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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Recipe: Blackberry BBQ Sauce

What are you up to this fine weekend? I’m heading for the hills for my first backpacking trip in 3 years with a lovely group of ladies. And yes, we’re lugging in beer and inflatables for floating in the lake. We’re fancy that way. If your plans include grilling, I’ve got something for you to […]

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Meat According to the Environmental Working Group

Let me start with the disclaimer that I appreciate and respect the work of the Environmental Working Group. They do good work informing the public and lobbying official channels for a safer world, namely on topics like BPA, sunscreens, and personal care products and cosmetics. I recommended them myself as a great resource to find […]

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Here’s What I Think of Your Meatless Mondays

The NY Times recently featured Aspen, Colorado’s Meatless Mondays campaign (here). Allegedly, this all got started with Michael Pollan’s assertion that if all Americans went meatless one day a week, it would remove the greenhouse gas equivalent of 30-40 million cars a year. And if you know anything about Aspen, you know it’s crawling with […]

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Quick Links: The Gourmet Butcher Trend

The San Francisco Bay Area has another reason why they’re the foodie center of the universe. Aaron Rocchino (formerly of Chez Panisse) and his wife Monica are opening The Local Butcher Shop in Berkeley’s Gourmet Ghetto. The butcher shop will feature whole animals sourced directly from farms, none of which are further than 150 miles […]

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Quick Links: Facebook CEO Only Eats It if He Kills It

Wow, and I thought I was committed to my diet. Apparently, Mark Zuckerberg’s challenge to himself this year is to eat only meat that he himself has killed: I started thinking about this last year when I had a pig roast at my house. A bunch of people told me that even though they loved […]

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“I Could Never Eat All That Meat!” Part 2

After posting my thoughts (here for Part 1) on this common comment, I thought of more. So let’s keep going, shall we? 5) They think meat is disgusting and unhealthy. I remember the look on my husband’s face when I ordered chicken on the bone at a restaurant years ago. I was happily gnawing away […]

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“I Could Never Eat All That Meat!”

Allow me a rant, if you will. I can’t stand it when someone says this to me. I know it’s not their fault. But it pisses me off for several reasons: It assumes that I’m a hedonist who loves nothing more than to gorge myself on gluttonous, luxuriant meat. It assumes that this decision was […]

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Quick Links: Can’t We All Just Get Along?

Chandelle over at Chicken Tender posted a must-read (here) on the judgments that get passed around the real food community. For my part, as soon as I went Primal, I saw the similarities between vegans—especially raw—and my chosen WOE. Snacking on raw macadamia nuts, the use of coconut products, a complete lack of processed foods. […]

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Quick Links: Joel Salatin in Yes! Magazine

If you’ve read Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma or seen the film Food, Inc., then you’re familiar with Joel Salatin and his Polyface Farm. This is a man who does it right. Go here for a great interview on what it means to be humane and eat animals. What I really loved about this piece […]

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