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I’ve been wondering about guar gum for while–is it evil or benign. I thought it might be evil based on the tone of voice Michael Pollan used when he said the words but I got some yogurt at a farmer’s market that listed guar gum as one of the ingredients. Here’s a recap of the [...]

I’m still trying to decide if this means it will get harder or easier for me to find local wheat.

This Saturday (March is the CT NOFA Cultivating An Organic Connecticut Conference. It’s from 8:30 AM – 4:45 PM at Windsor High School, Windsor, CT. They called and invited me to be on a panel, but alas, I have other plans this weekend. Nonetheless, it looks like it should be a very interesting event.

Yikes! Where does the time go?! My plan to finish up all the freezer and pantry non-local fare turned out to be a non-event. The only thing in the freezer that isn’t local is one Big Y whole chicken. The pantry is filled with predominantly carbohydrates and I am still keeping to a moderate food [...]

Wednesday night was the February Full Moon Fireside at the Community of the Holy Spirit (aka the Sisters at Bluestone Farm in Brewster, NY). An ordinary Fireside begins with half an hour of drumming, followed by half and hour of meditation, and then an hour and a half of discussion on the topic of the [...]

Laura at Urban Hennery posed a Dark Days Eat Local Challenge. She’s posted her personal rules and encourages others to make their own. I’m in! I’m thinking that if I can’t get to 90%, I can at least have one local ingredient per meal. Does that sounds too easy? Wow– what progress! Three months ago, [...]

My partner has been sprouting seeds on the kitchen counter. We have an alfalfa, radish sprout mix and a chick pea, pea, lentil mix going. The sprouts are delicious and nutritious. I read that sprouts contain an enormous amount of vitamins and nutrients and that you could give up taking vitamin pills if you eat [...]

In a previous post, I expressed envy that a particular supermarket has a delivery service. You order groceries from their Web site and they bring it to your door. That’s one of the perqs of living in the 21st century. Oh that local, sustainably-grown foods came with the same convenience. As it happens, there are [...]

Last Saturday (9/8) , we ventured out on a foraging trip to a local Farmer’s Market. Finding a convenient Farmer’s Market is not as easy as you’d think. This is how the supermarkets suck you in–they’re ubiquitous and nearly always open. One even lets you shop online and delivers the food to your door. But [...]

With all due respect to Henry David Thoreau, I wish to eat more deliberately so that at the end of my days I would not realize that I hadn’t eaten food at all. Like I said, Kingsolver’s book Animal, Vegetable, Miracle awakened something in me and lit a match under my butt. Corporate food favors [...]