Guest post from Dahn Yoga: Nutrient in apples may ...

If you’re working on New Year’s resolutions, you may want to consider taking the phrase “an apple a day” a little more literally.  Or carve out more time to focus on healthful practices, like yoga and meditation. Thanks to Dahn Yoga for contributing this guest post.  Just about everyone is familiar with the old saying “an apple a day keeps the doctor away.” Now, new research suggests...

Quick Primer on Pomegranates

I’ve been purposefully puzzling over pomegranates recently, and here’s why. Aside from the obvious lure of alliterative potential, it struck me a week or so ago that pomegranates fit into the vague but awfully broad category of “things I love, yet don’t take the time to really get to know or understand, for whatever reason”. I’ve decided that list should be attenuated, and I’m...

Five Fab Budget-friendly Foods for Winter

Every year, our team schedules a field trip to the pumpkin patch as close as we can get to Halloween. Every other year it seems, the pumpkins are snowed under. And every time this happens, we all shake our heads in wonder, as if snow in October is outlandishly early. Yet at the same time, it’s no surprise, obviously. This year, we measured a foot of snow on the back deck on Wednesday. Driving in to work was a mess, with...

A Bushel of Apples: Sweet Simplicity

This isn’t a recipe post. Not really, anyway. I just felt compelled to share the moment of rediscovering that Simple is Beautiful. We all know this, but it must be human nature to over complicate things, because even in a time when Simplicity is clearly and splendidly Trendy, we continue to make things more difficult than they need to be at frequent turns. At least, I know I do. My eye-opening recollection came from a...

No GMO Food Fight

IT’S TIME FOR A FOOD FIGHT from NO GMO on Vimeo.   Recently, I missed out on an opportunity to attend a local debate on GMOs, a topic which naturally evokes strong feelings, but about which I realize I’m weak on concrete data and specifics. Ironically, the reason I had to pass on the event was, my blog and writing website were hacked (OK, I can’t flatter myself …Wordpress,  specifically any site...

Quick Post: Berry Pretty, Longer

I had one of those mini-epiphanies the other day, the kind when something so seemingly obvious dawns on you in a new way, washing you over with an overblown sense of your prior obliviousness.  Doing a quick clean of the fridge, it suddenly made sense why berries are packaged in those flimsy clamshell containers with holes; it’s an effort to secure ventilation so the produce inside keeps better until purchased. You...