They’re fast. They’re nutritious. We eat them every morning. And sometimes we eat them with lunch or dinner. Popular with kids as well as parents, smoothies enable you to sneak in all kinds of healthy vegetables and proteins your family members might otherwise turn their nose up at. Make them with totally fresh, raw ingredients…
More Advantages of Grass-Fed Beef
Yes, there are health benefits to eating grass-fed beef. But there are other advantages as well. For example, rotating cattle through pastures by allowing them to intensively graze on young, shooting grass builds an inch of fertile top soil every year! That’s because grass grows down as well as up. When a cow walks by…
Mark Bittman Says Food Matters
The U.S. is arguably the richest country in the world, but we rank only 45th in the world in terms of life expectancy. Why is that? In this interview clip, Mark Bittman, author of Food Matters: A Guide to Conscious Eating, reminds us that 20 years ago, we spent 17% of our income on food…
Michael Pollan: On Traditional Food Cultures
Here’s a gem of an interview with Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma and In Defense of Food, in which he talks about the wisdom of traditional food cultures and what practical advice we can glean from them. Enjoy!
New Food Resolutions
I don’t do New Year’s Resolutions. I’m just not goal-oriented enough to care. But, I also realize the value of turning a new leaf, of making steps towards living the life we care about. I know the value of repentance. In honor of Change For the Better and the New Year, I thought I’d spend…
The War Against Local Food Rages On
Five years ago, my hero Joel Salatin (self-described as a “Christian libertarian environmentalist lunatic farmer”) published an article called Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal. Last year, he published a book by that name (A Food Renegade Must Read). Why would a farmer’s life be illegal? Ask the feds. From this press release: On…
Food Matters
The trailer for this recent documentary looks promising. I’ll be watching the film tonight. Food Matters Official Trailer from foodmatters on Vimeo. Unfortunately the film’s not yet on Netflix, but you can view it online directly for a one-time fee of $4.95 here.
Mark Bittman – What’s wrong with what we eat?
NY Times Food Writer, Mark Bittman, gave a TED talk in December 2007 on what’s wrong with our food. While I’m forever in debt to Mark for bringing us the famous No-Knead Bread recipe, and I appreciate his critique of industrial agricultural techniques in the TED video below, I think his arguments fail to see…
King Corn Gives Us A Laugh
You know those infuriating ads promoting high fructose corn syrup? Those terribly misleading ads intended to make people think this concoction of the devil is tame, even wholesome? Those ads like this one: Well, the guys at King Corn spoofed it. And it’s funny. Darn funny.
Global Diet Researcher Discovers "The Jungle Effect"
I just stumbled upon a great podcast interview of Daphne Miller, the global diet researcher who recently published a book called The Jungle Effect in which she makes a good case for indigenous diets. (I haven’t read the book, but the premise sounds good. Maybe I’ll buy it and review it for you guys.) In…