Food Self-Sufficiency

As I type this, I’m gazing out my window for the second day in a row at over 6 inches of snow that’s fallen. It’s beautiful and fun, obviously. But since I live on a steep hill, it also comes with some challenges. Yesterday, when the storm started, I made a quip on my personal […]

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Fan Mail

I received a letter today and I thought I’d share the correspondence. Not to embarrass anybody or anything, but because someone took the time to send me an honest account from their perspective and I responded in kind. Letters like this get to the heart of what we’re doing and why. We don’t have all […]

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Paleo for the Hard Times

Hey, it happens to the best of us. We talk, think, and dream about food all day long. We prize its healing and mouth-watering qualities. But even those of us who love food dearly hit ruts. This year, a mildly difficult spring turned into a personally challenging summer. After enduring a scary illness for my […]

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Paleo Books For Your Reading Pleasure

Paleo bookshelves everywhere are filling up with all the new titles out now. Lots of smart folks out there are sharing their ancestral health knowledge and experiences for our benefit and spreading the message of good health. Here are a few I’ve checked out that you might find useful. All three are excellent additions to […]

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Review: Paleo Indulgences

I love going to the mailbox. You just never know what’s lurking in there. So imagine my surprise to find a cookbook that wasn’t even available to the general public yet! It was like Christmas in September. But let me back up for a second. I do some marketing work, so I’ve been watching Paleo’s […]

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Makin’ Bacon: Part 2

Let’s imagine that we have a time machine and 7-10 days have passed and not just two. You followed the directions for curing the pork belly and it’s been hanging out in your fridge with you flipping it every other day. Now it’s time to smoke it. But you don’t have a smoker. What to […]

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Makin’ Bacon: Part 1

Hey guys! Good to see you again. It’s been awhile, hasn’t it? Since Karen had to go and take a little vacation, I thought I’d stop by and tell you all about my recent adventure of making my own bacon. Oh yes, you heard me right. I made my own bacon. And not in that […]

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Do or Do Not, There is No Try.

I’m about to get all Yoda on you. I’ve talked about a few of these topics before, but they’re coming together in my mind and have been reemerging frequently. So welcome to my stream-of-consciousness. We are a species hell bent on duality: this, not that. I am me, you are you. I like this, I […]

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Knock, knock. Who’s there? Whole30.

Wow, that came up quick. Let’s all have a moment of silence for 2011’s September, because it had a short, fast life. October is coming, and I’m on the record as saying that I would start a Whole30 in October (see details here). So why am I so worried? Well, you should know this about […]

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Quick Link: Pan Sauces

The San Francisco Chronicle has a piece today about making pan sauces out of the leftover tasty bits left in the pan after sautéing a hunk of meat. Two of the recipes there contain flour, though I suspect the first one with cod could be subbed out for coconut or almond flour. But it’s the […]

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