Posted in Personal Story, Preserving on Oct 26th, 2011
I’ve been canning for about three years now. During that time, I get looks of puzzlement when people ask me what my hobbies are and I reply “canning”. People tend to relate canning to frugality and most of them have decided that canning just doesn’t save enough money for the time and effort it takes. […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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, […]
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