Planet Lactose

Opinions have consequences, as Jay Rayner has discovered. I posted yesterday's Cheese and Lactose about his screed in the British Guard...

Lately it seems as if I've found at least one anti-food ailment crusader spreading his or her whine about cheese across the internet. T...

Today I found not one but two separate and independent articles debunking some of the myths that are associated with milk (and sometimes del...

Making soymilk is not the easiest process at home. Of course, these days there are gadgets that will do anything for your except pick up you...

Not that long ago, anyone traveling with lactose intolerance had to trust to luck and a pocket full of lactase pills. Today's travel is ...

The Gluten-Free Vegetarian Kitchen: Delicious and Nutritious Wheat-Free, Gluten-Free Dishes is a new paperback by Donna Klein. Its list pri...

No, not that kind of green pizza. Save that for St. Patrick's Day. Environmentally green. A press release from the Pizza Fusion chain ...

Fascinating article by Vikram Doctor in The Economic Times , titled How religious curbs lead to great food . In it he talks about the culina...

The UK's Food Standards Agency (FSA) announced new regulations it proposes for the labeling of baby formula, according to an article on ...

...and Christmas isn't far off. (Boycott any radio station that goes all-carols in November, though.) And that means the annual reminder...

Last year I told you about Blackwell's Organic Gelato and Sorbetto . Blackwell's is a "maker of 'soy gelato and fruit sorb...

Press release time. A package arrives on your doorstep. You open it to discover an assortment of elegantly packaged truffles, boxed chocola...

Some of you may remember that the militant vegan group, the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), launched a truly world-cla...

I broke the Internet. Do I win a prize? OK, I do vanity searches on my name. It's not complete vanity on my part since sites that use my...

Good grief. Patricia Kirk of WebMD.com reported on a new study by the University of Michigan Health System (UMHS). It found that 42% of stu...

Here's a big something I missed while my computer was visiting the land of nod. The 4th International Dairy-Free Conference in London. W...

You may know Scott Burns as a producer of the Oscar-winning documentary, An Inconvenient Truth . Sharp-eyed credits-watchers will remember h...

Major, major news from a new study just out in the November issue of the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology , Volume 120, Issue 5, P...

I've written a lot about the Digestive Advantage firm, most recently in Digestive Advantage Update and The Power of Probiotics . So whe...

It was just a throwaway line, a "tip for falling asleep" in an article by Jomay Steen in the Rapid City Journal about adapting yo...