Happy Food Day 2014! I’m very committed to eating healthy food, but also making it taste great. So I had to join in on this day celebrating real food, and share 12 healthy favorites for #FoodDay2014. For more healthy Food Day ideas, you can check out 25 Healthy Vegetarian Recipes for #FoodDay2015. Good, healthy food means…
Grilled Burgers with Garlicky Arugula #SundaySupper
When I saw the “unprocessed” theme for this week’s Sunday Supper, I immediately signed up. I’m a big proponent of eating “real food”, as opposed to food-like substances. as Michael Pollan puts it. I was originally inspired to make Grilled Burgers with Garlicky Arugula when I had an abundance of veggies from our weekly community…
In Defense of Food–and Community
My interest in cooking (and eating) led me to read In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan, yet I was struck by how some of the societal factors that require food to be defended also contribute to the declining social capital we address here at SCI. Pollan’s basic plot, picking up where he left off…
The 5 Ingredients Test
I finshed Michael Pollan’s In Defense of Food on the plane yesterday. I’ll certainly be treating it more fully here, but one thing that I thought about today while shopping at Whole Foods was his “5 ingredients” test. His high-level advice is the subtitle of his book is “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”…