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 [...]
Paleo Life in a Nutshell
May 20, 2009 By 9 Comments
As my long-time readers know, we do not follow a paleolithic or primal diet at Nourished Kitchen (I just can’t give up fresh cream!), but I value the insights gleaned from this lifestyle choice and believe it has enormous and calculable value to a modern population. What is comes down to is this: for [...]
Fermented Food: Benefits of Lactic Acid Fermentation
March 2, 2009 By 42 Comments
Fermented food, enjoyed across the globe, conveys health benefits through lactic acid fermentation. The fermentation process can transform the flavor of food from the plain and mundane to a mouth-puckering sourness enlivened by colonies of beneficial bacteria and enhanced micronutrients. While fermented food like yogurt, sauerkraut and kefir are well-known many other lesser-known foods also [...]
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