Just when you think industrial food couldn’t get any more disgusting… I watched a 60 Minutes segment on food flavoring. When talking about “natural flavorings,” Morely Safer made a comment about beaver butt glands. This reminded me of an article I’d recently read out on the Intertubes talking about this “natural flavoring” from a beaver’s [...]
Posts from ‘November, 2011’
5th Annual Dark Days Eat Local Challenge
Laura over at (not so) Urban Hennery is continuing the Dark Days Eat Local Challenge tradition. The rules are to cook one meal each week featuring SOLE (sustainable, organic, local, ethical) ingredients and write about it on your blog. We set our own food zones and exceptions.Weekly recaps by group are posted over at (not [...]
Thanksgiving 2011
This was an interesting year for agriculture, to say the least. Still, our farmers and producers were able to pull it off. Here’s our Thanksgiving 2011 feast: Appetizers: Chilled Roasted Golden Beets from Fort Hill Farm Spicy Icebox Pickled Carrots from my 2010 canning adventure Roasted Red Peppers Maple Bank Farm Assorted Cheeses: Pleasant Cow, [...]
Foraging for Thanksgiving
I was wondering if my Thanksgiving foraging wasn’t a bit like the retail Black Friday games. I mean, I got up early so I could get to the New Haven Wooster Market before Trinity Dairy ran out of butter and cream. (Because I have pies, mashed potatoes, and whipped cream to think about!) Though the [...]
Studies show water may not have health benefits
In an attempt to standardize language to describe food and food processing and to protect the consumer from potentially false claims, some bureaucracies don’t know when to call in their logic team. Here’s the latest example: EU bans claim that water can prevent dehydration. Yes, you read that right. Since it has not been proven [...]
