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Category Archives: Family

Thanksgiving cooking is pretty stressful. This is probably the biggest meal you will cook all year, and the time when a lot of people are cooking things they don’t normally cook under stressful conditions, and with a timer running!  It is also when you have the opportunity to expose your loved ones to illness if […]

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I have a lot of barley in my pantry, no doubt the result of poor inventory procedures… So I’m making some more soup.  It has gotten quite cold, quite fast here, and soup will warm my hands and belly.  Like a lot of people, I grew up on Campbell’s soup, occasionally we’d get Progresso, if […]

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Since the late 1970’s America has been on a quest to eradicate fat from our diets as a way to remove it from our middles, and at the forefront of that quest was a low fat diet. What this meant for us was replacing animal fats with vegetable fats, hydrogenating fats, using increased amounts of […]

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Last week I was invited to a Farmtable Lunch here in Philadelphia at Real Food Works. Real Food Works is a business unlike anything else I’ve encountered before. It is owned and operated by Lucinda Duncalfe, and clearly an outgrowth of her passion and commitment to healthy eating.   They offer subscriptions to people to […]

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