Well I may be lax in my postings, but it seems even with over a month away from Mind to Mouth I am still ahead of the news, at least when it comes to the important things…like butter.
Scientific American Magazine published a short piece in their latest issue that addresses the recent studies that have [...]
There is nothing like a little scientific controversy to make a person feel like that guy with two watches. I got a bit mired in the discussion about how much vitamin D people need after we started to take fermented cod liver oil on a semi-regular basis. I wasn’t specifically looking to learn more [...]
I thought, fast forward ten years, that this would have been the book I wrote after rejecting the rat race and living off the land. Well, none of those things have quite happened yet (except, the rat race has been pretty much ignored in our house) but the book got written anyway- just, not by [...]
I have really been appreciating Michael Pollan’s recent tour circuit for his latest book Food Rules. With both The Daily Show and Oprah he has been hitting mainstream media with really important messages about food production and culture and is doing so is a way that is straight, truthful and ultimately seems easier for people [...]
There is a real joy in feeling resourceful, even with simple things. One of my favorite things to figure out is how to stretch the use of something and my least favorite thing is to waste food. The main focus of all this writing here has been how to eat well on a budget, but [...]
Our food in 2010 seems to be following a color pattern…
In Nourishing Traditions, there is one instance that Sally Fallon gives a thumbs up to the increased globalization (and industrialization) of food and that is to the availability of a wide variety of fruits and vegetables year round, which insures that people will eat enough [...]
To paraphrase Michael Pollan from his latest book, In Defense of Food, science has figured out pretty well now how to take apart food (going so far as the nucleus), but we are lousy at putting it back together. Though the foods we’ve fashioned over millennia do a great job keeping us at our best, [...]
Up late last night washing dishes, I caught a report from the BBC on the discovery of heart disease in Egyptian mummies. My approach to eating is generally guided by the idea that eating real food is better for overall health and enjoyment and real food is traditional and old. Well mummies are nothing if [...]
Two products have recently fallen out of favor in our house due to their being less “real” that we had previously thought. By real I just mean whole and tested through long term human consumption (think centuries). There are clearly some product that don’t fit this description that I still occasionally buy or eat- like [...]
This fall has been a hectic one but included the very fun task of making food for my friend who just had a first baby. Nursing moms (as well as pregnant ladies) are so fun to cook for because they eat a lions share, seem to especially enjoy eating, and really put that food to [...]
