CHEESESLAVE

If you’re like me, you’re not so crazy about Halloween. I love the costumes and the dressing up, but I hate the idea of my 2-year-old filling up on high fructose corn syrup, cottonseed oil and soy lecithin. Honestly, it wouldn’t bother me quite as much if candy were made of refined sugar and real [...]

This is primarily a food blog, extolling my love of cheese, raw milk, butter, and so on. But it is also fundamentally a blog about health and nutrition. Which is why I’m writing this post. I get so excited about the power of food to heal, I just have to share when I see something [...]

Welcome to Real Food Wednesday!
I’m actually on time with this for the first time — maybe ever! It’s because I’m in New York — on Eastern Standard Time.

This week Kelly the Kitchen Kop tries her first Julia Child recipe: Mushroom Soup. And I share a post about Chef Dan Barber’s mission to bring humane, sustainable [...]

Every time I post about foie gras, I get hate mail. Get ready to comment, because here we go again.

Foie gras is one of the most delicious foods on the planet. Not only that, it’s one of the most nutrient-dense foods, full of fat soluble activators including vitamins A, D, E, and K that protect us from all manner of degenerative disease. It’s also a very traditional food that has been around for thousands of years (can you say Egyptians?).

The other day, we spent the afternoon at the Museum of Natural History in New York City. We went to look at the dinosaurs, which was fascinating. I was even more interested in the skeletons of early humans and the exhibits of indigenous peoples. I only had my iPhone camera with me, but I thought [...]