Everyone has a story. Every story has a beginning. My journey to Real Food began a little less than 5 years ago. I sat in my living room, glued to the TV. (This, by the way, was highly unusual for me.) I was watching a documentary produced by the widow of Jerry Garcia called The…
Health Benefits of Raw & Fermented Foods
She sat across the table from me enviously eying my salad. “I’d really love some vegetables right now,” she said. We started talking about her diet — the typical diet of the typical American. I told her that 60-80% of the diet of traditional people groups isn’t cooked. “Oh,” she interrupted, “I bet I don’t cook 60% of the food I eat.” She missed my point. She was talking about sandwiches and cold breakfast cereals, snack bars and cheese sticks. Let’s not beat around the bush, people. The Standard American Diet (SAD) is cooked. Aside from the occasional salad or piece of fruit, we just don’t eat raw foods. In fact, we fear them.
Weekly Meal Plan
As promised, here’s my meal plan for the following week. This post is part of Orgjunkie.com’s Menu Plan Monday blog carnival. If you’re fishing for inspiration, go check out everyone else’s meal plans. I wrote this meal plan using my new, handy-dandy blank menu planner.
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!