Remember those days when the margarine advocates swore death and damnation on butter and the world went ballistic, only to discover that it was a marketing strategy by the margarine camp and all food connoisseurs were caught red-faced and red-handed with the cookie jar stripped of all decency. Long gone are the days when chicken sparerib, applebutter, clam chowder, bacon or salt pork and the gazillion of international culinary delights, either fried, fresh or frozen, could, innocently, light up a family dinner table.
(Don't you just love Mark Twain's expression: "Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education." ) In our quest for eternal life and happiness, we made food a science, and we introduced concepts such as antioxidants, saturated fat, omega-3 fatty acids, carbohydrates, polyphenols, folic acid, gluten, probiotics. Our lives centers around the theory and practice of culinary mastery. Constant renewal to sustain balance in nature, cannot be sidestepped by man in his infinite self-absorbed thanatophobia, but by golly, do we TRY! Get reacquainted with oxidation in the greater scheme of things. More an article than a review, but thanks for reading it.ĭid you know about the neurons in your stomach? Have you gotten over your incommoded phobia with death: defying, defeating and fighting it, then get back to learning and observe the reason why your brain is actually in your stomach. No snacks, no seconds, no sweets, except on days that begin with S.
Limit your snacks to unprocessed snack food. Serve a proper portion and don’t go back for seconds.īreakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, dinner like a pauperĪfter lunch, sleep awhile, after dinner, walk a mile. Spend as much time enjoying the meal as it took to prepare it. If you are not hungry enough to eat an apple, you are not hungry. Regard nontraditional foods with skepticism.Įat when you are hungry, not when you are board. The whiter the bread, the sooner you will be dead.Įat all the junk food you want as long as you cook it yourself.īe the kind of person who takes supplements-then skip the supplements.Įat more like the French. (Think Big Mac, Cheetos or Pringles.)Įat animals that have themselves eaten well. It’s not food if it’s called the same thing in every language.
It’s not food if it arrived through the window of your car I wouldn’t pay the $11.00 price for this book, but it was fun to get from the library and read.Īvoid foods you see advertised on televisionĮat only foods that have been cooked by humans A tiny book-I read it in the span of the bus ride downtown to my mother’s house.
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