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Last fall I read Dr. Weston Price’s book, Nutrition and Physical Degeneration (you can read it online). If you haven’t read it yet, I strongly recommend it. To summarize the work of Dr. Price, here’s a quote from the Weston A. Price Foundation’s brochure: The groups Price studied included sequestered villages in Switzerland, Gaelic communities [...]

There’s a great article in the Washington Post today about Sally Fallon. It turns out that her book (co-authored with nutritionist, Mary Enig) has sold more copies than Rachel Ray’s “30 Minute Meals” and Ina Garten’s, “The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook”. In 12 years, the book [Nourishing Traditions], corrected in a second edition, has sold 310,000 [...]

We had Steak Frites tonight. Wow — was it good! I got the steaks (grass-fed) from Rocky Canyon at the farmer’s market this morning. They were melt-in-your-mouth delicious. I served the meal with Lillet Blanc (a French apertif that tastes like orange) on ice, watered down with a little Pellegrino and a slice of orange. [...]

What a great meal, if I do say so myself. I made the same salad from last night — it was that good. I love the combination of watermelon and red onions. And the ogo balances the whole thing with a salty sea flavor — the way anchovies complete a Caesar salad. Seth loved it [...]

Read an interesting article last night about how eating more good fat helps your body. I was particularly fascinated by this excerpt: On a side note, I worked with a client from Mexico who was here visiting her daughter over the summer. The mother was 85 years old, very strong and healthy, and had not [...]

I was just listening to Michael Pollan on the Everyday Foods show on Martha Stewart’s channel on Sirius radio. I am really loving his book The Omnivore’s Dilemma so I was excited to hear him on the radio. However, I completely disagreed with him! A woman called in and asked about feeding whole milk to [...]

MSNBC reports: Suppose you were forced to live on a diet of red meat and whole milk. A diet that, all told, was at least 60 percent fat — about half of it saturated. If your first thoughts are of statins and stents, you may want to consider the curious case of the Masai, a [...]