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Splenda® Sucra-Highs and Sucralose: Miracle Sweetener or Cause of Leukemia?

  While millions around the world consume foods and beverages sweetened with Splenda (sucralose) with abandon, an accumulating body of research indicates that this synthetic chemical is far from safe...

Jun 15, 2013

What Do Your Food Cravings Reveal?

As a Chef and human, my relationship with food is complex and varied.  In one instance, food is my instrument.  As a kind of artist, food feeds my professional and inspirational needs and as such mus...

Jun 29, 2012

Namasteak: The Food/Yoga Connection

Most view food as the most important factor in getting or staying healthy. Of late, even the less nutritionally enlightened have begun to understand the importance of eating a clean, minimally proces...

Mar 22, 2014

Can The Slow Food Movement Cure The Fast Food Nation?

Food Should Be Good, Clean, and Fair... I was young, exceedingly light on Euros and on my first trip to Italy.   Despite my financial challenges, I had friends in high places.  When you’re traveling ...

Jun 22, 2012

Is Junk Food For The Poor Better Than Nothing?

Anyone behind me in line at the supermarket check-out would think me uncharitable.  The cashier asks,'Would you like to donate a meal to the X house for the poor?’  Naturally, it is deliberate that h...

Jun 12, 2012

Can We Eat Ourselves Out of the Globalization Dilemma?

When Vancouver couple Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon began their experiment - to eat only foods grown and produced within 100 miles of their home - they reported dubiety. This doubt was reflected in...

Jul 19, 2012

Eat Food You Love, Not Too Much Of It By Yourself...

A Philosophical Reflection on "Healthy Eating" Two tenets of being human are: avoid pain and seek pleasure. It is my observation that, as North Americans, we have twisted these into: ignore pain and...

Jun 10, 2012

Can We Shop The Organic Seismic Shift Into Existence?

Is sustainable food an all or nothing construct like truth or pregnancy?  If we do not, as consumers, buy 100% organic, 100% sustainably sourced food 100% of the time are we doomed to a fate of ill h...

May 27, 2012

amended slow food

  I was young, exceedingly light on Euros and on my first trip to Italy.   Despite my financial challenges, I had friends in high places.  When you’re traveling  'low end’ that  means  friends who are...

May 17, 2013

On the Veg of Reason

I take my responsibility as a writer very seriously.  If I deign to give advice, I do so with caution and qualification.  As may be obvious, one person's tip is another's tribulation.  If I give my o...

Sep 10, 2012

Kids Eat The Darndest Things... (Whether We Like It Or Not)

The most arduous experience of parenting for me has been weathering the unrelenting stream of shots fired by the seemingly tireless dilemma cannon. With every metaphorical cannonball coming at me at...

Aug 3, 2012