On Edible Flowers

Edible flowers were and are all the rage in some culinary circles, but I find many people hesitant either to try and cook with flowers, or to eat them if they are served. This hesitancy probably stems from unfamiliarity with the long-standing custom of eating flowers and using them as flavorings in food. It probably […]

The Issue of Eating Locally Appears in This Week’s Time Magazine (With Quotes From Yours Truly…)

The current issue of Time Magazine, which just came out this morning, contains a lot of really neat articles about food, eating, health, family meals pasture-raised beef, and eating locally. For regular readers of this blog, the topics covered by Time in this series of articles makes it something worth looking into, and I highly […]

Why I Eat Locally Produced, Pasture-Raised Meats

Allright, let’s talk turkey here. Actually, let’s talk cow. This is all about why I eat locally produced, pasture-raised beef*, even though it is much more expensive than the CAFO (concentrated animal feeding operations) or “feedlot” produced, factory farm meats available at every Walmart, Safeway and Kroger’s in the country. My first reason is this: […]

Considering Cravings

One of the most mythic aspects of pregnancy that nearly everyone talks about, or has a story or two about are the odd food cravings that women go through. Since it is something that is happening to me on a daily basis, I felt the need to talk about it, because, for one thing, I […]

Super-Quick Allergy Update

I got a call from my doctor’s office today. It wasn’t the shrimp. It was the black pepper. I am allergic to black pepper. Very weird. They didn’t give me any more information than that, so I don’t know how strong of an allergy it is. What I do know is that I made keema […]

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