Friday, July 18th, 2008

The Omnivore’s Dilemma

Over the past year many books have been recommended to me, but the one cited most often was a book about food.  Several people told me that I HAD TO READ this book.  Well I finally did and boy were they right.

The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan was a [...]

Sunday, July 13th, 2008

Buffalo Meatball Recipe

Call me Omega 3 man.  None of that corn-fed, hormone-filled beef for me.  No thanks.  I’ll take the grass-fed buffalo any day.  After averaging several recipes together and checking what I had in my kitchen, I developed this buffalo meatball recipe.  Simple and delicious.

Photo is titled Meatball Army from Flickr user Mr. Usaji.  His photo [...]

Saturday, October 13th, 2007

The Anabolic Quality of Food

Last year when I visited Brazil one thing had me puzzled: How could the people be so lean when a large amount of the food was either fried or loaded with sugar?
The answer I came up with at the time was that they either ate less or just played endless hours of soccer. [...]