Growing up, soups were the foundation of most lunches and suppers, and my brothers and I loved them. Well, that is except during the blazing temperatures of the summer when my Mother still made her soup, and we ate them, complained like children, even into our teens, but we ate them and really, we loved […]
Archives for January 2013
Soups
Soylent Blues
The spoonful of sugar that helps the medicine go down is toxic. According to Michael Pollan, “We are processed corn, walking.” Based on carbon-13 isotopes in our flesh and our hair, we North Americans “look like corn chips with legs.” Corn is the soylent yellow of our day; corn is people! The Franken-wheat we love […]
Growing Up “Husky”
Just like everybody else, my sense of myself was formed by my upbringing. As explored on this week’s Real Life Survival Guide, we are all conditioned to eat in ways that can really wreck our perspective when it comes to what we eat… Growing up in mid 20th Century whitelandia (the suburbs of New York […]
Episode 69: Healthy Eating
As we rounded the corner in to 2013, my thoughts turned from the food I had been eating during the holidays to the food I’ve been eating during the football playoffs, and I figured it was a good time to talk about what we put in our bodies on a daily basis. For this conversation, […]