Ever wondered how to make coconut milk? No, not the tinned stuff; rather, have you ever wondered how to make truly fresh coconut milk? While tins of coconut milk do just fine – a compromise food that balances the traditional with the modern, the flavor of a true homemade coconut milk is unsurpassed. Take the [...]
What Veg*ns Can Learn from Traditional Foods
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.
Soy & Illinois Prisons: Tuskegee of the 21st Century
Beginning in 2003, shortly after notorious former governor of Illinois Rod Blagojevich took office, the Illinois prison system effected a change in the diet fed to their inmates. Hand-in-hand with agricultural giant Archers Daniel Midland – the illinois prison system converted the diet of prisoners to one with grossly high levels of soy – [...]



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