Originally posted August 2, 2013. Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., has created one of the most vital books on the health of your family you will ever find, The 150 Healthiest Food on Earth. The lavishly illustrated, 358-page weighty tome gives you more vital information on foods that can keep your family healthy than any other […]
Ethical, Sustainable Foie Gras?
About a five-hour car drive southwest of Madrid, a fifth-generation Spanish farmer and an ecologist and migratory bird expert are in business together—the foie gras business. Foie gras is, of course, that wonderful buttery, fatty goose or duck liver that is revered in Europe, especially in France. It’s also banned in at least 20 countries […]
Wine Investing—Burgundy or Bordeaux?
I have three full EuroCave, Revelation wine coolers. And not a bottle of Bordeaux or Cabernet in residence. In Jay Mcinerney’s excellent The Wine Questionnaire, Jay puts the Burgundy or Bordeaux question to a number of experts Daniel Johnnes, Wine director for Daniel Boulud’s Dinex Group: “Ask anyone in the world of wine and they […]
Eat Avocados, not Strawberries
Remember when you could buy strawberries only in spring and early summer? How lucky we now are to be able to buy strawberries and pretty much anything else—asparagus, peaches, nectarines, tomatoes—all through those dreary winter months. Right? Well, maybe not. Recently strawberries topped the list of fruits and veggies (pushing apples out of top slot) […]
Julia Child’s First Lunch in France
The following excerpt is taken from My Life in France by Julia Child and Alex Prud’homme. We began our lunch with a half-dozen oysters on the half-shell. I was used to bland oysters from Washington and Massachusetts, which I had never cared much for. But this platter of portugaises had a sensational briny flavor and […]
Niman Ranch Sells to Perdue Farms
Originally posted October 20, 2015. Would it surprise you that a number of stalwarts in the organic food industry are now owned by big conventional food companies? Stonyfield (yogurt) is now owned by Group Danone, Earthbound Farms is owned by Whitewave, Applegate Farms is owned by Hormel, Honest Tea is part of Coca-Cola, and Cascadian […]
Beyond Butter
Originally posted August 14, 2014. In the 1960s, U.S. government health guidelines, the medical establishment, and especially the processed food industry urged Americans to forsake butter and instead focus on grain-based processed foods and industrial-produced seed and vegetable oils. Grocery shelves were soon brimming with low-fat and no-fat faux foods packed with sugar, carbohydrates and […]
Counterfeit Duck Confit—Big Flavor Fast
Originally posted August 3, 2015. David Lebovitz—chef, baker, cookbook author, and ex-pat living in Paris (read his The Sweet Life in Paris) says that traditional recipes for duck confit can involve dozens of steps to prepare. Duck confit is the ancient way of preserving meat in an airtight grease pack. Before the days of refrigeration, […]
Corruption of Science by Government Money and Government Process
In 1980 our government issued dietary guidelines promoting a low-fat diet to then 220 million Americans, “even though the science supporting such guidelines was known to be weak at best and plenty of evidence was available even at that time to suggest that the recommendations were unsound,” writes Francis Menton in his blog, Manhattan Contrarian. […]
The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth Series Two—#1
Originally posted September 23, 2013. Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., has created one of the most vital books on the health of your family you will ever find, The 150 Healthiest Food on Earth. The lavishly illustrated, 358-page weighty tome gives you more vital information on foods that can keep your family healthy than any other […]
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