Photo of the last huge bowl of corn masa I'll ever eat. When you open a newspaper or find a new news website, what category is your favorite? What do you like to turn to first? Some say they're most interested in sports or world news or politics. You know what my...
This is what I'm studying this weekend: The Dark Side of Wheat. It details evidence that people with celiac's disease, which causes the inability to digest wheat, are not the only ones who are harmed by eating wheat. According to the author, wheat harms everyone...
The March 2012 issue of Harper's Magazine contains this article "Starving Your Way to Vigor: The Benefits of an Empty Stomach." Since you can't access the online article without paying, I'll summarize. The author, Steve Hendricks speaks from the experience of having...
The challenge: from 26 February to 4 March I'm cutting out all wheat and processed sweets. These foods give me stomach aches and keep me awake at night, so I've got to make a change. I think if I could just get a streak going and stop the sugar roller coaster, I might...
Yesterday Hostess filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. I suggest one of the following responses: "Thank goodness. If we can finally get rid of that junk food, so much the better." "Quick, go out and eat some Hostess snack cakes. It's for the good of the American economy!"...
That cake was so good (yellow cake with lemon filling). I've decided that all my birthday cakes for the rest of my life have to come from Central Continental Bakery in Mt. Prospect, Illinois USA. I had to make that long drive just hours after a record-breaking...
Yesterday my friend Gina (the one who gave me the great advice on the wedding I'm going to) had a graduation party. Gina, congratulations on joining the ranks of the masters degree holders (ahem). I enjoyed making her graduation cake. She likes different kinds of...
Because we weren't conflating food with emotional fulfillment enough.
So I had a rough summer, a not-much-better trip to South America and came back feeling more depressed than ever. I ate a lot. By the end of September, I had begun to pull out of it. I got back to my healthy eating habits. I started to lose the weight I put on in the...
I am not a vegetarian. I have never been a vegetarian. I have been friends with vegetarians, lived among them and even dated them, but I have never, ever joined them in their meatless way of eating. Yet people think I am one. Friends who have known me for years, who...
Here is how I have spent the past two weeks, since returning from two weeks in South America: 1. Rehydrating with water and fruit juice. 2. Feeling weak and wimpy after two weeks of not only skipping my gym workouts, but being in high altitude areas that required me...
Good news: it looks like Bob will be home Monday night. Bad news: when I called the in-patient rehab center a month ago and asked what items I should buy for Bob's convalescence, the admissions officer reassured me that the physical therapist would order those items...
Since the last time I posted, my doctor told me to cut out even the few fruits I was allowed to eat. I spent three weeks eating nothing but vegetables, meat, eggs, nuts and beans. At least I could still have oils and spices and herbs. She's now allowed me to have one...
My Easter memories are of wanting this holiday to be as big and bright as Christmas, but it never was. Maybe part of the reason Easter has never been as big as Christmas is that Easter coincides with the spring solstice and Christmas coincides with the winter solstice...
Previous post on food & fat: Fat again, naturally Disclaimer: since I've become properly obese, I re-read these old posts and see my body dysmorphia and obsession with food and weight. It's sad to me now. Do I have that Seinfeld quote right? I'm remembering Kramer...