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Steal These Tips from the Healthiest People in America

From thermal walks to staycations, 10 experts share their easy secrets to maximizing your health and happiness

New York and L.A. might be the places to find the trendiest boutique workouts and hottest superfoods—but when it comes to living a healthy lifestyle, other cities edge them out, according to the most recent Gallup-Healthways Community Well-Being Rankings.

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Must-Try Modern Israeli

Timna brings the flavor in the East Village

Going local isn’t something that chef Nir Mesika of the Timna had to learn, it’s something he’s done all his life.

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Hearth’s Reboot

Marco Canora is a man on a (delicious) mission at his updated East Villager

As Marco Canora goes, so does his restaurant, Hearth, where the flavors of the Tuscan-American food are as strong as the commitment to transparency and food sourcing.

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Kingsley For a Day

It's all greenmarket fresh at this East Village hotspot

When it comes to keeping things local, the numbers at Kingsley, which opened in the East Village…

This new Culver City fast-casual is the perfect spot to buy a portable feast

Ever wonder what it would be like to eat in the home kitchen of a top-notch chef? You don’t need to wrangle…

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Roasted Root Vegetables

This colorful mélange will brighten any holiday table. Using locally grown, organic vegetables offers superior nutrition and intensifies the flavors.

International flavors are found at this sexy Santa Monica restaurant

When it comes to eating out on date night, the last thing on your mind may be where your food is sourced…

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Elevate with eLOVate Kitchen

This Santa Monica vegan haven is a favorite of stars and food lovers alike

Roberto Martin, formerly a private chef for vegan power couple Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Ross, opened up Santa Monica’s vegan spot eLOVate Kitchen.

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Farm2Tacos Time

Forget Taco Tuesday--every day is the right time to feast on these beauties, delivered straight to your door

Swap the morning-meeting donut for these delicious breakfast tacos.

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Manhattan House Dominates Skyline

In Manhattan Beach, this little-pub-that-could towers over its competition

When you park your car at Manhattan House, the new Manhattan Beach pub, you might…

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Dudley Market On Venice’s Boardwalk

Chef Jesse Barber serves grass-fed beef even though it's sand in his restaurant's backyard

Eating clean on the Venice Beach Boardwalk can be a tall order—and we don’t mean because…

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Good Fortune

Brooklyn's new local Chinese spot

Kings County Imperial is not your average Chinese joint.

Megan Kimble's year without processed food

We’d all like to consume less processed food, but could you take on the challenge that Megan Kimble did in her book, Unprocessed: My City-Dwelling Year of Reclaiming Real Food?

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The Veg Table

Vegetable, a new vegetarian restaurant in Studio City

Vegetable restaurant serves healthy vegetarian comfort-food faves.

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Forget The Freezer

With ingredients this fresh, you won't need it anyway

The District by Hannah An’s Vietnamese food is so fresh they don’t even have a walk-in freezer…

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Salads Go Glam

Greenleaf's new Hollywood location

Greenleaf Gourmet Chopshop is expanding with its designer salads to Hollywood.

Give your immune system a boost with Honeydrop juice.

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Barneys Gets Fresh

Barneys New York’s restaurant gets a makeover.

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This Produce Pops

Here’s your new favorite produce spot.

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Little Name, Big Flavor

Courtesy of local and fresh ingredients, of course.

Check out chef Andrew Carmellini’s new spot Little Park.

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Home Shopping Network

These delivery services take the chore out of grocery shopping

We’re big fans of sitting down for a great meal. But all that darting around town to forage for every last component…

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On Our Radar: Urban Garden

This Fairfax restaurant is full of classic and contemporary twists on Mediterranean food

Are you familiar with fattoush, lebneh or zaatar? Discover them all at a new Middle Eastern spot on Fairfax.

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Market Driven: Farmigo

Farmigo connects local farmers with health-conscious consumers

Wish you had a farmers’ market at your doorstep? Check out Farmigo—and get a taste of what’s in season right now.

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On Our Radar: Aska

This Scandinavian restaurant brings local, seasonal flavors to Williamsburg

New Williamsburg restaurant Aska’s ingredients are as local as possible—even the flowers on the tables are foraged along the river.

People & Places

Waste-Free Groceries: Ingredients

This Austin grocery store is zero-waste and package-free

In an effort to reduce packaging waste generated by food, a new Austin grocery store is shunning recycling in favor of “precycling,” the practice of avoiding recycling by not creating packaging in the first place.

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Where to Eat Local? A City-by-City Guide

The best locally sourced and sustainable food businesses across the country

Where does one find these nearby butchers, bakers and popsicle makers preparing delicious, sustainable products and creating local jobs? Check out the 100 Tastemakers across the country.

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Beer’s the Thing: SoCal Brews to Try For Fall

Three vegetarian recipes get masterful beer pairings

We presented three delicious vegetarian recipes from the Clean Plates blog and invited — nay, challenged — Sayre Piotrkowski, cicerone (think sommelier for beer), to find us some sudsy SoCal pairings.

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A Radish Grows in Brooklyn

This Williamsburg gem is perfect for seasonal, locally-sourced, picnic-ready meals

Radish may be Williamsburg’s favorite spot for seasonal prepared foods, picnic necessities and local farms’ and artisan products.

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Local Food Lab Incubates Nourishing Start-Ups

Two Silicon Valley entrepreneurs tackle the local food industry

Local Food Lab, a business incubator, is applying the techie model to the ever-burgeoning food world as more and more people are finding a new beginning in local food businesses.

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Farming and Fun at the Flip Flop Ranch

Two hours east of LA, the Flip Flop Ranch gives visitors a slice of the farm life

City life hides our land’s natural elements behind billboards and freeways. Flip Flop Ranch offers families a way to unwind…

Up your burger game by using delicious, local ingredients

Though summer’s end is bittersweet, we love celebrating with a BBQ full of big, juicy, grass-fed, chin-dripping burgers. Here’s how to create a healthful burger from local, artisanal ingredients…

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Smorgasburg: Eating Clean at this Foodie Wonderland

This weekly Brooklyn pop-up has plenty to healthy food options

Smorgasburg is an artisanal food fantasy come to life: about 100 vendors sell freshly prepared foods, local produce…

Expand your food horizons with these local, weekly deliveries of seasonal produce

Are chain grocery stores getting more of your business than you’d like? Here’s a solution: weekly deliveries from a local CSA…

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For Your Own Good: A Green Getaway

Head to Vermont for a relaxing, food-centric getaway

Good Commons is a boutique retreat and vacation spot in Vermont. The Commons’ uncommonly good getaways…

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Celebrate Summer in SoCal at FIG’s Farm Dinner

One local family farm gets the spotlight at this Santa Monica staple

Chef Ray Garcia of FIG brings respect for terroir to the table at his delightful quarterly Farm Dinners…

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The Ultimate Omakase: Get Fed at FIG

Chef Ray Garcia ups the local and sustainable dining ante

Want to gild the seasonal lily? Treat yourself to FIG’s Feed Me dinner. The omakase-inspired, exquisitely fresh tasting menu…

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The Brooklyn Standard: An Organic Locavore Bodega

This update on the classic NYC bodega offers vegan- and vegetarian-friendly options and local artisanal products

The Brooklyn Standard is the organic, locavore version of a classic New York bodega. With a chandelier…

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On Our Radar: Yopparai

Local ingredients and a dizzying sake bar come together in this Manhattan gem

Thanks to Manhattan’s newest quasi-secret Japanese spot, you can get your Yopparai on (Japanese for “I’m drunk”) with food full of local ingredients you can actually feel good about. *hic*

Keep your kitchen stocked with products from indie artisans in the tri-state area

With the recent onslaught of artisanal products across the Empire State, New Yorkers can find just about any local foodstuff within the tri-state area. Enter New York Mouth, here to fill cupboards with homegrown goods.

Sign up for their CSA, or submit a one-time order

Move over Fresh Direct. There’s another organic and local food delivery service out there: Rustic Roots Delivery. The service not only offers a CSA program, it allows for one-time orders as well…

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Interview with Seasonal Chef Andrew Kirschner

The Next Iron Chef competitor opened Tar & Roses in his hometown of Santa Monica

Andrew Kirschner of Next Iron Chef fame finally built his dream restaurant, Tar & Roses, in Santa Monica. We chat with him about sustainable sourcing, his L.A. roots and recent obsession with wood-fired ovens…

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Learn Sausage Making with Brooklyn Cured

Scott Bridi's ode to charcuterie keeps the Italian-American pork legacy alive

To Scott Bridi, his charcuterie store Brooklyn Cured is about more than preserving meat; he hopes to keep the legacy of Italian-American pork stores alive…

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Interview with Seasonal Chef Bill Telepan

The Wellness in the Schools advocate shares the importance of eating local, unprocessed foods

Chef Bill Telepan chats with writer Megan Murphy about his passion for seasonal cooking, helping make schools healthier, and more…

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The Best Local Mushrooms Come From a Repurposed Trailer

Fred Ellrot's F & F Farms brings locally-grown oyster and shiitake mushrooms to the LA area

At F & F Farms up in Moorpark, Fred Ellrott cultivates exquisitely delicious shiitake and oyster mushrooms…

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On Our Radar: Talde

Top Chef contender David Talde brings inventive fusion food to Park Slope

Top Chef and Top Chef All Stars contender Dale Talde is back in the limelight right here in Brooklyn, with his eponymously named Talde in Park Slope.

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Cookbook LA: The Ultimate Green Grocer

This tiny Echo Park space boasts gorgeous hyper-local produce and food products

In Echo Park, Cookbook LA’s unassuming storefront conceals a delightful green grocer with a daily selection of gorgeous, hyper-local, often organic produce from nearby growers and farmers markets—all in a 500-square-foot space

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Haven’s Kitchen: An Oasis for Cooks in Union Square

With classes, events and fresh produce, Haven's Kitchen has it all

Haven’s Kitchen, a gorgeous new cooking school/market/event space in Union Square, stands out in a city full of trendy locavore food businesses…

University of California's Master Food Preserver Class takes advantage of LA's fruit-full bounty

Los Angeles is a veritable urban orchard, which may explain the popularity of the Master Food Preserver Class at University of California’s Cooperative Extension…

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Food Trucks Living the (Green) Dream

These LA food trucks are worth tracking down

Since the food truck explosion began in LA—thanks in large part to Roy Choi’s Korean fusion tacos—the scene has exploded with every imaginable edible. Here are a few trucks worth tracking down.

8 useful tips for success

Here are some tips to make navigating farmers’ markets simple and fun!

Where and how to get fresh, local food

With its short lag time between harvesting and eating, fresh, local food not only tastes amazing—it also packs more of a nutritional punch.

Healthy Pantry

In Season NY: Local Pumpkin Beer

Our roundup of pumpkin beers

We’ve rounded up a list of local pumpkin beers; enjoy knowing that your dollars are supporting a local producer while you savor a delicious seasonal brew.

People & Places

Q & A with Gramercy Tavern’s Michael Anthony

Chef Michael Anthony discusses sustainability and more

Chef Michael Anthony’s farm-to-table approach focuses on using fresh, local and seasonal ingredients and aims to inspires a connection between diners and their food.

How to get the most out of your local farmer's market

With spring comes the opportunity for you to buy local, fresh and direct from farmers and producers at your neighborhood farmers’ markets.

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The “Healthy” Mistake You’re Probably Making at Starbucks

Maybe you pop in all the time, maybe you only go there in a pinch — either way, chances are grabbing coffee from Starbucks is a part of your life. And though you’re probably already avoiding those venti super-sugary specialty drinks (right?!), your go-to Starbucks order might not be as healthy as you think. Read on to find out the “healthy” mistake you might be making.  

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5 Ways to Chill Out When You Only Have 10 Minutes

You could probably use an hour or two to relax every day, right? Over here in the real world, we feel lucky when we get 10 minutes. There’s good news, though: That’s actually plenty of time. Here are some good ways to chill out when the clock is ticking. (Hint: Scrolling social media isn’t on the list).

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