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Why Organic shouldn’t be a choice

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

It’s great that I can choose to spend the extra money on Organic food, so that I don’t have any conventionally grown food available in my house and so that every penny I spend on food (which is a high percentage of all my pennies- more like 20%, versus the national average of 9%) But [...]

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Rolling in dough

Sunday, May 23, 2010

Over the past few months I’ve changed my relationship with these sourdough beasties I’ve befriended to leaven and flavor my baked goods. I’ve both expanded the amount and variety of goods that I can make with them and I’ve let the little things be warm and active for longer periods. That is to say by [...]

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Breaking News: Things on this blog are not wrong.

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

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 [...]

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D is for Duh

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

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 [...]

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Pollan on a Roll

Monday, February 8, 2010

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 [...]

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Keep it together: The need for whole food

Friday, December 18, 2009

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, [...]

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We Eat Like Kings

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

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 [...]

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Keeping to real foods

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

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 [...]

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All I need to do now is grow some spelt

Friday, October 23, 2009

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 [...]

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The itinerant kitchen

Friday, September 11, 2009

We were on foot for four weeks. We never stayed in one place longer than an overnight. Staying around would have meant less time on foot and more time in a hitched ride or bus as we only had the four weeks to get from San Francisco to Portland. The 27 nights went by like [...]

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