See you in San Francisco
I’m putting up a short post just to let everyone know I’m still alive. MD and I have both had incredibly hectic schedules lately that have precluded us from attending to our blogs. MD and the Santa Barbara Choral Society just performed Ralph Vaughn Williams A Sea Symphony over the past weekend, which activity (the aforementioned wretched choral society) has consumed all her time. I, for the first time in a long time, have become a working stiff.
The sous vide project has gone wild. Instead of watching from the sidelines and showing up at board meetings, which heretofore has been my chief activity vis a vis the company, I am now in charge of the entire direct-to-consumer operation. Consequently, I have been on the road and will continue to be a road warrior for a while.
Tomorrow, in fact, will find MD and me in San Francisco at the Sur La Table store for a Sous Vide Supreme demonstration. Richard Blais, the chef pictured above with the two us (he’s the one with the faux hawk), will be doing the demo, but MD and I will be in attendance. So, if you want to drop by and meet us, have a chat or just see how much older we look in person than in our photographs, come on down to the Ferry Building Marketplace in San Francisco tomorrow (May 8th) from 10 ‘til 2. Hope to see you there.
And I hope to be back to some sort of regular blogging schedule maybe next week. I don’t have to leave until the end of the week.
I just bought our second SVS, this one as a gift for my parents. They will be coming over for dinner on Sunday and I’d like to fix them something that demonstrates what really makes sous-vide special prior to giving to them, and the recipe needs to work because I’ll only have the one chance. So far I’ve had mixed results (for example we did a store-bought corned beef which by itself was worth the cost of the machine, but then tried a grass-fed home-corned brisket at the same temp/time as the one from Safeway, and it came out mushy).
Can you recommend a recipe or two for the purpose?
Just a thought; did our ancestors diverge from the carnivore lifestyle to grab handsful of foliage and fruit when they lost the ability to make ascorbic acid? (most likely tho they lost vit C early on, ate primate diet first, then learned to hunt).
What was the advantage of losing vitamin C? Some parasites are exquisitely sensitive to oxidative stress – malaria can select for lower production of glutathione (favism). But vit C is pro-oxidant as well, probably not the best choice of an antioxidant to limit in this case.
It’s one thing to explain how those fruit-eating animals without vit C synthesis survived, quite another to explain how those otherwise identical animals that still made vit C died off. A parasite like malaria is still my best guess.
Sounds like you have a busy life and a busy weekend planned in SF. Have a good trip. Can’t wait to hear an update when you get back.
dr. eads.
i just came across your blog today, when i was given a link to the ketogenic diet and seizure blog. I have been thinking about going back on the ketogenic diet as i tried it about 25 years ago and felt very good while on it.. when the blog talked about the ketogenic diet aiding in the functioning of the potassium channels in the brain i was flabbergasted,,i am in the process of being diagnosed for a very rare potassium ion channelopathy called andersen tawil syndrome.. while on the ketogenic diet i felt about the best i ever have and now i know why. Could you explain in laymens terms why this diet might be either beneficial or non beneficial i would appreciate it..
How Well Are Those Statins Working For You?…
Yes, that’s right, your doctor has you on a drug that has little chance of having any benefit for you……
bloglines lost my account and now I can’t find your comments feed again, not the individual post comments but the one I was subscribed to before that gave me all the comments no matter what post they were on.
Dr. Eades,
Just curious …did you live in Allen Park, MI when growing up? If so, you were our neighbor for a short while on Becker Street.
Congratulations on all your successes!!!
I did indeed live on Becker St in Allen Park for a few years. Just a few houses down from you on the same side of the street, in fact. It’s really great to hear from you.
Mike