A strange thing happened to me in 1991. All of a sudden my peanut butter cookies started coming out hard – like rocks. I have no idea where the recipe came from. It was the one my Mom always used, so it likely came from my Grandmother, a cookbook, or perhaps a Home Ec course [...]
Posts from ‘February, 2008’
The Lies on Your Yogurt Container
There has never been any debate that yogurt is a healthy food. Yogurt adds calcium and protein to the diet; can positively affect other health issues such as cholesterol, immunity and colon health; and is easier to digest than milk. Plain yogurt contains live bacteria that can regulate digestive issues and restore balance to a [...]
Eat Food. Not Too Much. Mostly Plants.
I was ready to dislike Michael Pollan’s In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto before I even picked it up. While I mostly enjoyed his previous book, The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, I felt that he did an awfully complicated song and dance in the steakhouse chapter to try and justify [...]
