Killing Diversity — the Homogenization and Pastuerization of Cultures
Over the weekend we were invited to a lovely dinner party with an eclectic assortment of people. I immediately found myself deep in conversation with a lovely lady from Greece who told me of her favorite technique for making goat’s milk ricotta. The passion and enthusiasm that came through as she described just how the milk is heated and the lemon juice added was simply delicious. I could practically taste the fresh cheese myself. She was soon onto bewailing the fact that she could only get whole milk, pasteurized and homogenized and that the percentage of fat even in the adulterated full cream milk is ridiculously low in comparison to the percentage she was used to when she made it in Greece with raw milk from local goats. (More info: Manipulated ‘Milk’ and the Loss of the Creamline)
The following is from an amazing site that has all kinds of great information about biofilms and how these affect the health of our guts. I was thrilled to discover this article in particular as I have been exploring the similarities of my gut to the roots of trees of late in my healing baths in ...
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 ...
We are starting to hear more and more about epigenetics now that the genome has been mapped. It turns out that environment etc actually does have as much an impact on us as our genes. (Most of us are not in the slightest surprised), it also turns out that what we do nutritionally can affect our chil ...
I have a confession to make, I'm no patriot. In fact the very idea makes me nauseous. This is a post I have been thinking about writing for a long time now in the interest of transparency--but have been avoiding it as I know it will probably piss a lot of people off. To be honest I have a lot of co ...
The Internet Celebrities bring you the amazing Bronx bodega and how to get a full three to four course meal for $1.25! One of them even keeps within the 'yellow food group' and they release a whole new food pyramid for bodega shoppers (by the way you can buy a t-shirt with this food pyramid on it he ...
The One-Straw Revolution is Masanobu Fukuoka's manifesto about natural food and farming. It is a collection of short essays that were translated from Japanese. Masanobu was trained as a scientist, but rejected modern agribusiness and centuries of agriculture lore. He perfected what he called the ...
A while back I discovered Sepp Hasslberger's website which has an amazing amount of resources and information about a wide variety of topics. He recently posted a discussion he had with some friends on facebook about health reform and how to have health reform when there was a whole underlying probl ...
Most of my life I have been excessively healthy. No cavities, never sick, and with rapid healing powers so that I have no scars despite the multitude of oven burns and other disasters that being a chef generally involve (I have chopped off the tip of my left pointer finger several times--but you wou ...
As we all know the supplement industry is run by greed and money almost to the same degree as the pharmaceutical industry (if that's possible). I personally believe that we can get everything we need from our food, but at times we may not be able to afford to buy all organic or from farmers markets, ...
