About Me
I am a slave to cheese.
Especially artisanal raw milk cheeses. I could live on good whole grain sourdough bread and cheese. With lots of butter!
Okay, throw in some oysters on the half shell, sushi, and bacon. And ice cream. Let’s not forget about ice cream.
I’ve been eating butter and cheese and foie gras all my life. I don’t think I’ve ever bought a tub of margarine. (OK actually I did buy some Smart Balance once but I never opened it. Just could not bring myself to eat it.) Eggs Benedict has always been my favorite breakfast.
But it was only recently that I learned how healthy these foods are. Cholesterol is good for you!
This blog is about my obsession with healthy food with all the fat, as well as everything connected to food: health, nutrition, raising a family, gardening, travel.
My name is Ann Marie and I’m a mother to my first born girl, Kate. We live with daddy Seth and cat Rita in Los Angeles Las Vegas.
Shortly after I became a mother, I read the book Nutrition and Physical Degeneration by Weston Price and was profoundly affected by it. I want to do everything possible to provide my daughter with the best nutrition possible — to set a course for her lifelong good health.
I’m now co-chapter leader of the Weston A. Price Foundation in Los Angeles Las Vegas, and this blog is a reflection of that.
I also founded the first blog network dedicated to slow and traditional food: Real Food Media. The mission of Real Food Media is to help traditional food bloggers expand their audience, and to help sponsors we believe in reach their customers.
I am also doing what I can to reduce, reuse, recycle, shop local, and support small family farms and sustainable agriculture. I want to do everything I can to preserve the planet for my daughter and her children and her children’s children. Plus it’s more fun to shop at the farmer’s market and hang clothes on a line — you get to soak in the sun while you’re doing laundry.
If you want to learn more about blogging and social media and how to grow your audience online and make money, check out my other blog: Social Media Strategy Blog.
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Hi, I just produced my first documentary, How and Why to Start and Organic School Lunch Program. It’s pretty frightening to think about the future of children on the governments high sugar, zero fat diet. Congratulations on your first baby and your site, if you’re interested in my doc, let me know, it also is about supporting local (organic) farms and cutting down on consumption of pesticides!
BTW, I was born in Paris! You have good taste, pun intended.
Vanessa
Of course you know about Joel Salatin’s work, but his talk at the last WAPF conference is persuasive that school food actually can be organic:
http://www.westonaprice.org/farm-a-ranch/2087-the-politics-of-food.html
Meanwhile, as parents and grandparents, we want to see practical ways to cope with Peak Oil, Climate Change, and economic instability. You will be glad to hear about a viral, self-organizing, radically optimistic way to tackle these big issues right where you are and with the people you know. See:
http://www.ted.com/talks/rob_hopkins_transition_to_a_world_without_oil.html
As for improving school food, that has been my prime goal for 10 years and, since organic and local foods won’t happen tomorrow, two quick fixes will show all the doubting Thomases what gains are possible: (1) adding fish oil powder to the current foods served in schools (even baked goods), and (2) telling parents about vitamin D:
Go to GoodSchoolFood.org and click on “Letter to Parents” under Vitamin D (left margin).
The first item, adding microencapsulated fish oil to school foods, does not reach the high standards of Weston Price Foundation members, who would prefer that children eat actual sea food or pastured eggs, fowl, and beef, but it is realistic and affordable, for about 3.5 cents a child could get their 800 mg a day of DHA/EPA (which costs Whole Foods shoppers about $2 a day).
Hi Ann,
This is Suman from newwaphb group. I really love your site and the photos you have put up. Me and my husband are from India and we read NPD about 3 yrs back, and since then we have tried our best to follow his principles. We eat pastured eggs daily, consume raw milk, eat plenty of butter and ghee, coconut oil, CLO, stone-ground whole grain kamut flour, brown rice etc. And we are very happy. Just like you, we are keen to give our daughter the best possible start we can.
We also purchase organic fruits, vegetables, use only recycled paper, use natural clothing and shop at the farmer’s markets.
You have so many recipes, it’s amazing.
Happy blogging !
Suman.
Hi, Suman, I have appreciated getting to know you and reading your posts on newwaphb.
I plan to make a recipe archive on this site — so the recipes are easier to find!
Take care and keep me posted on your progress.
Ann Marie
Hi. I “know” you from the Discussing NT list. I’m in Chicagoland. Nice to read your water kefir info, as I’m demoing it soon for a noobie WAP group here in the suburbs. Thanks!
Hi, Nicole!
Nice to “see” you! Will you be going to the WAPF conference this year since it’s in Chicago? I will be going!
Ann Marie
Ann Marie! I found this site somehow, independently, and then I saw you on the Discussing Nourishing Traditions yahoo group also. I love your blog and what you contribute to the DiscussingNT group. Thanks.
Hi, Laura! Thank you for the compliment. I really appreciate it!
Hi Ann Marie,
I just found out your blog this afternoon and I think it is really awesome!! I’m glad to discover nice and healthy recipes and it’s a pleasure to read so much interesting news about (organic) food. You made me discover coconut flour, which is no very much used in Europe. Congrats for your blog!!
you are fab! will you marry us and pack our lunches?
I was wondering when you started giving your daughter raw oysters? My youngest son just turned 1 and I wanted him to start eating them! Thanks, Khristyna
Khristyna,
I started letting her suck on the shells when she was just over a year.
We go almost every week to get them at the farmer’s market, so she always sees Mommy eating (and loving) raw oysters.
At first she did not want the oysters, but eventually she became interested in eating them. Now, at 2 years, she will easily put back 6 raw oysters at a sitting!
Hi Ann,
I love cheese too! Unfortunately, my intestines have a much different opinion of it and I don’t eat dairy anymore. I’ve been a huge fan of WAPF for several years and it’s always exciting to find other bloggers who promote it’s philosophies. I’m happy I found your blog and look forward to reading more of it in the future.
Hi, Vin,
Just subscribed to your blog — I checked it out and I love it! I added you as a friend on Facebook, too.
Have you ever tried raw dairy? Many people with lactose intolerance find that they can digest raw dairy products very easily.
If that doesn’t work for you, another thing you can try is a gut-healing protocol along the lines of the GAPS diet. Dr. Campbell-McBride says most dairy intolerance is reversable.
I did something similar when I was in my 20s and had developed a wheat intolerance. It took a couple of years to fully recover but after that I could eat anything with no symptoms.
Hi, I am 20 years old and read weston price’s book recently and was so happy to stumble upon your blog. After being told at 17 that I had systemic candida, I am finally recovering and am blessed that even through the struggle it has opened my eyes and educated me in health and life. It is so great that you and many others put in the time to share recipes and information for all of us who love receiving it. It’s tremendous dedication, and I thank you. The few recipes I’ve tried so far and wonderful. It’s inspiring for me to know that even though I personally don’t know them, so many people have chosen this way of living.
Lauren
Lauren,
I know this is an old comment but what medical tests did you get to reach your diagnosis? I’ve been struggling with my health for a few years now (after many tests and nothing found), and I’ve always suspected candida as an issue. But most traditional doctors tend to write it off as something that only afflicts HIV patients.
Any advice would be helpful
Cheers,
Marlee
Hi Ann Marie.
I just found your site and am enjoying it very much! So great to find other sane voices in this crazy world. I read NT a few years back and was so relieved to find something that finally made sense! I’ve been working since that time to grow most of our own food or source it locally and met some great people in the process.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts. i know I’ll be stopping by again soon.
Laurie
Just saw your website. I’m a big Weston Price fan too. Keep up the good work!
Do you have a post with all your Los Angeles Food resources? I live in LA, too, and would love to know where you purchase all your stuff, especially the frugal finds.
Thanks!
Hi, AnnMarie,
I found your site while searching for coconut flour recipes. We eat mostly natural, real foods at our house and have been doing so for years. I am amazed at how many parents and people in general are still so ignorant about food, and appreciate sites like yours to help educate and inspire others. We have ducks and eat their eggs; try duck eggs if you can find them, they are so much better than chicken eggs! If you would like to see pictures of my daughter’s ducklings, there are some posted on my Facebook page. Cheryl Campbell
Hi I am a hunter and a meat eater. But to read that you eat fois gras is absoutely
absurd and I would not be telling people that I eat that. The stuff is outlawed around the world you should be ashamed of yourself.
Hi, Mitch,
Thanks for sharing your opinion. If I believed that the foie gras production hurt the birds in any way, I would not eat it.
I’m sorry that you think I should be ashamed. I don’t wish that on anyone.
Jean, I just posted a Resources page:
http://www.cheeseslave.com/resources
There are some geo-targeted listings on that page, with more to come soon. What that means is you will see listings of local companies and farms — but only if you are looking at the page in that location.
Great domain name, cool blog
but, no easily identifiable social media links 
Hi Ann Marie,
Great site. Will be back and looking forward, now, to perusing your recipes section. Started out the year on Atkins diet and then moved over to Fat Flush Plan. I’ve missed cheese so much that I’ve just HAD to have some. Still feel fine… and haven’t put the 35# back on… yippee!
Lisa
Hi Anne Marie,
I love your website.
I appreciate your time, enthusiasm and the effort involved in getting your message and ideas out there.
Always enjoy reading your material.
Photos too
I live down in New Zealand and have established here a Chapter for the Weston Price Foundation and like you value Real food and reliable infomation.
Many Thanks,
Best Always,
Kieran
Dear Ann Marie,
jI am so happy to have run across you. I live in LA too (Echo Park)!
My husband is a chiropractor and we are both Weston Price members. Is Becky still a chapter leader for Silverlake?
The last year I have worked very hard to get many of the Weston Price principles into our diet. (My husband did a course put on by the Price Pottenger Foundation years ago).
Do you hold any meetings? (Please e-mail me).
Debbie Gale
Dear Ann,
I stumbled upon your website as I was trying to google on the benefits of raw egg yolks which I just started incorporating in my daughter’s raw milk. I had been reading a lot about Nourishing Traditions and am very interested in incorporating a MORE NATURAL WHOLE FOODS diet to my family esp my daughter who is is in the autism spectrum (very mild). I hope we are not too late in nourishing her the right way-she’s 8-and am stil excited in seeing progress even in baby steps.
Thanks,
Daisy
Great web site.
I struggled for years with the health and nutrition commotion. the doctors vs the naturalist. An what is the real truth.
My mom was into Shaclee or how ever you spell it when I was a kid. Then she went on to other health food companies. On day she was telling me about some health issues and I was doing my best to not listen. The next day in my college chemistry class, the teacher started teaching the exact thing.
I learned a lot more chemistry and got a job in a vitamin manufacturing plant.
I learned the legally, they can put filler in capsules and say a 500 mg capsule of calcium, but really only have 250 mg of actual calcium.
The company I worked for insisted on customers going up one capsule size to get the full 500 of calcium as stated on the bottle.
Years past and I now run a lava rock mine. But I wanted to make a collection of nutritional products that I used for my family. So I started a web site http://www.healthshop101.com to keep a selection of products I needed.
I find that there is a lot of tricks and false advertising in health. the colloidal minerals , nano minerals and many new names that they create to trick people int thinking that their “new product is more advanced that the last one.
Now I can use that basic chemistry to dispel myths about health. I pass that info on to others @ healthshop101. No, I am not a doctor, but who says they know everything. Everything they know is contained on one CD. and when they leave you in their office, that is when they go to the computer to look up your symptoms any way.
I think that natural is best. We have a large garden in the back yard and try to eat as much as possible from it. Fresh always taste better any way.
Jason Brunson
Healthshop101
Hi. Your site looks great. I can’t wait to dive into it but I am leaving early morning for a vacation for a week! So I will get to it when I return.
I read through some of the comments here and noticed one about Foie gras. I didn’t know what that was so I googled it. I wanted to see what Mitch Green was talking about.
While I found Mitch’s comment rude to you in tone (as if you were 3 years old, and even then… well, I raised two boys into good men and I never once told them that they should feel “ashamed” of themselves), I did find some rather disturbing information on the subject of how foie gras is made. I find it incredibly cruel, as I find the process in raising veal cruel. I will included the link below.
I want to just say that I am not a vegetarian or animal rights activist. And, just because I don’t care for organ meats or oysters, etc., doesn’t mean I think there’s a thing wrong with others eating them. I am a live and let live person overall.
I am, however, not in favor of animal torture, for any reason. Some people should be tortured, yes… animals, no. (I’m only half-joking about the people).
So, please post this link about foie gras for others to be informed.
And to Mitch… perhaps she didn’t know about the process? I don’t know. But, I do love that you are seemingly a caring hunter… hunt for food but care about the animal’s treatment. I admire that. Thank you!
And here’s that link for foie gras:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foie_gras
Lisa Marie,
I just wanted to let you and everyone else know that foie gras is not produced in the way that has been outlawed in many countries. Please do your research on the subject! All I had to do was google it click on a link and read a story about someone who actually went to a farm in the US where they DO NOT torture their ducks. It is posted on villagevoice: http://www.villagevoice.com/2009-02-18/news/is-foie-gras-torture/1
Wikipedia can’t be used for everything!
Aside that, I just wanted to thank you Ann for your awesome website! I first found it looking up info about Kefir and now I’m reading everything on it! I totally agree with almost everything on the Weston A. Price website, and am now realizing all the good things about raw milk and butter, and FAT!
Keep it up!
I know this is an old comment but I wanted to add my two cents for anyone who comes along and reads the comments on this About page. If you don’t like something on Wikipedia and you have a SOURCE that you can use to clean up the article and add extra information, then do it. Wikipedia is not the World Book Encyclopedia–if something is not correct, then correct it!
The one obstacle you might run into is if there is an editor for that topic category who is dogmatic about the subject, then you might run into a problem but if not, a lot of times the editing will stand.
It’s true that NO encyclopedia should be treated as a primary source, not even Brittanica. But I get annoyed with the way people treat Wikipedia as both completely untrustworthy and carved-in-stone permanent. The very nature of a wiki is that anyone can change it. So change it if something is wrong.
Thanks Lisa Marie & Janelle
I also posted this article recently: Chef Dan Barber Brings Sustainable, Humane Foie Gras to America
By the way, geese do not have a gag reflex. As long as they know who’s feeding them, even being intensively fed for the purposes of producing foie gras is not traumatic to them.
I read an account from the author of the book Fat where the foie gras geese ran up to their farmer at feeding time even though he was funneling grain down their throats. If you couldn’t gag, do you think being fed that way would bother you?
Yes, my mother saw the same thing when she visited a goose farm in France. The geese ran and lined up for their feeding.
I love your site, I have been following WPF for about 8 years but I have not really practiced it…. it comes it goes, I do get raw milk and buy local beef and pork, all my meat I get locally raised, chicken too.
I feel like I just don’t have the time to figure it all out every week… I know planning ahead is crucial, this is why I just signed up for your 1 year menu….
I’m excited about it, all the thinking is done for me
Thanks,
Erin
Hi, Erin!
I’m so excited to have you on the menu mail program. You’ll be getting the first batch or recipes this morning!
The menu mailer is a HUGE time saver. Well, not for me, LOL! But for subscribers.
I’m going to plan a trip to go wine tasting up in Oregon sometime soon — we should plan a get-together with all the local Oregonians! (Is that how you spell that?)
wow! I love you’re website. that is so cool you are into being healthy and stuff.
Ann Marie,
Your site is really cool and my son, Matt Stone, at: 180degreehealth, was telling me tonight all about it. He is a big fan and I can see why, as you see eye to eye on many things. We just celebrated his birthday today in Colorado (Feb. 6th).
Just wanted to let you know how refreshing your material is and how stimulating too…
Keep up the good work and best of luck to you and your family. I know you’re on the right track, because I’m a living example of how healthy it is to eat real foods. I’m almost 66 and extremely healthy, blood pressure 110/60, blood chemistry is perfect, pulse rate 50, low cholesterol (even though I eat eggs and have half and half every day) and no medications, not even aspirin, strong and great endurance(work 12 hours days a lot), and everything works well, including my mind. I almost feel like I’m cheating the system – I don’t even have aches or pains, I mean none!
Best wishes and good luck,
Ron
Dear Ron,
Thank you so much for your kind words. How lucky you are to have a son like Matt. I’m looking forward to having him on my podcast show. Please tell him Happy Birthday!
And how lucky he is to have a father like you who is so open-minded. I just found out my mother was put on a statin drug last fall. Long sigh. I sent her a list of the dangers — hopefully she will get off of the thing.
Ann Marie
Hello -
Just want to congratulate on what you are doing….Our company http://www.utuscany.com is supporting local and traditional food and wine from my Italian region.
Also I will be a dad of a girl very soon…..your daughter is adorable!
Ciao!!!
Gianni
Just checking in, I know we follow each other on Twitter but I hadn’t stopped by your blog….didn’t realize you had one until Jimmy Moore posted your upcoming interview. Anyway looks like a lot of the kind of stuff I like to read so you’ll see me poking around here a bit this weekend I suspect! Best-
Hello!
I’ve been browsing this blog for about a week now and I have to say you are awesome! I recently became an ex-vegan after browsing the Weston A Price website and doing a little research of my own. Despite my research, I was very skeptical about butter. In my mind dairy= bad, evil, fattening, etc. But this blog persuaded me to try butter (Kerrygold from Trader Joe’s, yum) and I am positively hooked! I’ve been using it for the past few days and I feel great. I actually feel full at meals and my previously dissipated appetite has at last returned. And best of all, I enjoy eating now. I’ve hated food all my life (gasp), but now I can’t wait to get in the kitchen and whip something up. So I just wanted to say thank you for your blog and keep up the great work!
Happy eating!
Susan
I thought I was reading about me! Love cheese, bacon, butter, and everything else you mentioned! I believe in Sustainable Gardening One Planter at a time, buying local, farmers market…Wow. Glad I stumbled upon your blog! Awesome!
Atkins Diet have helped me a lot to maintain a very good physique. My mom is also on an Atkins Diet. -
Hi!
I am searching everywhere if there is a GAPS diet for babies… And what it is.
My breastfed baby has a leaky gut that is causing eczema and rashes from pretty much all food. She gets hives from dairy. So eventhough she’s 8 months old she still eats only breast milk, and I’m on a strict diet because she reacts to food I eat too.
Any help…. Advice would be greatly appreciated!!
Thank you!!!
I am very new to eating natural. It is my 2nd day, i just moved to napa ca, and can easily find all of the food. I am shocked that my olive oil did not cloud up or become solid after being in the frig. over night……..being of italian decent my mother only cooked veggies from the produce market, meat from the meat market, and milk was delivered..in glass bottles..she never went into a super market….i don’t know if they were organic but we rarely got sick……and oh she also gave us a tablespoon of cod liver oil everyday…….she called it fishes in the brook……….I just turned 67 and want to start living young……i have stomach issues ……..and want to get back to the european diet i grew up on…….thank-you
Thank you, thank you, thank you! I stumbled across your site looking for real, homemade buttermilk ranch dressing, since i have been making my own butter. Who knew I’d find another successfully helpful tool in furthering my “self-taught education”…
how do i unsubscribe to zillions of contest entry in my email?
I found your blog looking for a recipe for sprouted whole wheat crackers. After printing the recipe, which I will use to make a healthier cheesecake for my son’s birthday dinner, I read this “About Me” page, which then took me to the Amazon.com “LOOK INSIDE” feature for the book Nutrition and Physical Degeneration by Weston A. Price, which I had heard about previously on a forum and knew would be of interest to me. After taking notes from the two Forewards from the book, I thought to myself that I needed to share the info about the book, and your blog, on Facebook, which I did.
Now I know I need to keep reading your blog.
Thank you so much for your contribution to making this a better world!!
OK – we could be best friends (not in a creepy way). You just found me on Twitter (BigGreenHead) and your name Cheeseslave cracked me up! I can’t wait to read up on why I can finally eat real food. two things, I have a blog 52 Ways to Go Green, Get Lean, or Die Trying! The green part is a cinch, the lean….not so much! Next, I want to invite you to share on our site. We welcome guest blogs.
Thanks! Love it!
Hi Anne Marie
Just subscribed to your newsletter. Wanted to say well done for standing up for what is right .
Just baked my first ever muffin. It was the one with blueberries and coconut flour. So as well as being my first ever muffin it was my first ever coconut flour attempt at anything. My hubby of 21 years nearly had a heart attack when I produced the finished result. It looked like a muffin (not a biscuit) tasted like a muffin (not a random bit of baked stuff) and smothered in organic butter tasted great was so much better than “politely acceptable’ which is what he is used to…….he he Thanks
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I don’t trade links but I will have our Ad Sales Director call you.
Ann Marie
Of course love your blog, but I REALLY like your green crocs that you are wearing in your pictures above. VERY COOL!
Why wear anything else when your feet can be so crazy comfortable in crocs???!!
Thank you, Cathy!
I totally agree!
I wore my green ones out but I’m on the look out for some bright orange ones now!
Um, Weston Price is a dentist. ‘Nuff said on that one.
Um, Concerned Dairy Scientist (???) Nuff said on that one!
Milk is full of sugar, fat and protein. All the more perfect for bacteria to thrive. Like the bacteria that cause tuberculosis, or Brucella and E. coli.
I’m all for healthy living and sustainable agriculture (yay for organic produce and local ag!), but I think it’s stupid to adhere to principles that have been debunked by so much evidence. It’s the 21st century, folks. We should know better.
oh, and that guy that cheeseslave buts her oysters from has been shut down
repeatedly over the past few years because cholera was found in the oysters (yeah, I know LA, and I know the farmers markets).
I’ve been to the Carson, CA farmers market but not the one in LA. Is there a fish market in LA? Next time I visit I would like to go there for some oysters.
The farmer we buy raw milk from, here in Northern VA, is a friend and we trust him. A few weeks ago, early on a Saturday morning, I was picking up the milk and met the Cow, Snowbell, who gives us our weekly gallon… She was quite amiable and didn’t mind being petted as she was being milked.
The point is, there needs to be a certain amount of trust between the producer and consumer. We know where our milk comes from, we know the cow, we know Mr. A, the owner, our kids play with their kids, and we see his family in church on Sundays. Of course there are some dangers with raw milk (if you don’t know where it is coming from), but there are more dangers in drinking a watered down, pasteurized, homogenized, factory assimilation of so-called milk.
“Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.” G.K. Chesterton
What is our vision, as traditionalist foodies, for our world and how has that vision been altered by the food industry? … Oh sorry, were we talking about milk?
@The Living Ghost of Louis Pasteur
What evidence? Cite your sources.
And by the way, it’s pretty lame to post using an anonymous name and fake email address.
@Dennis
“Um, Concerned Dairy Scientist (???) Nuff said on that one!”
LOL!
so glad to have found your site! You look like a very young Meg Ryan in the pics above, and your daughter is precious! Its always nice to find other moms with similar views! I’m bookmarking your site.
Hi, not a new Mom. I am an old Mom. But I have decided to revamp the way my husband and I eat. I decided in January that I was sick to death of feeling like crap even though I am a diabetic. I started low carb eating and discovered a new world. After 3 months, my blood work was fabulous and my nurse practioner called me a rock star but I still didn’t feel great despite losing 30 lbs. Then my health food store owner told me about Eat Fat, Lose Fat by Dr. Enig with Sally Fallon. We just started this newer eating system a few weeks ago and while it is a bit overwhelming at first, I finally am starting to feel better. Because of my diabetes, I still don’t eat bananas and substitute strawberries instead, but I am taking 3 Tablespoons of coconut oil every day and starting cod liver oil. I am really anticipating learning more from you and other websites. Thank you for what you do.
Congratulations, Molly! That’s awesome!
A funny blog from “Daily Dose” (William Campbell Douglass II, M.D.)
Feds target Amish in bizarre sting operation
It’s the roughest, toughest gang of outlaws you’ve ever seen — a band of bearded renegades so dangerous that a federal agency needed help from TWO law enforcement departments during a recent raid.
The Amish must be stopped!
These buggy-driving menaces represent such a threat to the American Way of Life that the feds put one of them in the crosshairs of an 18-month sting operation.
But this wasn’t about weapons, drugs or counterfeit money — it was about RAW MILK.
This thriller begins with brave FDA agents putting their lives on the line by infiltrating another group of known radicals: Washington, D.C.-area families that enjoy farm-fresh milk and other organic goods.
These families know that raw milk is superior in every way to Big Dairy’s watered-down swill and that it can even cure everything from asthma to autism. But since it’s illegal to buy raw milk in Maryland, where most of these families live, they were forced to look elsewhere.
That’s when they joined together to form a cooperative to buy a stake in Dan Allgyer’s Pennsylvania farm. It’s a way of skirting the law — you’re not “buying” the milk if you already own the farm.
Little did they know there were traitors in their midst: Undercover FDA agents using assumed names joined the club and attended gatherings in members’ homes… where they secretly gathered evidence to use against Allgyer.
And when the Amish farmer ultimately delivered his contraband, the agents turned into Elliot Ness and the Untouchables, launching an armed predawn raid on his Pennsylvania farm with the help of U.S. marshals and state police.
All that was missing was a team of Navy SEALS!
Naturally, there’s no real evidence against Allgyer. After a year and a half undercover, the feds can’t point to a single sick customer or a single case of contaminated milk.
The only supposed crime Allgyer committed was “selling” his milk across state lines — but since the cooperative is technically an owner and not a customer, even that argument is thinner than pasteurized milk.
Dear Anna,
I just read you “about you” and honey I think I have fallen in love with you. hahah NO worries I have been married for 27 years and very happily but this is just up my street. I started my life after marriage graduating from Le Cordon Bleu when I got sick with cancer I went whole green raw crazy but then my body rebelled I could have eaten sticks of butter and I did it rounds of brie… hee hee.. You cannot take brie from a girl what is the point in living. Now I am back just eating organic, we don’t eat alot of grains but we do eat range fed meets and raw milk, and butter, sometimes non raw butter and milk. And we have not been more well or healthy. Not only that we are happy. I am not a girl that can live without a good eggs benedict or floating islands for to long. I did it though for three straight years.. My hell. The eigth level. I have often heard about your site from my friend Debbie Young who I adore and think is brilliant. I look forward to getting to know you better. We did a nutritional boot camp on BasicMissions a few months ago then we did a lenten boot camp and Now we are just writing for summer. Food is what is up for the next six weeks after Labor Day. I love working with food and the Goop crew and I just took a tour of New Orleans which is where I grew up and I swear I have to diet before doing that again. Well off to get things in place for our dinner. Tonight stuffed pork loin with cherry and pistachio sauce and a nice jasmine rice and a lovely kale salad. With a beautiful pear pie with yep lard crust.. I love lard in crust. Divine. Wishing you the best and so glad I finally made it over. I will be a regular. Many Blessings. And Keep Up the Cheese. Callie
I found your blog from a comment on another blog I just came across – Im loving this new way of finding interesting blogs! I know Im going to love this one, Im new to the whole healthy life, good food thing.
Just wanted to say hello!
Hello! Thanks for stopping by!
Great to learn a little more about you. BTW, your daughter is such a cutie – but you knew that already. Thanks for all you do. You are a great encouragement.
I am having a cup of bone broth this evening
Just smiling ear to ear looking at you and your moody baby, all normal and everything. It’s so damn hard to go against the grain, but your nutrition conclusion is the same as mine, and I believe that of Joel Salatin. Keep it up, and thanks.
Thank you!
It’s great to discover your blog. Thank you for the pickle recipe. My kids love them. Most importantly my son, who is a picky eater.
Hi Ann Marie,
I stumbled upon your website and so glad I did! I saw that you posted a comment about beating candida. After reading so many negative and not uplifting things on the internet about people suffering from candida, I was so inspired to see that you beat it and and are now eating amazing and nutritious foods! Have you blogged about this in any more detail? Are there any sites that you can point me to to help with my candida battle? There is plenty of info out there, but I’m looking for positive success stories like yours. I”m really inspired and want to hear more!
Thanks!
Hi Ann Marie, can you recommend cookware because I read so much contradictory information! I tried to find something in your archives but no luck so far. What is best? Stainless steel, cast iron… ?
Many thanks!
Vida
Hi Ann Marie,
I am wanting to purchase a Green Egg grill for cooking. I use mostly grass fed meat, but I am concerned about the link between barbecue and cancer. This grill will cook slow and low as low as 250. I would like to grill both meat and veggies. It also require a different type of charcoal. This is a very social thing we do in Texas and it is convenient to put a brisket on in the evening to have ready for the next day. What are your feelings about grilling?
Thank you,
Shirley
I Love this site !! I have it booked marked, My husband and I are both very Healthy and we eat this way
all the best to you and your family.
Patti Erickson
Milwaukee WI
Hi Marie do you get mail from Millions against Monsanto ? that’s the invisible devil that we are all fighting .
Unless we unite and understand about our Constitutional Rights and how to apply them we don’t have any Rights .
You have a very important gentlemen there in L A his name is Richard I Fine .
Here is a link on Richard .http://www.search-results.com/web?l=dis&o=100000052&q=Richard+I+fine&atb=sysid%3D406%3Auid%3Df7cb1e519adb3aa7%3Auc%3D1305075326%3Aq%3DRichard+I+fine%3Asrc%3Dcrb%3Ao%3D100000052
Here is a video that you should please watch with your friends and family .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hITYIT02rA lethal injection the story of vaccination
Well I have garden greens all year round and share Natural Heirloom seeds I keep Mason Bees , and I dont use one ounce of chem. on my garden plants .also we have lots of Natural glacier water and its green all year round . Thank You Joe L’Amarca
I have a lot of seeds if you know anyone that wants some for free , they can reach me at 253-565-4551
http://www.humet.com/acatalog/ToxicMetals.pdf
I wondered if you have ever read this article by Kaayla T. Daniel. She suggests this as an explanation for why people do not get healthy even though they are on a nutritions diet. I’m wondering if this could explain my insomnia! Maybe pregnancy deposits heavy metals in new locations that suddenly start causing us problems?
Thank you! I am forever altering recipes to be more in line with Weston Price and Nourishing Traditions. Now I can look at your site first, to see if you already have done that work!
I found you through my good friend Lisa_C who reads your blog often. I’m loving your blog too. Isnt amazing how much more important nutrition is when you are a Mama?
Thanks for sharing!!
http://www.dailypaul.com/39096/fema-coffins-in-georgia
read about camp fema and you decide where you find all the food that you like
Hello wondering if you did Gaps diet while pregnant and experianced weight loss while pregnant or weight gain and also if you did the diet while pregnant ,, what were the results after pregnancy ?
Ann Marie-
It was a pleasure connecting today & discovering our mutual love for “Magnesia!”
I would welcome a collaborative effort, but would esp appreciate some “social networking” coaching! I’m an absolute stone there& would be willing to trade ares of expertise, or otherwise.
Enjoy the balance of your stay in Dallas & I’ll look forward to our chat next week…
Cheers,
Morley
“Mg Man!”
847.922.8061 (M)
Hi. I found your blog while reading a handout from a sourdough bread vendor from the santa monica farmers market.
When I looked up cheeseslave, I found a great article on bone broth and gluten intolerance. I already knew about my struggles with gluten and other food sensitivities but I was not aware of the value of bone broth. After a bit of research I found restaurants in koreatown LA that serve sul lung tang, a beef broth soup made from ox bones. i go there several times a week now to eat soup. it’s been amazing. if you have an opportunity to go there i recommend e moon oak on western and olympic.
Hi AnnMarie,
I am interested in finding out about the Weston A. Price Foundation chapter meetings. I live in Los Angeles also.
Thanks Deirdre
GOOD MORNING ANN MARIE….I so enjoy your page, I have always been interested in organic grown, and glad to see that there is more and more of an interest by young people like you. You so remind me of myself back in the early 50′s when I grow my own veg. when to the farmer to get raw milk, and at that time read Adel Davis. There were a few Health Food stores around, although we had to travel to a big city to fine them. By the 60′s there were many smaller shops, however, they were the kind that you could get high in just from the secondary smoke by the time you finished shopping. Today we have a great health food store right here in Easton, Pa, and one of the greatest small farmers markets in the country…. Thank you for a great and very interest site.
Kate is ADORABLE!! Enjoy. They grow-up before you know it!
My family is in love with cheese, too! : )
You guys rock. I’m 75 years old and wish I knew what I know now 50 years ago.
Ray
It was a surprise to me to be clicking through fb and seeing my childrens faces on a story!! Love the attention you brought to the issue of vaccine damage.
Aww thanks Marlene. I wanted to email and ask everyone for permission but there were so many.
God bless you and your children.
Hi Ann Marie
Surprised you live in Las Vegas my wife and I live out in Henderson Of Course!
Since we are from the 20′s and farm kids we know about how you should eat from the garden, drink that milk straight from the cow and that fresh fruit picked right off the tree. What a change in life style we have lived through. Had to laugh when you said garden. Livin’ with these city folk have to keep those raised beds hid in the back yard. Sure couldn’t hang your clothes outside, wouldn’t look nice. Think the thing that keeps us going is keeping the dream of getting back to that old time life style. Hang in there you just might make a difference. Billy & June
i am twenty four and my dad raised four children alone since we were
7 4 2 and three days old
we are alone and i have lost two sisters now
its just me and my dad and brother
we love raw milk and butter and eating healthy
we like farming and making animals happy
yes a cow can actually be happy and run and kick and come so happy to see you
when she is raised from a calf with love
she can be JUST as friendly as a dog she can just push alot harder
lol so you have to be careful
my family has gone to micheals farm and we met him and talked with him
we want to farm and have found a place for 130 thouand
and are fundraising and asking people to help
my dad is fourty five my brother is sixteen
we want the farm to be open all the time to provide people with friendship
good food and learning opportunities
my dad grew up farming and we are a FARMILY
we have the chance to help people and stay together
and work hard having a farm
and we are asking for human beings all over
to help us GET IT
even if that means someone else can buy it
and we can work for them FOR TEN YEARS FOR FREE
and just live in the old house
we will manage the farm
and grow the five acer gardens
Alisha Hillman
Twitter Singledad1234
i want to keep my family together
I dont want to lose my dad and brother and be homeless
Hi there!
I am so happy that I “happened” upon your website. We have so much in common. I actually found your blog upon doing a search to see if anyone else naturally balances their hormones like I do (and as I have helped several of my nutrition clients do). I am so impressed by this resource!
I am a new mom too and hope I can eventually transform my blog (slnhealthytidbits.blogspot.com)into as wonderful as a resource as yours.
Is this blog your “job?” I currently have a day job as a marketing director for a large health food store and its sister company, which is a national supplement company (needs.com) and I do my nutritional counseling “on the side” as I have been doing for a decade!
Again, thanks so much for doing what you do…I will be referring my clients to this blog for sure!
Hi Cheeseslave
We are on GAPS now for three or four months. Your website has been most helpful! I’m seeing a new me emerging from this change in lifestyle, diet. I am pretty excited when I see others combining work with what they love, family and feeding families. It gives me hope that I can stop punching a clock for work and start letting people come to me for help and advice. i am an RN and a lactation consultant and now GAPS newbie wannabe cook. I’m looking to combine my current career with my new found love, cooking and preparing the best food I can, into a sustainable living for myself and family.
Thanks for your website. It’s a thing of beauty
Katy Mc
Hi! I have wanted to eat a more organic based gluten free diet for some time now. I have fought the battle of the bulge since age 12. I ran across Jon Gabriel’s method for weight loss last year and have lost 56lbs so far. He encourages “live” foods, and organic/grass fed/free range as much as humanly possible. It is not just about the foods that we eat but the vitality of the foods that will enable our bodies to glean the nutrients that it needs from the foods that we eat. I wanted to pass his method along to you so that you could share his method with other readers/friends that you know who are struggling with weight issues. He deals primarily with the mind-body connection and not just calories in/calories out. I am at a disadvantage though. I drive a truck for a living (over the road) and only have access to very few organic fruits and veggies. It is also nigh on impossible to find grass fed beef/free range chicken that I can cook in my crock pot. So I will continue to read everything I can find on organic cooking/gluten free baking etc and dream of the day when I can have my very own organic live food kitchen.
Blessings to you!
Trish
Love your blog- it is awesome and inspiring! PS- you have awesome cheeks!
just cruising on the internet investigating natto, and it led me to you
i just got some natto samples, and i really prefer the natto miso, which i cant seem to find
i read about weston price a long long time ago
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