Last week we talked about why cabbage is awesome. Here's one more way to enjoy this underappreciated winter vegetable: as crispy, oven-baked chips!

Coffee is good for your heart! No, caffeine is bad for you! Eggs are fine, though! No, eating eggs is worse than smoking! ...Are you exhausted by the daily assault of conflicting health and nutrition information in the media? Skeptical about every new claim? You should be. As one critic puts it, health journalism is now based on "survival of the wrongest," and there are good reasons why consumers should be wary of what they read. More

It's been a wicked flu season so far, and we're not through the worst of it just yet. What's a sick food lover to do? Leave it to the pros to come up with a few hot, healing, restorative foods to soothe symptoms. More

There's something both sweet and intriguing about looking back through old magazines and newspapers to see what dishes were popular way back when. Flipping through my mom's food magazines from the 80's reveals strangely complex appetizers, a million variations on cooking shrimp, and heavy cream sauces. If you don't have a mother with decades-old magazines at the ready, you're in luck: The L.A. Times has opened up the recipe vault on their site, a veritable cultural study in the past few decades or so in food. More

Have you recently felt the presence of ghosts, seen giant insects attacking your car or found yourself rolling on the floor without explanation? No? Clearly you haven't been consuming enough of the five foods Bon Appetit says can cause hallucinations — although there is a good chance you had one of them this morning. More

Downton Abbey fans need no introduction to Mrs. Patmore, the puffing, no-nonsense cook with a heart of gold. LA Weekly recently sat down with Lesley Nicol, the British actress who plays Mrs. Patmore, to get a little behind-the-scenes look at her cooking life, in real life and on the show: More

After the heavy eating of the holidays, you're probably ready to focus on wholesome, healthy foods that provide the nutrients you need. This well-designed infographic from S.B. Lattin Design makes it easy to identify the foods that are good sources of the 13 essential vitamins — no pills or supplements required. More

It was such a joy to stumble across this photo project by Italian photographer Gabriele Galimberti, who traveled around the world asking grandmothers to prepare and share their favorite home-cooked meals. The project "pays homage to all the grandmothers in the world and to their love for good cooking," and it sweetly shows the care and pride they put into their prized home recipes. From a shark soup in the Philippines to moose steak in Alaska, from chicken vindaloo in India to swiss chard ravioli in Italy, each grandmother also shares her recipe, which Galimberti has compiled on his website. More

You know how when you're traveling abroad and eating out a lot, you sometimes crave a homemade meal? Meal Sharing is a new social-networking site that connects you with a home-cooked meal wherever you are. Watch a video of how it works below: More

The girls at Liddabit Sweets know a lot about great candies. So when Splendid Table asked them to share their two easiest and quickest holiday candies, you better believe they had two great recipes to share. And these two candies require no heating or candy thermometers — truly fast and simple. Check them out! More