March 2010

Features

• Should You Eat Like an Icelander?

  Icelanders are among the planet's healthiest, happiest people. Their incredibly pure diet could be the secret.

• Healthy Thai Recipes

  Thai genius Su-Mei Yu shares energizing stews, salads, stir-fries and more to get anyone through a cool, damp spring.

• Home Cook Superstar Winner

  After deliberating over the thousands of entrants to our first-ever Home Cook Superstar Search, we at F&W are proud to announce the winner. The prize: a trip to the Cayman Cookout.

• Chefs, Can You Please Lighten Your Food?

  F&W's editor in chief challenges some of her favorite chefs, all masters of indulgent food, to create healthy recipes that even a sausage fetishist would lust after.

• Editor's Letter

• An Overachieving Underchewer

  In an attempt to be the healthiest man in America, A.J. Jacobs learns to masticate like a master—and finds that the benefits of taking 50 chews per bite justify the extreme social awkwardness.

• Sophie Dahl’s Voluptuous Cooking

  The British tabloids are obsessed with Sophie Dahl's weight, love life and pedigree (her grandfather was famed author Roald Dahl). Now she's giving them something else to fixate on: a terrific cookbook called Miss Dahl's Voluptuous Delights.

• Turkish Picnic

  Straddling Europe and Asia, the Bosphorus strait is a powerful symbol of Istanbul. Chef Mehmet Gürs sails its waters to buy the ingredients for a great floating picnic.