American Cheese

Today when I was about to order my typical bunless grass-fed burger, I couldn’t help but to overhear what the customer in front of me was asking for. The cook asked if he’d like the works; lettuce, tomato, onion, pickles, bacon & cheese to which the customer responded, “I’d like cheese…cheddar, please”.   Alas, there […]

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Dying from Dye

A bowl of high-sugar, multi-colored grain pellets marketed as breakfast cereal, with a silly, cartoon rabbit on the package.  A dish of fluorescent orange macaroni and ‘cheese’ (although, many packaged brands don’t actually even have real cheese in the ingredients…) with the image of Spiderman on the box.  A chilled glass of Kool-Aid to provide ‘refreshment’ […]

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No Tamari, Please

It happened again today. I was dining at a Japanese restaurant with a friend, very much in the mood for sashimi, and I gave the usual briefing to the server- no gluten, so soy, no dairy. She assured me the items I’d selected would, indeed, be free of all of the above, (not too hard […]

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