Yesterday’s paper brought an interesting article by Libby Quaid for the AP titled:

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There was a mildly bizarre tongue-in-cheek piece by restaurant critic Raymond Sokolov in today’s Wall Street Journal, titled “Operation Gobbler,” about how to use up left over Thanksgiving turkey.

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Today I spotted an interesting article by Tom Avril (Scripps-McClatchy News Service) titled in our local paper: Researcher counters meteor versus dinosaur theory of extinction.

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The front page article of the business section in today’s newspaper warmed my heart and got me to thinking that maybe, just maybe the tide will begin to turn on this epidemic of childhood obesity. The piece, by Gary Gentile, picked up in our local paper from the AP was titled: Read more »

A number of years ago, we purchased a small Haas avocado ranch on the central coast of California on which we had planned to build a home from which we could watch the sunset on the Pacific and eat a lot of guacamole. First one thing and then another interfered with our plans (mostly the obstructive, hostile posture of the local county planning board) and after several frustrating and expensive years of wrangling with them, we finally sold the property. It was our first foray into the world of agriculture and an eye-opening foray it was.

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I read with some measure of sadness a piece on the CNN website entitled: 1 in 5 Children Will Become Obese.

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In a blog a couple of days ago on the health benefits of cranberries I spoke of adding more of this antioxidant-filled, low-carb gem of a berry to the diet. I mentioned, as well, that for many people, the cranberry sadly makes only one or two appearances a year on the dinner table, perched atop the turkey and dressing on the holiday luncheon plate, usually in the form of jellied cranberry sauce (a concoctiion that I cannot abide, but, for reasons utterly unintelligible to me, my brother adores.)

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It’s not press-stopping news that foods contain antioxidants or that food-derived antioxidant compounds are beneficial to health and detrimental to disease. Gallons of ink (or more correctly in this ditgital age, lots of electrons) have been dispatched in recent years informing us of the salutory benefits of fresh fruits and veggies and extolling the particular virtues of eating broccoli, cabbage, red wine, coffee, tea, tomatoes, pomegranates, and even chocolate. Just let a health benefit be uncovered for a substance and an army of ad men comes out of the woodwork to spin the news to sell whatever it is. Comes now the cranberry.

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I clipped a good looking recipe for a Lavender Dressing out of my local paper the other day and as I was filing it away, I noticed a little blurb in the Food & News Notes with this headline: Read more »

A recent article in the LA Times (registration required, but free) gives us yet another good reason to eschew microwave popcorn: the flavor agent, diacetyl, widely used to give microwave popcorn its buttery flavor has been tied to the development of an irreversible lung disease called bronchiolitis obliterans that’s been cropping up with alarming regularity in the workers at popcorn factories.

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