Deep Fried Filet Mignon and Other Forms of Adultery

Take Paleo out of the picture for a moment; some food preparations are just…wrong!   I walked past a restaurant the other day and had a quick peruse of the menu; deep-fried filet mignon was one offering that caught my eye in particular. Why would you do that to such a gorgeous piece of meat? […]

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Choosing Your Chicken: Organic, Air-Chilled or…Aged?

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 […]

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Does Organic Mean There’s Going to be Bugs?

In a word…yes.  But only once in a while. A friend reached out to me yesterday after she’d encountered bugs in not one, not two, but three different veggies she’d purchased at Whole Foods, including a prepared kale to go from the salad bar! Finding  a little bug or worm on organic produce does happen […]

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Peanuts in Cola…Really?

It sounded like something I would have made up as a joke, but sadly, it wasn’t.   The headlining title on one of the ‘foodie’ e-newsletters I receive suggested putting roasted, salted peanuts in a bottle of cola as a snack idea that combined sweet and savory. The article mentioned that “nobody knows who exactly […]

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