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Category Archives: Living
Why Not French!
Too bad here in the US we don’t have a national cuisine that we would miss if it were suddenly taken away from us. Mediterranean countries have their diet, thousands of years old that some authorities claim is healthier than our … Continue reading
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Tagged boca negra, coq au vin, french cooking, Julia Child, national cuisine, real food, spinach
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What Progress Looks Like
If you are like me, changing your diet away from the typical Western Diet that is high in carbohydrates, artificial ingredients, and sugar and low in fat and natural nutrients you are looking for signs that you are on the … Continue reading
Food Poison
Poison in your food. According to the CDC (Center for Disease Control) one in six citizens will become ill from foods they eat each year. That would be five hundred million, give or take a few hundred thousand, that get … Continue reading
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Tagged e. coli, food borne pathogens, food poisoning, food processing, Food Safety, grass fed meats, industrial meats, salmonella
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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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Tagged EPA, FDA, GMO crops, government regulation, pesticide residue, real food
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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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Tagged carbohydrates, diabetes, eating healthy, high blood Pressure, high blood sugar, losing weight, low fat, obesity, western diseases
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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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Tagged ancient recipes, antique recipes, collops, real food, real meat recipes, salmagundy, soloman gundy
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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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Tagged ancient recipes, atkins diet, cookery, fanny farmer, reciepts, recipes
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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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Tagged bacon, charcuterie, curing meats, how to make bacon, smoking, smoking meats
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Think Your Problems Are Big?
Rare second post for today. Just trying to help you keep your biggest problems in perspective… Think this is the only place in the universe that developed life? The odds are slim.
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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Tagged addiction, carb addiction, fighting addiction, food addiction, Overeaters Anyonymous, sugar addiction
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One Small Change at a Time 