While most of our garden is yet to be planted, what’s in the ground is doing well. We’ll be eating lettuce any day. The leaves are about 3″ tall. I’m sure you know you can cut lettuce and it will regrow from the roots. Jim decided to try a network of sticks (from pruning the…
In the early 1960s, the USA placed a trade embargo on Cuba due to the island’s close ties with the Soviet Union. The embargo wasn’t lifted when the Berlin Wall fell and, with it, trade between the USSR and Cuba. 80% of trade ended pretty much overnight. How has Cuba been managing to feed itself…
Individuals and communities are fighting for the right to make their own food choices. Isn’t that a little backwards? How did this right get taken away from us in the first place? Slowly but surely, it has disintegrated until consumers have few choices. Various restrictive laws around the “civilized” world include the inability to legally…
Eating like a caveman has become a hot new diet trend. The Paleo (short for Paleolithic) diet sends us back to our hunter-gatherer roots for foodie inspiration. We’re encouraged to eat grass-fed meat and plenty of vegetables, fruits, and seeds. Processed foods are given the axe–that’s anything with refined sugar or grain, whether gluten-free or…
Interested in switching some of your baking to be sweetened with honey rather than sugar? Here are some guidelines for making the exchange. 1. Substitute 1 cup honey for 1 cup white sugar, but reduce liquids elsewhere by 1/4 cup. 2. Substitute 7/8 cup honey plus 2 tablespoons molasses for 1 cup brown sugar, but…
What’s so great about honey? Why not simply use sugar, as it’s definitely cheaper and less messy to use? Well, there are a few good reasons: 1. Honey is much less refined than sugar 2. Honey is richer in minerals and vitamins 3. Honey is naturally antibacterial and antifungal 4. Honey is soothing and healing…