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Cooking With Numbers: Celebrate 11/11/11 With Food

Tomorrow is a double holiday, a big one. Veterans Day is important enough, but add in “11/11/11” and we have something that doesn’t come around every year. The amount of significance you place on tomorrow’s numeric “holiday” may depend on…

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Why Don’t We Eat Fruits and Veggies?

A poll I came across in USA Today asked 1300 adults “why we don’t fill half our plates with fruits and vegetables,” per the new MyPlate recommendations. Reasons listed are: They are too expensive (30%) They don’t pair well with…

Posted in Food Articles, Philosophies, Raw Food, Uncategorized

Juicy Posts 1: Jumping Into Juice

Last week, in need of an immediate health boost (long story) we finally got into juicing as we’ve been planning for awhile. Why? Vegetables are good Obviously. Let’s shift the balance. Fruit too. Raw is good Sometimes the best cooking…

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Do You Grow Ignore-ganic Produce?

Ignore-ganic Produce: Fruits and vegetables which are chemical-free simply as a result of you doing nothing. They’re my personal specialty. Case in point: this lovely bowl of undersized, pockmarked, misshapen apples from our yard that my toddler decided to make…

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What Does “Spinning” Mean in The Spinning Cook?

I’m so glad you asked. To me it’s three things: a bad state of crazy, a good state of flow, and the process to get there. Struggles feel like spinning On bad parenting days I feel dizzy and disoriented, bored…

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