute is warning that the cyclone [...]

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Seems that lately the only fruits I’ve been able to buy have been bananas and strawberrys, so I’ve been trying to get creative with what I can do with these fruits.  I wanted to try to make something similar to a crepe filling, since crepes used to be one of my favorite desserts.  After I [...]

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