The weather this year (not to mention my blog posts) seemed to just just skip summer. I got away to some blazing Oregon days, swam in a some rivers and helped out a bit with a new baby in the family. But Fall seemed to just shove its way in and it felt like no [...]
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Explaining why cod liver oil is so good for you sounds like a pitch for a miracle cure or for some snake oil* hoax. The Weston A Price Foundation, who considers the stuff a super food states: “There is hardly a disease in the books that does not respond well to treatment that includes cod [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
