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Byline: Kendra Nordin Beato Staff writer, Alfredo Sosa Staff photographer Abstract: A spate of drownings in Massachusetts resulted in restrictions on open water swimming. But Bill Meier is on a [...]

Byline: Kendra Nordin Sliced bread has been getting a bad rap for the past decade or so. Once considered the basic food for feeding the hungry, the humble loaf has [...]

Byline: Kendra Nordin First came urban chicken coops, then food trucks. The latest trend to test city zoning laws? Tiny houses built on trailer beds. Tiny homes - not all [...]

Byline: Kendra Nordin Across the decades of boom and bust that characterize agricultural history runs a trend: the rise and recognition of organic farming worldwide. According to the International Federation [...]

Byline: Kendra Nordin Instead of loading up their produce and heading into the city, more owners of small family farms are working toward drawing customers out to their fields as [...]

Byline: Kendra Nordin The sight of a dorsal fin silently slicing through the waves is every beachgoer's nightmare - unless the place is Cape Cod, and the time is, well, [...]

Byline: Kendra Nordin Museums, libraries, and universities have long been the places where people gather to exchange ideas and build new ones. Now as a modern 'maker movement' gains momentum [...]

Byline: Kendra Nordin Memorial Day in the United States was established not long after the Civil War as a way for the nation to honor members of the military who [...]

Byline: Kendra Nordin Some people might be able to eek out a memoir in the sunset of an adventurous life, when there is time to reflect and consider what is [...]

Byline: Kendra Nordin At a stylish house in Watertown, Mass., with high ceilings and stained-wood floors, children gather in a gleaming white kitchen. Dressed in colorful clothes they are testing [...]

Byline: Kendra Nordin First there was yoga, Pilates, and CrossFit. And now ... aerial fitness. Studios across the United States are incorporating aerial silks, ropes, hoops, and hammocks - hanging [...]

Byline: Kendra Nordin Nothing beats escaping the office for a summer lunch outside. Maybe you were organized enough to pack your lunch. Even better: Your favorite restaurant rolls up to [...]

Byline: Kendra Nordin Today's home kitchens gleam with sub-zero chrome refrigerators, store ice cream and pastamakers behind cabinet doors, and display at least three kinds of appliances that puree or [...]

Byline: Kendra Nordin The Manila folder filled with catalog clippings, the shoebox stuffed with snippets of a dream wedding, the online bookmark linking to beautiful inspiration - all three stand [...]

Byline: Kendra Nordin Johanna Crawford says the night she witnessed her father almost kill her mother is only one of two things that motivates her each day to help survivors [...]

Byline: Kendra Nordin Greg Peterson's 1950s tract home looks like any other house on his block in Phoenix, with one notable difference: Practically everything in his yard is edible. More [...]

Byline: Kendra Nordin The clumps of cauliflower clouds suddenly part and a wash of sunshine engulfs the expectant crowd in an outdoor amphitheater here. It's a setting that would be [...]

Byline: Kendra Nordin 'This isn't quite what I imagined,' my friend Jenna said as we looked at the dish that had been set before us. In tall glasses lined with [...]

Byline: Kendra Nordin Nathalie Miebach, at first impression, could almost be mistaken for a toymaker. Her studio in Boston's South End is a swirl of beads, tiny whales, flags, origami [...]

Byline: Kendra Nordin In her recent memoir "The Tenth Muse: My Life in Food" (2008), Judith Jones, the editor of Julia Childaos "Mastering the Art of French Cooking," urges singles […]

Byline: Kendra Nordin A well-crafted meal creates a space for all kinds of wonderful things to happen - family ties can be strengthened, a sense of community nurtured, and love [...]

Byline: Kendra Nordin Mark Bittman, food columnist for The New York Times, has joined the Greek chorus of foodies for a better planet. Openly acknowledging that he is building on [...]

Byline: Kendra Nordin After college, when I wasn't quite sure what to do next, I went to live with a British friend and her family in a London suburb. Tamsin [...]

Byline: Kendra Nordin No one can deny the power of a steaming, full plate to transport one to some other time or place. And yet food, or a meal, can [...]

Byline: Kendra Nordin When it comes to vegetables, even urban 'locavores' can get their hands dirty in the effort to eat only local foods. All you need is a bit [...]

Byline: Kendra Nordin Worn canvas bags have become this summer's must-have accessory for locavore shoppers. They boldly declare their superiority to the plastic bag, now widely considered passe and a [...]

Byline: Kendra Nordin If love grew from the ground, it might be a sun-ripened tomato. And now it is August in the Northeast, when an abundance of the succulent fruit [...]

Byline: Kendra Nordin From the trained chef to the home cook, preparing meals with fresh, local ingredients over shipped, shrink-wrapped food seems an obvious choice. Shopping locally may have a [...]

Byline: Kendra Nordin Hema Parekh is the author of two cookbooks on Japanese cuisine. A lifelong vegetarian, Ms. Parekh grew up in India but has spent the past 25 years [...]

Byline: Kendra Nordin Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor Laguna Beach, Calif. -- 'OK, go!' This is my cue to run down a sandy incline, launch a skimboard, land [...]

Byline: Kendra Nordin Over the past decade, more than 10,000 books relating to diet have been published in English. In this torrent raining down on us each year one thing [...]

Byline: Kendra Nordin The "Little House books," as they have come to be known, have endeared themselves to countless readers since the time of the Great Depression. At the heart […]

She calls it a 'dim sum Ph.D.' In the past five years, Lucinda Robb has absorbed roughly 400 hours of academic lectures at 60 universities. She's always on the hunt [...]

Our favorite cleat-wearing American women set the pace in last weekend's opening of the Women's World Cup soccer competition. But note that it was the crowd itself - the adoring […]

EAST OF THE MOUNTAINS By David Guterson Harcourt Brace 280 pp., $25 Following the phenomenal success of "Snow Falling on Cedars" (1994), David Guterson's second novel places the right-to-die issue […]