Regional Eating: Vietnamese Cuisine

In continuation with the idea to post regional suggestions, both for cooking at home, and ordering at restaurants, today's entry has a Far East Focus: Vietnamese Cuisine! Common ingredients used in traditional Vietnamese Cooking include  fish sauce, soy sauce, rice, fresh herbs (including lemon grass, mint, Vietnamese mint, long coriander and Thai basil leaves) and a […]

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Crab Meat in a Package??

Sounds doubtful, I know, but I couldn't resist!  As much as I love crab meat and as much as I love Whole Foods, the other day while buying my weekly fare, I came across crab meat in a vacuum-packed container in the seafood department.  A quick review of the label revealed : crab meat! With […]

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Did Paleo Man Take Anti-Oxidants?

Well, it depends- certainly not in pill form, but the diet that was followed in those times was so rich in nutrients, and lacking in today's anti nutrients, that we can rest assured that paleolithic man did, indeed get his anti oxidants! So, then, if we are true to our roots and follow the same […]

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Stage IV Recovery Foods- and Grain…

If you've read The Paleo Diet for Athletes, you're familiar with the part in the post training section where various grains are listed as good  sources for high glycemic carbohydrate.   Do you have to eat grains, then? Absolutely not! I've found that by drinking my homebrew immediately post long workouts, then following up with […]

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