Known for its beautiful beaches, Buddhist pagodas and bustling cities – Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City – Vietnam also offers a unique synthesis of dishes, influenced by China and the French, its former Eastern European communist sister-countries, as well as its Malaysian and Cambodian neighbors. Here are five dishes from Vietnam that everyone […]
Livestock products – like meat and dairy – are responsible for 18% of greenhouse gases. That’s as much each year as from all cars, trucks, airplanes and ships combined. And it means that the more meat and dairy we continue to eat, the more destructive climate change will continue to be. To meet global […]
Heart disease remains the number one killer of Americans. Along with poor diet, high cholesterol, diabetes and family history, high blood pressure – also called hypertension – is one of the main risk factors. Though high blood pressure itself can have many of the same contributors as heart disease, one of the most effective […]
While coffee is the pick-me-up drink of choice in the US, Canada and most of Europe, tea is still preferred virtually everywhere else, making it the hands-down most widely consumed beverage – after water – in the world. So, if you’re not a big tea drinker, but you’d like to appreciate it more, where […]
