Revelry Reverie

So one of my on-going battles is finding bread that doesn’t have high-fructose corn syrup OR soybean oil OR anything that includes “hydrogenated.” I can usually find something at the grocery store (particularly our little corner store), but then I’m limited to whatever was made that week. And sometimes I don’t feel like onion bread…

So I tried two new things today. I’ve never cooked littleneck clams, and I’ve neither cooked nor eaten polenta before. The steamed clams were very easy – much easier than I thought. We bought them from the fish monger (and according to the Monterey Bay Aquarium safe watch list – which I downloaded to my…

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…

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…

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…

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…