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Wise Traditions London 2011 – DVDs Available Now

Wise Traditions London 2011 – DVDs Available Now

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 mu ...

Edible Oil Wars: Early 1900s USA

Edible Oil Wars: Early 1900s USA

Please take some time and read the full article here, it is really long and actually has two parts! I have extracted my favorite sections and it is still very long. I have left out some of the very interesting examples of traditional societies foods, as well as the history and description of how veg ...

Edible Oil Wars: Adulterated Mustard Oil

Edible Oil Wars: Adulterated Mustard Oil

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 Hijac ...

Edible Oil Wars: Genetically Modified Oils

Edible Oil Wars: Genetically Modified Oils

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 nutri ...

Wild Blackberry Ice Cream

Wild Blackberry Ice Cream

This delicious raw homemade ice cream will astound you with its fragrant flavor. Raw honey and cream, 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 ...

Nourishing Traditions

Nourishing Traditions

I bought this book when I was a student at Wellpark College in New Zealand. It was 2001, I had fled the U.S. of A in 1999 after working for Clean Water Action and reading several books about the amount of genetically modified foods being unwittingly consumed in America. I was taking classes on n ...

Beware the Pharmaceutical

Beware the Pharmaceutical

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 preservativ ...

Free Fat

Free Fat

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 ...

Schmaltz and Grebenes

Schmaltz and Grebenes

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 ...