Category Archives: Health

What? Me Worry?

I am doing everything I can, and I am doing it the easy way–I don’t eat industrial meats or processed foods. Today there is an Op-Ed piece at CNN.com raising the author’s concerns about the rising level of allowable herbicide and … Continue reading

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Fighting Big Media

I could point out to you one hundred health or food articles from last month that make sure to mention, at least once, the conventional wisdom that you should make efforts to lower the dietary fat in your foods. I … Continue reading

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A Supper For January, 1764 style

Reading a cook-book from 250 years ago is like jumping out of a time machine. You can’t really trust your mental dictionary, because every word may mean something else back then. Read the following recipes from an ebook I found … Continue reading

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Inspirational Resources (gotta love history)

If there is a drawback to being at the forefront of a revolution, it is that there are less places you can turn for ideas about how to proceed than are available for those who want to keep living like … Continue reading

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Salmon en Croute

Originally posted on TwinDays:
An elegant dish: Salmon stuffed Puff Pastry. Sea food is so delicious plus they say that eating fish twice a week is good for your health! Fish are a lean, healthy source with high level of…

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Preschool Foie Gras…

Originally posted on One Small Change at a Time:
…As in paté. The main ingredient in Foie Gras is duck liver, and the liver must contain lots of liver-fat. In order to find a duck with a fatty liver, in…

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Makin’ Bacon

I don’t know anyone that doesn’t salivate like Pavlov’s dogs at the smell of frying bacon. These days a bacon breakfast is a meal fit for a king, as the price of industrially produced bacon hovers between eight and ten … Continue reading

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Love Your Addict

  One of the great things about having this blog to put things that I find that are relevant to food, nutrition, addiction and breaking habits is that my electronic friends out there on the internet will send me links … Continue reading

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Know Your Farmer

  When I tell people that they should purchase foods from the farmer at the farmer’s market, or from a friend who farms, sometimes I get the argument “we all can’t eat local foods, there just aren’t enough local farmers … Continue reading

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Scientific Wild-A** Guess

What is the ultimate source of change for a human desiring change? If change is happening in your life, where does the ability to cope with the change come from, and is there anything you can do to make that … Continue reading

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