| City Life-Healthy Choices
While true that Hoboken boasts several gourmet health food stores and numerous yoga studios, New York City is the ultimate destination for finding healthy foods and taking care of yourself.
For example, a chain of stores called the Whole Foods Market are located near Union Square, Columbus Circle and in Chelsea. These stores provide a wide variety of organic products. Whole Foods Market resembles Hoboken's new Garden of Eden store, but is bigger, therefore providing a greater variety of baked goods and other healthy essentials.
In addition to healthy foods, the Chelsea Whole Foods Market has a separate store next door, Whole Body at Whole Foods Market, devoted to non-food items. The Whole Body store stocks vitamins and supplements. Exercise DVDs of all kinds, including yoga, tai chi and weight training can be found there.
Who's Got Soul Southern Cafe
Location: The cafe is located in the Herrington Center Shopping Plaza, near the intersection of Herrington and Breckinridge roads in Lawrenceville.
Hours: Who's Got Soul is open from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, from noon to 9 p.m. Saturday and from 1 to 8 p.m. Sunday. It is closed Monday.
Atmosphere: Bright yellow walls, catchy R&B tunes and savory scents make it hard not to feel excited about being at Who's Got Soul.
"The music is my secret weapon," said owner Kash. While Who's Got Soul has room for in-house dining, with five plush booths lining one wall, the restaurant does more catering and take-out business.
Food: At Who's Got Soul, you don't even need to look at a menu. The food roster is laid out in stark white letters on the windows before you walk in, and a lineup of meats and vegetables are on display behind the ordering counter.
Fido chills out at holistic spa for dogs, cats
OKAY, OKAY. I admit, when I first saw a flyer for the Pawsitive Karma Holistic Boutique & Pet Spa, my first reaction was a snicker. Spas for dogs and cats complete with a blueberry facial -- "What's next?" I wondered, "Yoga for your dog?" That was in October. We're now in February, and I figured because it's still in business, I would check it out and keep my smart remarks to myself -- well, most of them anyway. Genial owner Marilyn Texter admits to being a New Age-type with crystals at her own home, but she opened the boutique and spa for a more old-fashioned, practical reason. "It's been a little evolution for me. I was going back to college at 40-something, so had little free time and found myself driving all over looking for foods and products.
You are my India!
Retail history: Big Bazaar made Rs 125 crore in total in a three-day sale across its outlets. (Above) A file picture of police trying to control the crowds at a Big Bazaar sale in Hyderabad last year. In the Sixties, an extremely humorous Tamil film titled Kathalikka Neramillai rocked Madras. The film, made by a famous director with the admirable name of Sridhar, had an interesting dialogue which went something like this: Nagesh in the movie is a guy who is mad about making films. His two sisters come for a break and he asks them what Tamil film they had seen recently. "We don't see Tamil pictures, we see only English pictures," they chorus proudly. To which Nagesh with his usual aplomb says, "Let my picture come, then all Englishmen will say that we don't see English pictures, we see only Tamil pictures." To which his sisters say, "Then we will stop seeing films." More than the humour in the dialogue or the situation, to me it represents a state of mind that was certainly present then and is perhaps present even today.
An inventive take on Asian cuisine
The Chinese year 4705, which begins Sunday, will be a time of joy and tradition in Asian communities. And for one young Asian cook and food entrepreneur, it is a time to put a fresh, healthful spin on celebratory meals.
Ching He-Huang, author of China Modern (Kyle, $19.95), is rocking the culinary world with her vibrant, cutting-edge takes on classic cookery. This 26-year-old's passion for delicious, healthful Chinese food led her to create Fuge Ltd. (www.fuge.co.uk), which sells fresh cold salads (noodle, leaf and pasta) and Tzu beverages in the United Kingdom. With the recent release of her first cookbook, Huang's East-meets-West style is getting attention in the United States.
"I want to explore modern Chinese cooking in hope of challenging conventional Western perceptions of Chinese food," says Huang.
Posted by: Mary Katharine Ham at 1:29 PM
So, we'll all enjoy the Whole Foods and the delicious fresh, organic foods it brings us at reasonable prices while you guys find another rootsy, local store at which to shop, which with any luck, will be just mediocre enough to prevent its "straying from its roots" by becoming, you know, successful.
THEY came together in what seemed like a perfect marriage: earnestformer hippies and Whole Foods, the clean, well-lighted version of theold natural food store. The chain's stores were filled with organicfoods and socially responsible ingredients. They were decorated withpastoral scenes of the local farmers who sold to them; signageexplained why local and organic are better for the environment. Thefood may have been more expensive, but for many shoppers it was worthit. Since opening its first store in Austin, Tex., in 1980, Whole Foodshas grown from a small business to a mega-chain with 193 stores,capping its rise last week with a deal to acquire the 110 stores of itslargest rival, Wild Oats.
The package: Mail musings in Mumbai
I love Asia. I love the sun. I love the food. I love my friends. And after having spent half of my life here, I have become accustomed to (but do not love) the weak infrastructure, inefficient service and the very slow pace at which things get done. .
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