On a quiet day last fall I flipped to an article in the latest Harper’s entitled “American Electra: Feminism’s ritual matricide” It didn’t really seem like an uplifting topic, but I was pulled into reading. I often find discussions about feminism relevant to the topic of cooking and other disappearing domestic skills. It’s a tricky association [...]
For the past year I have had the pleasure to spend 15 hrs straight each week in the lovely kitchen of the Marin Headlands Center for the Arts assisting Eduardo Morrell in the production of his naturally leavened breads, which are sold primarily at the Berkeley Farmer’s Markets as “Morrell’s Bread”. The video below was [...]
While post Thanksgiving might be a funny time to bring up the merits of a roasted bird, it seems like a good time to point out the fact that this is anything but a special occasion-only dish. I roast a chicken almost once a week. This makes a meal that is always a wonderful dinner, [...]
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 [...]
There is a post below on the limited visual experience of eating locally in the winter. Yes, even in the Bay Area where so much is available year round from not too far away, shopping at the farmer’s markets reveals growing seasons that limit choice and we saw, color. We have gone beyond emerging from [...]
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 [...]
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
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 [...]
