Category: Blessing the Hands that Feed Us

A friend is in from out of town and I wanted to visit before she left. “Let’s have breakfast.” “No can-do on my 10 mile diet, why don’t you come to my house and I’ll make you breakfast?” But the next moment I was wondering …

I went into our loaded-to-the-gills super market yesterday to buy a battery and was flooded with memories of just 4 weeks ago when I would walk in the door once a week after my improv class, grab a basket and make a quick light-hearted (not …

I woke after a late afternoon nap hungry and cold. When you live alone no one has been cooking dinner while you’ve been out (&) cold. You have to deal. Okay, let’s see. To get some hot food on a 10 mile diet there’s nothing …

Have you ever wondered in these last weeks how Tricia came to imagine a “Super Veggie Me” experiment and I came to say yes? A dozen other people had rejected her offer out of hand. “I can’t let go of ______ (fill in the blank). …

If this blog were music, I guess you could say I’m singing for my supper. At least I seem to be blogging for it. For this month, at least, it seems that Tricia and I are engaged in an equal exchange. She wakes up in …

Rounding the bend into week three, and thus seeing the end of September gleaming on the horizon, I wonder what will stick from this experiment in 10 mile eating. Or re-stick. I suspect I will never forget that just by eliminating grains and beans and …

In a money fixated world, local food is not a bargain unless it comes from your garden, and even then I’m sure I haven’t grown $400 worth of food (the cost of building and filling my beds this year).Well, as Tricia’s husband Kent has pointed …

Lesson Number One (repeat after me as many times as it takes to get through your thick skull): It’s not about me. This has been among my highest insights in my most expanded states of mind. It’s also clear that eating – however much it …

Last night I stumbled into the food salon at the TED talks online. If you don’t know www.ted.com I recommend it highly – rich brain candy (which is not fattening). Mark Bittman, the cookbook author and on-air chef (how many are there now?) told us …

I can’t tell you who provides me with milk because they are criminals. Yes, selling milk out your back door to neighbors who need it is illegal. Because some people have gotten sick due to unsanitary conditions at some farms (small and factory), all people …