Like many sensible people, Jack Arnott is a mycophobe — someone who has a so-called irrational fear of mushrooms. And, as he writes in the Guardian, “Invasion of the mushrooms”, the enemy is upon us. It’s a bad time of year for me; in fact, according to some sources, my pain could be stretching [...]
Big article in the LA Times on “The power of produce” Whether it fights cancer depends on which you eat, how you eat it — and your genes. Fruits and vegetables are packed with vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, fiber and scores of phytochemicals that scientists are just beginning to understand, and studies [...]
The Accidental Hedonist has an article today — What’s Missing from this Picture? — about the seedy underbelly that is an avocadoless guacamole dip, made by Mission, and containing the rather peculiar additional note on its label ‘with garden vegetables.’ By which they mean, ’somebody thought about garden vegetables for a nanosecond while typesetting this [...]
There is a famous ‘prayer’ in the novel Dune by Frank Herbert, called the Bene Gesserit ‘Litany Against Fear’. When I first read the book as a teenager, this passage stuck with me — as I think it does with a lot of people. Here’s how one version of it goes: ‘I must not fear. Fear [...]
The title of this post is a line from a 1996 article on Slate, The Omnivore: Learning to eat everything, by Jeffrey Steingarten. Reading it was one of the sparks that inspired this effort of mine and, by extension, this site, although I didn’t happen across the article until a year ago or so. ‘By [...]
