If you’re familiar with Korean food at all you have doubtless tried kimchi, as the condiment appears at just about every Korean meal. When I was in middle school my family lived in Korea for two years, so I developed a taste for kimchi and was eager to try my...
If you’re making your own yogurt, you can make your own whey by straining the yogurt through a thin dishcloth or cheesecloth layered over a colander placed over a bowl. The resulting yogurt will be thicker like Greek yogurt, or if you leave it long enough will...
Today as I barreled down the road on my “leisurely” walk, the story of the Missionary and his African guides came to mind.On his first trip to Africa to set up a mission in a remote portion of the country, a young, driven missionary met his guides in town....
In addition to being an excellent natural sweetener and far superior in taste and quality to knock-off grocery store syrup, real maple syrup offers excellent health benefits. A mere two teaspoons (and don’t tell me that’s all you put on your pancakes!) of...
Maple syrup is a nourishing whole food and is a great addition to your organic cooking arsenal. When you buy real maple syrup from local producers, you not only improve your family’s diet, you also support sustainable farming. Eat Local! Arugula and Pear Salad...
A simple search on the Internet with this question brings up some of the most amazing and incorrect answers imaginable. I read articles that told how there were two different processes for making syrup and that the process used for making A syrup stripped it of all of...
If you only own one book about the natural/organic/whole food lifestyle, Nourishing Traditions should be that book! It is an indispensable resource for organic cooking and natural living. Sally Fallon of the Weston A. Price Foundation wrote the book, which includes...
If you haven’t yet seen Time Magazine’s recent cover article The Real Cost of Cheap Food (August 31, 2009 issue), I would recommend it to you. I thought the article was well done for the mainstream press, and although many of the statistics and facts cited...
Maple Syrup begins as sap in a maple tree. The sap is harvested in the spring when temperatures rise into the 40s during the day and cool off into the 20s at night. It takes a very special place for the conditions to be just right. The sugaring season, as it is...
There are times when I get so disappointed in the success of media hype and food masquerading that I could just… scream. Not much is sadder that the marketing campaign against maple syrup and how we have been duped into believing that the imitation is better...
