Category: Blog

I contacted a friend, Jackie, whose family is from the Middle East and has spent time in Lebanon. She, along with various cooks, and websites taught me about the food… [Continue Reading]

Some people on various social media platforms have been speaking about the food we are eating nowadays, stating that it is less nutritious than the same food eaten 100 years… [Continue Reading]

Mise en Place is the all important first steps one takes to get ready to cook. Chefs will always say, in regards to cooking, that most of the actual time… [Continue Reading]

I always stress eating in season, organic and pesticide free; preferably harvested from local, small to medium sized family farms that practice regenerative farming. Boy, that is not only a… [Continue Reading]

The proper steps to tasting drinks are to see, sniff, salivate, slurp, swirl, savor, and spit; with some foolish people trying to snort. I will share what I do on… [Continue Reading]

This post gathers up all the absolutely meaningless food labels we are confronted with when we go grocery shopping at conventional or even specialty stores. I find these labels meaningless… [Continue Reading]

I am not a cookbook collector, but have had, on average ~30 cookbooks on a shelf in my kitchen, and ~15 food-related in my library at any one time. Over… [Continue Reading]

I wanted to make Egyptian Hawawshi using pita bread instead of a more traditional home made bread. I realized that this makes the meal, or snack, much more of a… [Continue Reading]

So far, all the studies, even those by scientists who are not supported by GMO companies, show that there is little harm to human health by current GMO crops. Now… [Continue Reading]

I just finished a little course (free to take) on Being a Regenerative Consumer: What you need to know about organic food & farming to have a positive impact for… [Continue Reading]

This post idea started when I was reading up on Mars explorations, and how we can live there. That got me to thinking about what food-related plants would I bring… [Continue Reading]

We are aware of the Whitewashing and the many ways people, governments, and corporations modify or outright lie to change historical facts so that their responsibility is minimized. Today my… [Continue Reading]

I am interrupting my previously scheduled post with this one, as we have just visited a wonderful Mediterranean restaurant in San Leandro that is absolutely worth the drive. If I… [Continue Reading]