How a New England Yankee Conquered China
Sarah Whitman-Salkin is an editor at Cookstr.com. She lives in New York City.
It may seem unlikely that studying Chinese cooking would lead someone to cross paths with Julia Child, but even though Nina Simonds put the Peking duck in front of the poulet she still managed to build quite a network of friends across the globe.
The New Fat Hazard
Director of the Energy Metabolism Lab at the USDA Human Nutrition Research Center and professor of Nutrition and Psychiatry at Tufts University, and author of a new approach to weight loss called The Instinct Diet, which was recently featured in The Daily Beast.
New research finds overeating is linked to positive personality traits-like being unusually engaged with the world. Susan B. Roberts on the surprising collision of personality and willpower.
Why Restaurants Make You Fat
Director of the Energy Metabolism Lab at the USDA Human Nutrition Research Center and professor of Nutrition and Psychiatry at Tufts University, and author of a new approach to weight loss called The Instinct Diet, which was recently featured in The Daily Beast.
Restaurant Syndrome: 1. Eat out. 2. Eat too much. 3. Feel bad. 4. Repeat. The Daily Beast's Susan B. Roberts on why you do it-and five ways to minimize the damage.
Whenever I am looking for a feel-good meal and a fun night out in New York, I head to Buddakan. This Meatpacking District restaurant is by far one of my favorite spots in the city. There are classic elements to the food but also innovati...
Pamella Roland is the designer and creative director behind her self-titled clothing line. Her collection launched in 2001 and is now sold at Saks Fifth Avenue, Neiman Marcus, and Nordstrom stores.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
Martin Jacques is the cofounder of the UK think tank Demos, writes a regular column for The Guardian, and is a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. His new book, When China Rules the World, is available now.
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