Tag Archives: real food

What Progress Looks Like

Posted on January 31, 2015 by dcarmack

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 →

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What? Me Worry?

Posted on January 29, 2015 by dcarmack

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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A Supper For January, 1764 style

Posted on January 27, 2015 by dcarmack

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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Temporary Insanity

Posted on January 13, 2015 by dcarmack

I am reading today in the Mother Jones online magazine about the California almond industry. Almond production now has grown to the point that it is an ‘industry’ and Wall Street traders are beginning to swoop into the market for … Continue reading →

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Caring About Everyone Is Hard

Posted on January 8, 2015 by dcarmack

I have finished the gigantic tome “The Big Fat Surprise” by Nina Teicholz. I am depressed. I am depressed because I am one hundred percent convinced that every word found in the final, summary chapter is true. I am depressed … Continue reading →

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Good For English, Bad For Truth

Posted on December 22, 2014 by dcarmack

English has won by not losing. Do you recall the Unilever lawsuit against Hampton Creek that was for producing a product that looks like mayonnaise, but is not mayonnaise, while calling it “mayo”. Unilever dropped that lawsuit. The truth has … Continue reading →

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Preaching To The Converted

Posted on December 2, 2014 by dcarmack

One of the hardest things to do, as a dad, mom, grandpa, or grandma, is to silently watch as your kids and grandkids make mistakes. Making mistakes and learning the hard way is sometimes the only way that lessons can … Continue reading →

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Don’t Clean Your Plate

Posted on December 1, 2014 by dcarmack

If you eat out in the US, you should probably start training yourself immediately to ignore Mom’s advice from days of old to ‘clean your plate’. If you eat everything they bring you, not only will you be uncomfortable for … Continue reading →

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Emulsion or Immitation

Posted on November 23, 2014 by dcarmack

  If you make something the way that it has been made for centuries, then you could rightly claim that your product is ‘authentic’. If you use only natural ingredients, the same ingredients that were in existence when your grandparents … Continue reading →

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There Is Just No Way of Knowing Why, Right?

Posted on November 9, 2014 by dcarmack

According to the New York Times this morning: Colon Cancer Rates Rising in Young Adults According to the actual abstract of the Journal of the American Medical Association study: Based on current trends, in 2030, the incidence rates for colon … Continue reading →

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