Well Fed Network

I recently read a quote from Dr. John Cacioppo, a neuroscientist at the University of Chicago, that stated “Loneliness can be as harmful to your health as smoking and obesity.”
When we think of health, we think of eating apples and celery sticks. We think of working out daily and getting eight hours of sleep. Some […]

Got any weekend plans? Feel like cramming into a two block space with what seems like half the population of San Francisco to queue up for some really good food in the Mission? No? Why on earth not?
That more or less sums up Last week’s Street Food Festival: an incredibly crowded, delicious mess, if you […]

My mother’s mantra was “variety is the spice of life,” which was her way of saying, eat the escarole or eat nothing at all. Over the years I’ve watched parents try a number of methods to get their kids to eat fruits and vegetables. Some go the route of my mother and give them no […]

I didn’t set out to make a vegan cupcake. During my quest to make key lime bars for my dad’s birthday, I discovered my can of sweetened condensed milk was neither sweet nor condensed anymore. It was sour and coagulated. I thought I’d do a cheesecake, but did not have enough cream cheese. Instead, I […]

This week I decided to splurge on a yellowfin tuna steak. Tuna is the kind of dinner that we can’t afford to eat too often, but we try and fit in at least once a month. My favorite way to prepare it is with cilantro, lime, ginger, avocado, and jalapeño - a fresh […]

The past few weeks, in the foodie community, people have been abuzz with excitement over Julie & Julia, the movie. The movie is based on two true stories, that of a New York foodblogger, Julie Powell (played by Amy Adams), and that of America’s first lady of French Cuisine, Julia Child (played by Meryl Streep). […]

This is the latest installment in a continuing series that documents my personal quest to become the host of my own cooking show. Since this is a relatively new “career,” there are no vocational programs or community college courses to prepare me for it. From what I have seen, the two most important elements in […]

Making Decorative Ice Buckets is a snap with Nice Ice Cooler.
One of the best things about being a professional party planner/designer is planning parties at my home for family and friends. I am constantly trying out new products to use and to share with my friends. I have been making decorative ice buckets with […]

42Below launches the uk’s biggest nationwide cocktail competition in search of the country’s brightest bartending talent
This August 42below International vodka professor Jacob Briars and entourage take to the road for the first ever 12 city UK wide tour to unearth the country’s hottest cocktail talent. See your cities top mixologists muddle, mix, stir and shake it […]

This isn’t the review I wanted to write. Why? Because I really wanted to love this bar. An all natural candy bar with a great company back-story, Q.bel seemed like the perfect answer to my chocolate cravings.
The owner of Q.bel started the company as a healthy dad’s answer to his son’s desire to eat the […]