I hesitate to call it a ‘new’ fruit or veggie if it’s just something that I personally haven’t seen before. That certainly doesn’t make it new, other than ‘new to me’. One of the fun things about shopping at your local farmer’s market is encountering fruits and veggies that you may not have heard of, […]
Read More ›If you’re buying your chicken based on cost alone, there are many factors that you may be overlooking. First and foremost, cheaper is almost always not best; often the bargain priced poultry has come from a battery-caged producer whose best interest is not in the health or treatment of their birds, let alone the consequences […]
Read More ›As a rule of thumb, that is. A regular blog reader forwarded me a link to an article in the paper in her hometown that she labeled, ‘Comic relief for the evening’, and yes, it was laughable but not actually so funny. The title of the article was “The Health Benefits of Legumes” and […]
Read More ›This was an interesting question I came across recently, one that I’d never heard of before. The premise was ‘if pigs don’t have sweat glands in their skin, then does that mean they’re not excreting toxins, and then aren’t they, therefore, a ‘dirty’ meat to ingest’? True, pigs do not have sweat glands, but […]
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