Have you visited Starbucks lately? I’m there a lot, mainly because I have super slow satellite internet on the farm, so the high speed when I’m in town is nice. My weakness for a plain-whole milk-latte-with-whip is also a reason, but that’s another blog post. And…another post should be on the fact that I get...
My mom and I were watching Turner Classic Movies this weekend, featuring Oscar-winning films from years past. In between one of the films they showed a short feature film from a “Pete Smith Specialty” series that MGM produced circa 1937. These are probably the world’s first cooking videos! We were cracking up watching these, so...
Not everyone cares about the “raw milk debate”. You asume that because you don’t drink it, it doesn’t affect you. Well, there always seems to be some exciting event surrounding this food- be it a raid featuring armed federal agents seizing the milk and covertly arresting a food coop manager, or a judge saying that...
Our family typically eats every meal at home during the week, but I love to eat out. I love finding the PERFECT place to eat out. I live in beautiful Southern California, and there are many culinary treasures to be found within driving distance. Although we have our fair share of strip malls and chain...
Normally I come to you with nutritionally strict recipes, guidelines and information that corresponds with my traditional, whole food and home-made eating paradigm. Today I want to confess to you that I LOVE to eat out and I LOVE to indulge in foods that aren’t perfectly good for me. (After all, every traditional culture has a time...
This was a difficult list to put together, only because there were so many more foods I wanted to add. Pretty much 90% or more of what you find in a supermarket isn’t actually “food” and therefore should be included on the dumbest foods list, but I tried to form a good general list to...
Book Review/Annotation of In Defense of Food; An eater’s Manifesto By Michael Pollan I love this book! Michael Pollan has a home-run book again. In Pollan’s book, “The Omnivore’s Dilemma”, he exposed the many faces of the American food system and has dramatically influenced the whole foods revolution in America with his contagious phrase, Vote...
Need to eat right during pregnancy and lactation? Let’s begin by diving into the following recommendations for Pregnant and Nursing moms from the Weston A. Price Foundation (www.westonaprice.org). Diet for Pregnant and Nursing Mothers Cod Liver Oil to supply 20,000 IU vitamin A and 2000 IU vitamin D per day 1 quart (or 32 ounces)...