Reviving Traditional Foods
This giveaway is now closed, and the winner is Jenn W who’ll be crocking up a batch of beet sauetkraut in no time! In the mean time, Cultures for Health is offering Nourished Kitchen readers a great discount. . I love fermentation, the whole entire process: the mysterious and nearly magical way invisible microbes transform [...]
Sour pickles are a mainstay at our summer dinner table. Naturally fermented, sour pickles are rich in beneficial bacteria and food enzymes, offering a dairy-free source of probiotics. Vinegar pickles lack the beneficial bacteria and many of the heat-sensitive vitamins found in traditional, sour pickles. You see, real pickles are naturally fermented through [...]
We hear it all the time (and I say it plenty!): eat your yogurt for probiotics. But if you choose not to eat dairy foods or cannot tolerate them, finding dairy-free probiotic foods can pose more of a challenge; however, that doesn’t have to be the case. Indeed, there are many, many dairy-free [...]
I always look forward to August. The tomatoes and melons and cucumbers are finally coming into season here when most of the country has been enjoying these summer foods for at least a month. Beyond the serpentine Armenian cucumbers and the cute lemon cucumbers, I love the pickling cucumbers most and they are [...]
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Jenny McGruther is a wife, mother and cooking instructor specializing in real and traditional foods. Her work has been featured on CNN, the Globe & Mail, the Atlantic, the Christian Science Monitor, Denver Post and WebMD. Click here to learn more.
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