Like most Americans, I love gathering around the Thanksgiving table with friends and family every November to eat turkey, gorge on sweet ...

I made flatbread for the first time last night, and it turned out to be the perfect impromptu summer dinner. I started with a simple home...

I love a good flea market. Browsing tables and racks of cast-off clothes, jewelry and household items is almost always fun and interesti...

We’re spending a week on Crete, the rugged island at the southern edge of Europe. It’s a place of wild beauty, fierce winds off of the L...

David and I flew took an overnight flight to Paris on Sunday, then hit the ground running. Or at least walking a lot in comfortable shoe...

The other night, I organized a picnic at Millennium Park for the organization I run, Chicago Physicians for Social Responsibility. The e...

Summer is so glorious and yet so short here in Chicago. I try to pack in as much summer fun as possible. I love picnics and beach cookout...

I made a remarkable grilled cauliflower salad the other night. I am calling it my first summer salad because it contains mint from my ga...

I'm not a gardener by nature. I'm certainly into food and have been for years: farmers' markets, cooking, parties, restaurants, and of c...

I'm middle aged, and a doctor, so I know all too well that death is a part of life. I have lost patients--mostly elderly people or those w...

Earlier this week, Attorney General William Barr released his take on the Mueller report in a 4-page letter to congress. The relatively ...

A million years ago, I wrote a blog post about Jenny McCarthy and the fraudulent anti-vaccine movement with which she was heavily involve...

I make chicken stock all winter. I cook it in my extra large stock pot, keep some in my fridge, and freeze the rest. If I open my freez...

I was lucky enough to escape the endless Chicago winter last week when my husband and I headed to Belize. We spent one week in that tiny ...

I started my series on delicious soup recipes that you can easily make at home when late fall arrived and the outdoor temperatures were b...

Like most of you, I took a vacation from activism following the 2018 election. It was great to partake in the blue wave of democrats--an...

It's New Year's Day, and I have gotten out of bed, maxed out on coffee, gone to the gym for a spin class, washed all the glassware from l...

Sometimes things go just as planned when we are cooking. But at other times, a cook needs to get a little creative and figure out how to...

I do not own a kitchen blow torch. I wish I did--I like playing with fire a lot, and kitchen blow torches look like fun. You can do nift...

I have always liked Governor Howard Dean, MD. Like me, he's a primary care doctor. As governor of Vermont, he was an authentic and 'stra...