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2 Months In
It’s been just over two months since I started this experiment, so I suppose it’s time for a review. I started this experiment to see how changing my diet might improve my overall health (including how “good” I feel). Knowing that I ate too little veggies and fish, taking meat and poultry off the menu…
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Dextrose, revisited
Among the many things that I can only understand by trust is chemistry. I will just have to take your word for it. Which leads to this revisiting of an earlier post (which I’d rather not delete or modify, since this is a learning process). I have begun reading Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma. In…
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Joy Thai Cuisine
Joy Thai Cuisine, Williamsport, PA We are on vacation! First “on vacation” meal was at a Thai place in Williamsport Pennsylvania. To be totally fair, I did not expect a lot from Williamsport–not knowing anything about the town–and it was really neat. Anyway, they had a Thai place, so we went. Joy Thai Cuisine was…
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Recent eats
Here are a number of things I’ve made lately to put in my belly. 1. Steamed catfish with lemon on baby spinach. How to: Dust off bamboo steamer, add water to pan, start warming Rinse baby spinach leaves and place in bottom of steamer (don’t put spinach too close to the edge – you want…
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Good Times, Bad Times
And by “bad” times I mean “ok” times. We’ll get the ok stuff out of the way first. I went to an event yesterday that I helped organize. It was part of my alma mater’s reunion festivities – a combined live and silent auction (I didn’t “win” anything, I’m sorry to say). It was a…
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Support the Peace Corps!
This post is waaaay off topic (although I do plan to have more related posts updated soon!). Update: I should mention that Erin’s blog (link further down the post) has plenty of food descriptions! (sort of related!). As I’ve mentioned before, my friend, Erin, is in the Peace Corps, serving in Moldova. She has just…
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Nitrates could cause cancer
Here’s a link to the article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100802/ts_alt_afp/healthusfoodcancermeat The article states that increased nitrate and nitrite consumption ups N-nitroso compounds which cause tumors. It says that people (in this particular study) who consumed the most nitrates and nitrite compounds had a 28 or 29% higher chance of developing bladder cancer. They specifically point out that these…
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EBC
Bob and I went out to dinner Saturday night to celebrate our anniversary. We decided to go to the Ellicottville Brewing Company (EBC, to those in the know), in Ellicottville, NY. We’d had a couple of dates in E’ville before, so it’s something of a favorite. This weekend was also the Jazz Fest; there was…
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It’s Perspective
My friend is home from the Peace Corps for a short while. She’s serving in Moldova (look it up). Amidst her stories of the confusion and growing pains of a young nation trying to distance itself from the not-that-past-tense specter of the Soviet Republic while being an oft-conquored bit of land (about the size of…
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Quick note
It’s been a few days since my last post, but I’ve had good reason! We’ve been doing a lot of work on our house (like replacing the stairs to the second floor – which freaked out the dogs – and putting in a new counter top / butcher block), so I have actually been eating…
Revelry Reverie 