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Monthly Archives: November 2008
Animal, vegetable, kingsoliver
Just finished reading Animal Vegetable Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver and her family. It was okay…had some interesting facts and stories, but a bit too Martha Stewart goes farmer for me. She along with her family left Tucson and the desert, … Continue reading
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believe the mediterranean hype
I just got back from a two-week Mediterranean diet binge. This type of “diet”, largely defined and studied from populations of Greece and Southern Italy, consists of: • abundant plant foods and fresh fruit • olive oil as the principal … Continue reading
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“we shouldn’t have gone to italy”
Derek and I just ended a two-week gastronomic affair with Italy. We were first in Torino for the Slow Food/Salone del Gusto food conference. Then a stop off to Cinque Terre and onto Roma for six days of melt in … Continue reading
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