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We’re just beginning to learn about some of the beneficial plant nutrients (also called phytonutrients) that God added to the pomegranate. There are dozens of sciency names for the various polyphenols, flavonoids, and other plant chemical goodies to which we can point. But the bottom line is that we’re learning that pomegranates are literally some …
The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations. – Barbara Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Mineral Why Eat Local Food? Why would anyone choose to buy meat and produce from local farmers instead of from the grocery store? Why do some people spend time in …
You may not be looking for cooking lessons, but what about a funny, absorbing, vacation book guaranteed to teach you something you can use in the kitchen when you head back home? The Kitchen Counter Cooking School is is just as worthy of space in your beach bag as it is on your cookbook shelf. …
What are GRAS Additives? The GRAS (Generally Recognized as Safe) system, an FDA designation, was originally created to define a list of common food additives used prior to 1958. For example, sugar and vinegar were some of the original GRAS additives. However, GRAS has since become a loophole that food manufacturers use to avoid FDA …
Let my words, like vegetables, be tender and sweet, for tomorrow I may have to eat them. – Author unknown What if I told you that there was one easy thing that we could do that would absolutely improve our health this year? This one thing is agreed upon by virtually all health and nutrition …
I’ve been wondering if sugar is truly addictive for some time. Secretly I was a little worried about the two-sided battles that would go on in my head when presented with the opportunity to scarf down a handful of chocolate chips from the cabinet. I wondered if it was normal or if I were the …
What’s for dinner? How about a delicious, versatile, and beautiful vegetable so packed with nutrition and fiber that it actually slows the aging process, lowers blood pressure, supports brain health, and fights diabetes and cancer? How about a food that’s cheap and that you – yes even if you think you have a black thumb …
What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun. Ecclesiastes 1:9 I am not under any delusions that I am living anything approaching a minimalist lifestyle. I have way too many full kitchen cabinets, we have too many animals, …
This past weekend, we celebrated my grandmother’s 90th birthday. She is a joyful, feisty woman with a servant’s heart and a contagious laugh – all packed in a 5 foot frame. I absolutely adore her. I have been thinking a lot lately about how different our child-rearing time of life is from those of our …