My kids had one of those marshmallow/rice-crispy dessert thingies this morning at church.
I got to thinking about those. Basically what those are is melted marshmallows mixed with Rice Crispies. Would my great-great-grandmother have been able to make those? Nope. They are made from a highly processed cereal and a highly processed “candy.” Each of those [...]
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Raw Materials
Posted in foodosophy on July 27, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Great Video on Raw Milk
Posted in foodosophy, government on June 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Life Expectancy
Posted in foodosophy on April 30, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I’ve been meaning to post about life expectancy since a friend asked me about it recently. Now I don’t have to. Bryan has posted an excellent analysis of the situation.
Keeping it Fresh
Posted in foodosophy on April 9, 2008 | 4 Comments »
No, I’m not talking about keeping food fresh.
For me, staying interested in something can sometimes be a struggle. For me it is important to keep things fresh and new in order to hold my interest. That sounds odd coming from a blog about tradition as it relates to food. Yes, I want to follow wise [...]
Expensive Food
Posted in foodosophy on March 7, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Most people I know decide what food to buy by comparing prices. If you have two chickens of equal weight and one costs $1 more than the other, the cheapest one is by and large the one that gets purchased. A chicken is a chicken, right?
Even many of the people who purchase organic foods spend [...]
Tradition
Posted in foodosophy, tradition on December 6, 2007 | 2 Comments »
While this is a blog mostly about food, it is also a blog about tradition. While traditional foods and preparation methods are important to me, traditions unrelated to food are also very important to me.
Weston A. Price’s book Nutrition and Physical Degeneration first demonstrated to me that many traditional diets (though not necessarily all) promote [...]
Another Reason to Eat Local
Posted in foodosophy on October 11, 2007 | 1 Comment »
When food is produced in mass quantities and shipped all over the world, the chance of national or global contamination scares is high.
ConAgra Defends Pot Pie Health Alert
(Just more evidence to demonstrate that it is not raw milk that is dangerous, but our industrialized food system…)
Why Local?
Posted in foodosophy on October 10, 2007 | No Comments »
The local food movement seems to be growing rapidly. I happen to be an advocate of buying locally produced foods.
It seems there are a variety of reasons for eating local. However, the most popular reason is not my primary reason. Often people advocate local foods because it is better for the environment, e.g it reduces [...]
My Food Journey (part 4)
Posted in faith, foodosophy on August 28, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Start with part 1…
One day we decided to get on the scales. That caused a great deal of weeping and wailing and a sudden drive to lose weight. We leaped on the low-fat bandwagon with a vengeance. Unfortunately, it didn’t seem to have very much affect at all.
At some point along in here we ran [...]
Intro to Price and Pottenger
Posted in foodosophy on August 22, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Here’s a great introduction to why I eat the way I do. The thing that concerns me most about today’s diet is the cumulative generational affect. That is, a population continuing to eat denatured foods for multiple generations will become progressively worse with each generation… The sins of the fathers will be visited upon the [...]
Food and Money
Posted in foodosophy on August 8, 2007 | No Comments »
I’ve been meaning to write this post for some time now, but Jenny did it for me:
Food and Money
Local Food
Posted in foodosophy on July 26, 2007 | No Comments »
In a previous post I made it sound as though I am a proponent of the local food movement. In many ways I am, but I believe that it can be taken to an extreme. There are problems with a 100% local diet.
For example, Weston Price found that healthy land-locked societies went to great lengths [...]
My Food Journey (part 3)
Posted in faith, foodosophy on July 25, 2007 | No Comments »
Start with part 1…
Some of you have been quite disturbed about where you think I’m heading with this. Realize that what I’m describing is not necessarily how I currently believe, but the thought process I went through.
At this point I wanted to get married to a nice Christian girl (to whom I am still married) [...]
The American Diet
Posted in foodosophy on June 28, 2007 | 4 Comments »
The major problems I see with the American diet are:
Dead food - everything is killed to death. There are no beneficial cultures left after we’re done with the food and many nutrients are gone. e.g. canned food, pasteurized dairy, etc. Antibiotics exacerbate this problem.
Nutrient deficient food - the soil is depleted. We use synthetic fertilizers [...]
My Food Journey (part 2)
Posted in faith, foodosophy on June 14, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Start with part 1…
Having been raised in a church that put a strong emphasis on health, I have retained my interest in a healthy lifestyle to this day. But my opinion on what is healthy has changed dramatically.
Toward my late teens early twenties, I rejected most of what I had been taught up until that [...]
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