With the Wise Traditions conference here in the US just around the corner I thought it appropriate to post this series of DVDs from the London 2011 Conference. Great series. Samples from many of the talks are available on Vimeo here. Unfortunately I’m not gonna be at the conference this year. Too much going on! [...]
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The history of the rise of the refined vegetable oil industry in the US and it's effect on our health. "The anti-fat, anti-cholesterol fad is not just foolish and futile...it also carries some risk." AMA 1957
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Given the rising plethora of food outbreaks courtesy of our industrial food system, this article will give us some history and a clear example of how large-scale agriculture is destroying every corner of our world. The following events are taken from Vandana Shiva’s book Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply, which was [...]
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After reading this recent horrific news about what the biotech industry is plotting for our supposed ‘health’ by manipulating vegetable oils even further, we realized we need more info about oil and fat and the economic battles that are being and have been fought over this most basic and vital nutrient for humankind on this [...]
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This delicious raw homemade ice cream will astound you with its fragrant flavor. Raw honey, locally farmed free range raw eggs, wild blackberries and soaked and toasted walnuts make this treat utterly sin-free. Pure good good goodness. Makes 2 quarts 8 raw egg yolks, free range 1 t cardamom 1 1/2 c raw honey 2 [...]
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A review of Nourishing Traditions, the wonderful cookbook and information source by Sally Fallon Morell.
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In the Americas we don’t know whether what we are eating is genetically modified or not. We don’t know what other types of additions we are getting in our meat and dairy either. Food is also “enhanced” with all kinds of vitamins and minerals as well as flavorings, toxins, colorings and preservatives. These are the [...]
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Free The Traditional Fats 2002 marked a turning point for traditional fats with the report by the Institute of Medicine that no level of trans-fats is safe in our diets. In 2003 a set of very informative articles were published in the San Francisco Chronicle. In them our out-dated information about the evils of saturated [...]
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The Rendering of Chicken or Goose Fat to Create Delicious Cracklings. A real old fashioned traditional recipe from Jewish Cookery by Leah W. Leonard Cut fatty fowl skin and other fat clusters into 1-inch cubes or strips Cover with cold water Cook in a heavy kettle or frying pan, covered for 20 to 25 minutes [...]
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The eleven pillars of traditional diets. Sally Fallon Morell's Weston A. Price Foundation meeting in New Zealand 2003.
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