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Real Food, From the Pages of History
Our language is alive and well. I know this because I am trying to interpret the menus and recipes (receipts) from 1764, and many of the words I can’t even find on the internet, the techniques are lost to the … Continue reading
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Tagged ancient wisdom, eating food in season, real food, real meat recipes
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How To Read A Label
By far, the best way to look at a package of food in your local grocery is in another shopper’s cart. Going down every aisle is an exercise in futility. Trying to decide which highly-processed artificial food is healthier than … Continue reading
Gotta Eat It All
If you are contemplating eating only meat for a living, you have to come to terms with the fact that you will be eating from the entire animal, not just the pieces you are used to eating. Primary muscles may … Continue reading
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Tagged All meat diet, breaking habits, carbohydrates, dehydration, low carbohydrate diet, offal, protein, protien, real food, real meat recipes
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Carbon Footprints
Not True! Today in the online magazine Slate I read this: “Current evidence shows that the average U.S. diet has a larger environmental impact in terms of increased [greenhouse gas] emissions, land use, water use, and energy use,” reads the … Continue reading
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Tagged addiction, beef, being change, breaking habits, carbohydrates, Change for the Better, Eat like your grandparents did, real food
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If It’s Easy, You’re Probably Doing It Right
Life is perpetuated by the energy of the sun. Every living thing, even creatures that dwell in deep caves in the bowels of the Earth rely on something coming into that cave from the outside, thus bringing the energy to … Continue reading
I Was So Misled
For most of my life, right up until I started reading “Why We Get Fat” by Gary Taubes, I believed like most people that a person had to eat fruit and vegetables in order to stay healthy. Now that I … Continue reading
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Tagged artificial ingredients, carbohydrate, eating healthy, gary taubes, how to lose weight, processed food, real food
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How It All Began
I love to cook. I love to cook things that lots of people don’t even realize that you can cook for yourself. I make my own salad dressings, like ranch and Russian. I make my own mayonnaise, yogurt, bacon, corned … Continue reading
Enough, With the Doom and Gloom
And now, for a little light reading… The past few days have been very heavy information days. With the new government dietary advice coming out, and that advice not being one hundred percent in agreement with the advice that I … Continue reading
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Tagged bacon, brining pork, curing pork, heritage pork bacon, prague cure 1, real food, real meat recipes, smoking pork, sodium nitrite cure
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Nina Weighs In
One of my favorite champions of natural fats in our diet, Nina Teicholz, author of one of my favorite books “The Big Fat Surprise,” has offered us her opinion of the new dietary guidelines from the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee. This … Continue reading
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Tagged Big Fat Surprise, carbohydrates, losing weight, Nina Teicholz, real food, sugar, USDA
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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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One Small Change at a Time 