Posts by Gui Alinat

Everyday clean eating is about simplicity. That’s hard to achieve. Many artists, chefs, and home cooks often try to add on to their masterpiece to make it better. But more often than not, less is more. In other words, we’re trying too hard. In my native South of France, the summers are swelteringly hot and dry.…

You know what the funny thing is about pizza casserole? It’s not pizza. Like, at all. In fact, it has more in common with a deep-dish pizza, but some (Italians and/or New-Yorkers!) would argue deep-dish pizza is not pizza either. Whether or not you agree that it’s pizza, everyone will agree that my pizza casserole recipe is…

Gluten-free isn’t exactly an entirely new fad — and maybe you’ve heard from friends, or even celebrities, who claim they’ve lost weight and just feel like a brand-new person now that they’ve gone gluten-free. Well, not only does it not necessarily help you shed those unwanted pounds, but so long as you don’t have an…

Reproducing a dish from a recipe is easy, right? I mean, it’s pretty straightforward. You follow instructions, with quantities and everything, and you should end up with what’s on the picture. But that’s not always the case. I remember when I was teaching culinary students, I would give the same recipe to 5 different groups,…

It’s easy to feel overwhelmed with all these fad diets that claim to help you shed unwanted pounds. From liquid diets to teatoxing to cabbage soup diets to baby food, lemon water, and raw food diets — there is no shortage of diets to try. And going gluten-free for weight loss seems to be one…