ENTER TO WIN! Learn to cook healthier meals for your family! Click here to enter to win Real Food for Rookies, a new online class — retail value $120, plus over $60 worth of discount coupons. Don’t miss out! contest ends this SATURDAY Sept 4th at midnight Pacific.For years, I drank 2% milk. Just regular [...]

We are going to Seattle on Christmas Day to spend the holiday with my sister and her family. My sister is my favorite chef in the whole world. Every Christmas she cooks and we don’t just eat — we dine. Truffles, oysters on the half shell, foie gras, caviar. She’ll roast a goose or make [...]

We’re going home to California tomorrow. Before we go, I wanted to share a few photographs I took today of my family’s hometown, Oregon, Ohio. Oregon is just outside of Toledo, just south of Lake Erie. Our family has lived here for generations. My great grandfather and my grandfather were farmers until they got driven [...]

I’m always reading about people eating less meat in order to reduce their carbon footprint. These people say that the most important thing you can do to help the environment is to go vegetarian. For example, Kelly Freston wrote this article last year in the Huffington Post: Vegetarian is the New Prius: Last month, the [...]

Joel Salatin said once that we have an NRA for guns — we should have a group like that to protect our food in this country. I totally agree with that. I’d gotten completely ridiculous with the number of chemicals and genetically modified ingredients in our food supply. (I guess that’s because chemical companies own [...]

Dr. George Heard was a dentist in the early part of the 20th century who first practiced in Alabama, where he had a majority of patients with tooth decay that required fillings and extractions — ultimately resulting in false teeth. He later moved to a small town in Texas where he was stunned to find [...]