Helping the world to feel better, one bite of food at a time.
Posted in Personal Story on Sep 28th, 2011
In August of 2010, I was at a house party in Upstate New York when I realized that I was most likely gluten intolerant (if not celiac). For the last 10 years, I had followed a mostly low carb diet. It worked and I considered it a very healthy diet for me. Meats, full fat […]
Posted in food activism on Sep 25th, 2011
For most of my life, I hated milk. I stopped drinking it at a very young age (basically as soon as I could be stubborn enough that my mother realized that it was a lost battle). As I grew older, I realized that I’m lactose intolerant. How did I figure this out if I stopped […]
Posted in Personal Story on Sep 21st, 2011
In the last four days I’ve thrown away 5 cups of milk that I was trying to make into the holy grail of low temperature, raw milk yogurt. I’ve been making yogurt for number of years very successfully. Up until about a month ago I was regularly making yogurt with a locally produced milk I […]
Posted in Book Reviews on Sep 13th, 2011
Every so often when I find a book that I think people need to read, I’ll post a review. In the 1970’s Dr. Robert Atkins, a cardiologist, published “Dr. Atkins Diet Revolution” after following a low-starch diet based on work done previously by Gordon, Goldberg and Chosy in an article published in 1963 in […]
Posted in Ingredients on Sep 7th, 2011
While I was reading an article from Dr. Mercola on eggs last week, I started remembering how eggs have been respresented through my life. Growing up in the 70’s and 80’s eggs were vilified, they were the cause of heart disease and you were taking your life into your hands every time you ate one. The […]
Posted in Personal Story on Sep 1st, 2011
I grew up in the suburbs of Los Angeles, a fairly typical child of the early 70’s. My mom, a child of the depression, was much more interested in the price of food, rather than the quality of it. I can’t blame her, most people didn’t know the difference. She wasn’t very fond of cooking, […]
