Reviving Traditional Foods
If you had two girls under the age of two, and your husband, a fighter pilot, was flying cover during a war in Iraq, would you be thinking about converting your diet to organic, whole foods? I wasn’t. My life had enough stress without another distraction. But, that’s what happened in 2003. Daily Migraines and [...]
I first happened across Nourishing Our Children – a not-for-profit educational campaign of the San Francisco Chapter of the Weston A Price Foundation at the first Wise Traditions Conference I attended a few years ago. It was clear to me then that the campaign’s founder – Sandrine Hahn, had a deep-rooted and very tender love [...]
I am delighted that Jenny McGruther has invited me as a guest blogger for Nourished Kitchen! My name is Sandrine Hahn and I founded and lead Nourishing Our Children, an educational initiative of the San Francisco Chapter of the Weston A Price Foundation. On the home page of our website, we pose the question, “Can [...]
Rawesome was raided again. In a multi-agency effort, the private natural foods buying club as well as a local farm was raided again as part of a year-long sting operation that ended with three arrests: one farmer, one chapter leader of the Weston A Price Foundation and one coordinator of a private natural foods buying club. [...]
Farm-to-table and plot-to-plate cooking is a culinary phenomenon in its own right and now, after years of writing about the beauty of fresh raw cream, the differences between CAFO beef and grass-fed and imploring readers and friends to take an interest in traditional foods, it’s finally happening. And why shouldn’t it? The food just [...]
Unexpected gardens, quiet and unassuming, are sprouting from patches and beds, abandoned lots and school yards across the country, and it seems a revolution is underway – a charming revolution, one that gives purpose to small children and the elderly and enriches the live of rich and poor alike. The sowing of a seed in [...]
Colorado residents who value agriculture within the state and who cherish local foods movement have an opportunity to act now in support of local farms and increased visibility for Colorado farmers markets. The Local Foods, Local Markets bill introduced by Colorado senator Gail Schwartz, will be voted on today and your immediate action is needed. [...]
That’s me in the left-hand corner of your screen, all cheery and eager and blissful. And that’s Ann Marie of Cheeseslave, Kelly of Kelly the Kitchen Kop and Kimberly of Harkeisonline, too – the real food blogs you should be reading if you aren’t already. You long-time real food lovers may remember that last year, I attended the conference with these [...]
Weston A Price, a Cleveland dentist who, when challenged by rampant tooth decay and the considerable physical degeneration of his patients, left his practice and traveled the world researching the dietary practices of peoples consuming processed foods and those consuming an unprocessed, native diet, and the non-profit nutritional advocacy group named in his honor – [...]
When we’re so focused on food, we can sometimes forget that what we put on our bodies matters almost as much as what we put in our bodies. After all, skin is the largest organ, and it absorbs everything: the smog from your morning commute, the sodium lauryl sulfate from your body wash, the methylparaben [...]
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