I love it when a company goes out of its way to right deceptive practices, especially when profits up against consumer health. Whole Foods Marketplace Inc. announced that it is raising the bar on organic skin care products, meaning that it will only carry items claiming to be organic that are actually organic and contain [...]
Reader question: What do you do during the summer months when it’s too hot to use the oven? One of my favorite summertime cooking solutions is to use a toaster oven! Seriously, I have a large toaster oven that fits a 2-quart Dutch oven easily, holds my 3-quart round oven beautifully, and even squeezes in [...]
One of the biggest bummers about becoming aware of the bisphenol-A (BPA) leaching out of plastic food containers and into our foods is realizing that all of our canned goods are sold in cans lined with BPA, too. There aren’t that many canned goods that we keep in our house anyway… various types of plain [...]
One of my friends recently started a backyard compost heap and raved to me about how much they’ve decreased their load at the curb on garbage day. Welcome to the wonderful world of composting, I told her. Where you don’t have to feel guilty when a vegetable rots in your fridge before you have a [...]
One of my friends recently took her 8-year old daughter in to see a dermatologist about the small white bumps that had appeared on her cheeks. I was horrified when she emerged with a prescription for Acutane. Putting an 8-year old on Acutane, a serious acne medication whose side effects include photosensitivity (easily sunburned), depression, [...]
I wasn’t surprised when I noticed that I had become lactose-intolerant when I was 21. After all, my sister had been lactose-intolerant since birth and my mother had been off of milk since she made the connection in her years ago that milk products made her quite uncomfortable. Bloating, gassiness, explosive diarreah, constipation, headache… these [...]
Reader question: I only have gas rings and no oven (but bought your book anyway as I like the idea); do you have any idea if I can use the recipes in a Dutch oven but by using the stove top rather than an oven? – Kereebler, Dubai, United Arab Emirates Hi Kereebler! I’m psyched [...]
Our cat has been diagnosed with Feline Chronic Renal Failure (Feline CRF) but so far we’ve managed to halt the disease with just a couple of natural supplements to her food. It started when we noticed that Blue, a 13-year old Russian Blue, was peeing all over the house. She had done this once before, [...]
