Archives for February 2011

Another American classic: Pork & Beans. These pork and beans are made in a crockpot, which makes it so easy.
Since we’re making ours with chicken stock, this recipe for pork and beans is much more nutrient-dense than what you’d normally get.

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I’ve been dreaming of going to Animal Restaurant here in Los Angeles for almost a year now. Ever since I read the review in The New Yorker magazine.

My husband made my dreams come true this Valentine’s Day.

Now, maybe eating calf’s brains and pig’s ears may not be your idea of romantic.

But you know what they say: the way to someone’s heart is through the stomach. And pig’s ears in my stomach makes my heart go all fluttery.

Is recovery from autism possible? Watch these astounding before and after videos of a child on the autism spectrum who is recovering.

Sam is a 5-year-old boy who is on the autistic spectrum. After just 3 months on the GAPS Diet, Sam’s recovery is simply amazing. When I saw these videos, I cried.

The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability by Lierre Kieth is one of the best books I’ve read in at least a decade. Maybe two.

This book is right up there with Malcolm Gladwell’s books. It is as groundbreaking to food and health as The Tipping Point was (and still is) to marketing.

In Hollywood-ese, The Vegetarian Myth is Michael Pollan’s meets Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass. Well-researched, world-changing, and at the same time, gorgeously written and profound.