Planet Lactose

I wrote about the new cookbook Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World back on November 29. I didn't realize I was only giving you half the ...

Sure I know it's Christmas Eve. I'm just feeling perverse. It's my revenge for 24/7 Christmas carols starting November 1. In Wha...

Ariana Bundy, who now lives in Paris, was once the Head Pastry Chef at the L.A. Mondrian Hotel and also trained the dessert team in New York...

Hold Rudolph down, elves, she's kicking and we need the milk! Reindeer milk? Yes, kiddies, it's that time of year when the press has...

Curious Cookie , the "all natural gourmet" cookies, makes a line of cookies that are free of everything except, hopefully, taste. ...

Everybody knows that cats love milk. And everybody knows that you shouldn't give milk to cats because they're lactose intolerant jus...

I've been hearing anecdotes for years from those in the anti-milk community that taking children off of dairy problems relieves their as...

I've written about "free from" foods before. Free-From Foods to be Less Fickle in UK , "Free From" Foods Grow in Sal...

More info is coming in on the report highlighted in Monday's post, Milk-Drinking Crucial to Human Evolution . Scientific American has w...

In my book, Milk Is Not for Every Body , I provided an explanation for lactose persistance, that strange condition which allows adults to dr...

Alisa Fleming of GoDairyFree.org sent me an announcement about her new book. December 7, 2006 - Alisa Marie Fleming of GoDairyFree.org is p...

This isn't about LI, or dairy, or allergies, or any of the things I usually write about, but it's my blog so what the hey. And it is...

It's our horrible little not-so-secret that lactose intolerance can produce some of the most vile gas to pass from the human body. As a ...

If you're sufficiently recovered from Thanksgiving to think about the next round of family holidays, then you need to think again about ...

One more book on food. Harold McGee's On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen (Scribners, 2004, 896 pages, $40.00 list...

I'm been poking around more looking for other new cookbooks I haven't seen. That found me Donna Klein's Vegan Italiano: Meat-fre...

Cupcakes? Did anybody say cupcakes? Even better, a cupcake cookbook that is getting five-star reviews with comments like "Divine, delic...

It all started with a flight attendant being offended by the back of a baby's head. You'll remember the story from October, in which...

I'm a bit late getting to this, but I take Business Week magazine out of the library. The cover story of their Oct. 16, 2006 issue was ...

An allergy happens when a protein causes antibodies to form in the body. The next time the body encounters that protein, the antibodies swin...