Nutritional Tips

Wait a minute.  Salad dressing?  Thinking that was something that had to be kicked to the curb when you did your Paleo kitchen clean out? Not necessarily. Certainly, many of the commercially prepared varieties are not something we’d want to consume; often laden with corn syrup, all sorts of unhealthy oils ranging from partially hydrogenated […]

The first time I heard the word, Umami, it was in the context of a burger joint that was across from my hair salon, in Santa Monica. The word, though, goes back much further than the restaurant. According to Wikipedia, Umami is a savory taste which is one of the five basic tastes, together with […]

An article in the Times yesterday by Mark Bittman has got me thinking.   He wrote about how, based on a recent cross country road trip, he feels that there are some encouraging trends taking place, including: “Supermarkets selling better food. Alternatives to standard fare are turning up in unlikely restaurants. Small towns and the […]

Incredible. This morning on NPR, I was overjoyed to hear John Durant speaking about the Paleo diet.   Of course, the story offered a couple of different viewpoints, but the bottom line was that it was excellent to hear, once again, more coverage of Paleo on a national platform. I liked the fact that even […]