a recipe: miso soup with clams

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Miso Soup with Clams is one of those special foods – simple and quiet and humble, but also elegant in its simplicity.   Sometimes the best dishes are the simplest.  In our home, broths and stocks form the foundation of many of our meals, and with good reason.  Broths and stocks are potently rich sources of trace [...]

What Veg*ns Can Learn from Traditional Foods

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While the traditional foods movement seems to focus heavily on the inclusion of high-quality, pasture-raised meat and dairy products and is, indeed, a largely animal food-based diet, that doesn’t meant that it offers no guidance or dietary wisdom for vegetarians. Indeed, there’s a lot that vegetarians can glean from the traditional foods movement and, in many ways, the practices advocated by traditional foods enthusiasts and organizations like the Weston A Price Foundation and the Price Pottenger Nutrition Foundation might prove even more important for vegetarians and vegans who rely on grains and legumes for much of their foods. From soaking and souring grains and legumes to fermenting veggies and eating healthy fats, here’s five things that vegetarians can learn from the traditional foods movement.

28 Days of Real Food: Week #4 and Week #3 Re-cap

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We’re on our last week of the challenge to eat real food for 28 days!  Are you still with me?  Are you enjoying sourdough breads and wholesome natural yogurts?  Are you celebrating wholesome, healthy fats in all their nutrient-dense glory?  Now’s the time to sit back, relax and evaluate the week. Did you miss an [...]

10 New Year’s Resolutions That’ll Do You Good

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1. Give up refined foods: sugars, oils and flours. The single most effective thing you can do for your health in the new year is simple: remove all refined foods from your cupboards.  Give them up.  Just like that.  Yes, you may have paid good money for that bag of sugar, the gallon of vegetable [...]

Ohio Ballot Could Ordain Factory Farming

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This year, Ohio voters are faced with a monumental decision regarding the safety of their food supply. Issue #2 on the ballot would establish a Livestock Advisory Board and give that board free reign to design, establish and implement standards of care for livestock and poultry. Ostensibly, such a measure sounds like a good thing. [...]

Traditional Foods in a Nutshell

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The last few days, Nourished Kitchen has experienced a spike in readership, and I want to welcome all those new readers to the site with a back-to-basics approach to Traditional Foods.   This is a print it out and pin it to your fridge kind of post, and even those readers who’ve been with the [...]